Now HERE'S a Fascinating Word

[Mission]

accismus (ak-SIZ-muhs) noun - Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.

[Etymology: Greek akkismos (coyness or affectation)]

[Rogue Mermaid]

But can you use it in a sentence?

[blackjohn]

Uhhh... is that just a word for "human nature"?

[Mission]

"It doesn't really interest me to be able to use interesting words," he said with accismus.

Actually, in conversation, I only use about a third to half the words I use when writing. I do this for two reasons. 1) When speaking I am not always exactly sure I am using the world precisely as I mean to and 2) most people don't understand what I'm saying when I use them.

[Diego Santana de la Vega]

But can you use it in a sentence?

Mission as much as he tried and tried was accismus about starting the thread announcing the monster need to prove his vocabulary wizardry.

[Mission]

I had never actually heard of this word before today. I have three or four others I got in Word-A-Day that I found similarly interesting. Think of it as the pyrate's own vocabulary builder. (If you think of it at all.)

[Mission]

godwottery (god-WOT-uhr-ee) noun 1. Gardening marked by an affected and elaborate style. 2. Affected use of archaic language.

The Travelocity gnome has apparently left his life living amidst the godwottery behind to make a quick buck.

[Cpt Sophia M Eisley]

Godwottery sounds a like a word J K Rowling might have made up for her novels.

[Mission]

I know, ain't it cool? I had never heard of that when I read it either. It also sounds like something they'd use on NPR.

[Cpt Sophia M Eisley]

...during "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me", perhaps. That be a good stumper for their trivia, though most of what they ask centers around current events. :)

[Mission]

I don't actually listen to NPR anymore (it leans so farrrrr left), but I did notice when I listened to it that they are more erudite than most media outlets. (And perhaps a tad supercilious as well.)

Hinkypunks. That's a cool word that Rawlings made up (I think she made it up).

[Cpt Sophia M Eisley]

I agree with your thoughts on NPR, though I do like to listen once in a while to shows that I feel aren't aren't supercilious as you noted (mainly for Prairie Home Companion). That's a show that's not afraid to laugh at itself, in an understated sort of way (i.e. the Ketchup Advisory Board).

[Mission]

You know, I have never heard the Prarie Home Companion. I used to listen to a 2 hour jazz show that came on before the news and I'd sometimes listen to the news.

[Cpt Sophia M Eisley]

PHC is pretty good. I remember Matt Groening poking fun at it during an episode of the Simpsons prior to me taking the time to listen to it. I like it though. It's subdued humor, and has some very good skits (the private investigator bit, called Guy Noir is very well done).

I used to listen to NPR in Colorado alot (they weren't so far left that I couldn't stand it), as they had a good mix of shows, news, and music (classical, jazz, new age with Hearts of Space, etc). Within the past year or so, they even split the stations (a very good move), to one with all news, and the other with all music and shows. I catch the latter station on the 'net when I focus on my studies.

Indeed, I'm thinking hinkypunk might be a Rowlingism.

[Ransom]

godwottery (god-WOT-uhr-ee) noun 1. Gardening marked by an affected and elaborate style. 2. Affected use of archaic language.

Godwattery! That's what I say the next morning after having worked hard in the garden all the previous day, and am feeling like I've been hit by a mack truck.

[Mission]

I was greatly disappointed not to be able to find the word "bonky" in any online dictionary. (And yet I was able to use it in a sentence today, so I believe I understand the definition... well, at least I understand the idea, but I don't feel I can accurately give it.) So instead...

Wonky (wonk-ee) adjective (informal) 1. shaky, weak or unsatisfactory 2. not straight or level

Some of the results of my engineering work on my bathroom mirror are a tad wonky.

[Duchess]

Hey, just because I have an enormous vocabulary doesn't mean I'm beyond making up new words or new uses for old ones!

Long live the bonkiness.

[hitman]

"It doesn't really interest me to be able to use interesting words," he said with accismus.

Actually, in conversation, I only use about a third to half the words I use when writing. I do this for two reasons. 1) When speaking I am not always exactly sure I am using the world precisely as I mean to and 2) most people don't understand what I'm saying when I use them.

Thats seems to me odd Mission. To be honest I am a much better story teller than writer but I scratch that praticular itch with short stories I share amongst my friends (those who will look past my spelling grammer and punctuation errors). I find my vocabulary actually remains my own. I normally write from a first person perspective and with the exception of period statments talk and think as I would. Pherhaps this is due to why I write. Witch I find mostly to answer questions I have. As an example I wrote a story about and ECW soldier found in a mass grave body number 16. I wanted to know what he thought saw did how he lived so I made it up. There are other stories I wanna write but keep running into trouble with one about the German Zepplin Mission to Africa during WW1 the damn near obliguatory World War two alt. history and so forth but always to answer a question. Must be just me.

[Jonathan Hawks]

Ell, the only real word ta me be ARR!!!! Intrestin aint it?

[Mission]

Ell, the only real word ta me be ARR!!!! Intrestin aint it?

That would make for very limited conversations, unless everyone around you used ARR in similar fashion. Kind of like the smurfs.

apposite (AP-uh-zit or uh-POZ-it) adjective [From Latin appositus] - Highly appropriate; relevant

It is apposite for folks on this board to read Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates when developing a re-enacting character.

[blackjohn]

Sorry Mission, it sounds too much like opposite.

[Mission]

It is apposite we posit an opposite approach to the composite closet problem.

(Long live bonkiness!)

[Diego Santana de la Vega]

Ell, the only real word ta me be ARR!!!! Intrestin aint it?

That would make for very limited conversations, unless everyone around you used ARR in similar fashion. Kind of like the smurfs.

apposite (AP-uh-zit or uh-POZ-it) adjective [From Latin appositus] - Highly appropriate; relevant

It is apposite for folks on this board to read Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates when developing a re-enacting character.

Arrrggghhhhh!

[blackjohn]

Riparian. That's a good word.

[Caraccioli]

While I have waded amongst it, I had never heard of the word "riparian" before today. However, a similar sounding word that I have always liked, is tangentally appropriate to the site and which I have actually used in conversation is:

riposte (rih-POST), noun 1. A quick thrust given after parrying an opponent's lunge in fencing. 2. A quick and effective reply by word or act.

Gregory McDonald's Inspector Flynn has an agile sense of humor making good use of odd connections and punchy ripostes.