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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: Word of the day |
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Refulgent.
Intensely bright, shiny, reflective; by extension, glamorous. Light bounces off the thing, and only grows brighter.
Its guardian slain, Link shielded his eyes as he approached the refulgent pyriform. _________________
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Are you a subscriber to AWAD? _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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my word of the day is "aglet" -- the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Nothing that structured; I just stumble across things.
Yes, aglets! I made a point of learning that when I was quite young, as people kept making a joke of how nobody knew what they were called. _________________
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: |
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i made a point to learn tittles when i was young for the same reason |
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aderack .
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:16 am Post subject: |
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I always pegged you for a tittle tale.
Pip, pip! _________________
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:19 am Post subject: |
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when we go to the pinball museum im going to bring a top hat and monocle and you have to wear it the whole time, okay? |
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aderack .
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I need Braid power so I can change my phrasing in live encounters as easily as on Internet forums. _________________
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: |
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i dont know what that means but i already have the top hat and monocle ready
do you want a incredibly classy walking stick too |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: |
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Oh, indubitably. Will it be long enough? _________________
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: |
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Here's my list of words I vow to use more:
refulgent
pyriform
fulsome
ecumenical
orthogonal
escarpment
insouciant
educe
coquettish
prosody
pareidolia
breviloquence
grandiloquent
schadenfreude
verfremdungseffekt
synecdoche
metonymy
unctuous
conflate
dysphemism
succor
elan
moiety
lucubration _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: |
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god you guys need to get a room _________________
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: |
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verfremdungseffekt?
how the hell do you pronounce that?
ver-frem-dung-seph-ekt?
can we shorten it to the verdasefx? _________________
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aderack .
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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It rhymes with "there them spoons collect". Accent on "them". _________________
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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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verfremdungseffekt
fer- frame - doong - effect |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Learn more one syllable words Aderack. They'll take you further! _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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aderack .
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: |
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What you say! _________________
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