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Save your valediction (she/her)
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Attending the multitudinous threads of the fastidiously-woven tapestry known as TLS, I descry a delectation for language shared by many of our members. Ergo I've ratiocinated that a dedicated space for the jollification of words might be valued.
DIS HEER IS A WORD-LOVER CLUB
Distinct from the spontaneous revelry we see elsewhere, this would be a place to properly solemnize the written word, words, and wordes when the moment strikes. For instance, there has been a recent hullabaloo in the Picture Discussion Thread. I shall share highlights:
By all means continue.
This sanctuary of lexemes should also be a place to share new words we have learned, as well as their definitions, much as one would dispense photographs of mammillae in a neighbouring club. I'll begin with an example many of us are familiar with, as it's one of the longest words in the english language:
floccinaucinihilipilification
/ˌfläksəˌnôsəˌnīˌhiləˌpiləfiˈkāSHən/
[flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuh n]
noun
1. the estimation of something as valueless (dictionary.com)
Etymology: Mostly latin. flocci, from floccus (a wisp) + nauci, from naucum (a trifle) + nihili, from nihil (nothing) + pili, from pilus (a hair) (all having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + -fication.
DIS HEER IS A WORD-LOVER CLUB
Distinct from the spontaneous revelry we see elsewhere, this would be a place to properly solemnize the written word, words, and wordes when the moment strikes. For instance, there has been a recent hullabaloo in the Picture Discussion Thread. I shall share highlights:
I look like a granite faced psycho, which admittedly fits better with how gravelly voiced and pauciloquent I am right now
...Sesquipedalians... Callipygian? Nullifidian? Solivagant? Peristeronic?
Gtfo with your concupiscence
...slitting people's throats might be sufficiently jaunty and fun.
By all means continue.
This sanctuary of lexemes should also be a place to share new words we have learned, as well as their definitions, much as one would dispense photographs of mammillae in a neighbouring club. I'll begin with an example many of us are familiar with, as it's one of the longest words in the english language:
floccinaucinihilipilification
/ˌfläksəˌnôsəˌnīˌhiləˌpiləfiˈkāSHən/
[flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuh n]
noun
1. the estimation of something as valueless (dictionary.com)
Etymology: Mostly latin. flocci, from floccus (a wisp) + nauci, from naucum (a trifle) + nihili, from nihil (nothing) + pili, from pilus (a hair) (all having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + -fication.
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and a truncated, misspelled form of hippopotamus, intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared; combined with phobia.
it reminded me of this book of mangled English I've had for forever by some dude who tried to translate Portuguese into English using a French-Portuguese phrasebook and a French-English dictionary. I couldn't find the book but I found a link online and someone might get a few giggles out of it, so: 
There are a a few stand out to me as funnier because they are the sort of things my brother has said, or would say 
