Bazinga. I know it's not a real word but it's pretty useful. If I had to pick a real word, It'd probably be Jabrone.
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Haha I do this too! I also like to throw in a few "yes, quite, of courses" in there as well.SteewpidZombie said:
OT: I can't really pick, but I am a fan of the word snarky
I'm a Scot so don't judge me but my favourite word is ****.
Not just because it's a swear but because using only four letters you can cause so much controversy and polarize every one around you. Also the way the word sounds, it starts sharp with the 'C' making a K sound, then the middle is drawing out with 'UUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN' and finally the end is sharp again - 'T' - adding to the controversy.
Not just because it's a swear but because using only four letters you can cause so much controversy and polarize every one around you. Also the way the word sounds, it starts sharp with the 'C' making a K sound, then the middle is drawing out with 'UUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN' and finally the end is sharp again - 'T' - adding to the controversy.
In English? Dumpling. Other than the fact that I fucking love dumplings, I'm not sure why I like the word so much.
In my native language, Finnish... Hyy (hoar, frost), rauta (iron), raastaa (grate) or saasta (filth).
And, by extension, I also like the compound word raastinrauta (grater, literally "grating iron").
In my native language, Finnish... Hyy (hoar, frost), rauta (iron), raastaa (grate) or saasta (filth).
And, by extension, I also like the compound word raastinrauta (grater, literally "grating iron").
Eh, not quite. Fenestration actually refers to windows, as in the placement and structure thereof; not of throwing people into them. Likewise, if something is fenestrated, it has windows or openings, usually many of them.Jaime_Wolf said:
OnT: I like the word rhotacism. It means the excessive use of the letter "R". And I also like the word bifurcate.
Eh, not quite. Fenestration actually also refers to throwing people in through windows (pretty obviously a backformation from "defenestration"). It's an absurdly rare usage, somewhat unsurprising given how rare "defenestration" already is, but it definitely exists.TehChef said:
I too would like to see that word used more often in general conversation.MasterOfWorlds said:
My favourite word has always been 'Delicious'
This: Epinephrine, gets my adrenalin pumping.
Also: Tautology, there's no need for redundancy.
And: Oxymoron, it got a bitter-sweet ring to it. (Also a pretty sweet punk-band)
Not to mention: Stuff, I can't live without stuff, and sometimes I just hate stuff.
Also: Tautology, there's no need for redundancy.
And: Oxymoron, it got a bitter-sweet ring to it. (Also a pretty sweet punk-band)
Not to mention: Stuff, I can't live without stuff, and sometimes I just hate stuff.
Really? Then that's a usage I've never heard before. So as not to seem like a smart-ass, I checked it against dictionary.com and they had no usage of it as a verb. I'm not trying to quibble, but it must be incredibly rare. Besides, I would think the verb form to be fenestrate, not fenestration. The latter just sounds like an adjective or noun.Jaime_Wolf said:
"Dragon"
Just because. It's fun to say at random even!
Though if pressed for something more artsy/intellectual, I'm partial to Syncopation and Aegis (a word that just...I dunno why, LOOKS cool).
Just because. It's fun to say at random even!
Though if pressed for something more artsy/intellectual, I'm partial to Syncopation and Aegis (a word that just...I dunno why, LOOKS cool).
Preface: It sounds like you might not need this, but it never hurts to repeat it for others (so if you don't need this, don't take my exasperation personally). Also, I need an image macro for this or something given how often I have to say it here.TehChef said:
Dictionaries are reference works. Dictionaries do not dictate what is and isn't a word or even what is and isn't a word in current use. They are often wrong. Treating a dictionary as definitive is like arguing that something doesn't exist because there isn't an entry for it in the encyclopedia. Dictionaries aren't unimpeachable either, they're filled with mistakes. In fact, the grammar employed by most English dictionaries is about two hundred years old. Modern linguists tend to find modern dictionaries embarassing. Similarly, people are so poorly educated on grammar (if you think you were taught grammar well in school, you weren't, you were taught grammar that's two-hundred years behind modern understandinging well in school) and language in general that they end up thinking of the dictionary as some sort of Language Bible.
More to the point, the usage is relatively rare and, this is sort of a wild guess, probably fairly new. You get it as a backformation from "defenestration": people hear "fenestration" without knowing what it means, they know what "defenestration" means from a history class earlier in life, and they assume that the meaning of "defenestration" is completely compositional. This is a really normal way for new words/new meanings of old words to enter languages. As for the syntactic category, that depends on what you mean by "noun" or "verb". "Fenestration" with this meaning is definitely derived from a "fenestrate" with a similar meaning, clearly a verb, with a nominal affix attached. Whether you want to say that it's a "noun" or a "verb" depends on whether you want to refer to the word as a modified verbal root or as a monolithic affixed nominal form.