Words you never use?

[hobbsyoyo]

There is a word that I frequently write but when I go to pronounce it I trip over it. It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't think of it.

 

[Patine]

I'd guess that far more people nowadays are familiar with chthonian because of Lovecraft and the game Call of Cthulhu than are aware of its Greek origins.

I'd be the reverse. I kind of turned on Lovecraft's work when I learned it was just a literary metaphor for a highly sexually-awkward (he found sex highly "physically disgusting" long after puberty and this came to affect his personal view of, as well as dealings with women), and racist and xenophobic world view. A highly troubled and bigoted, with repugnant REAL-LIFE social views, even for his day - he just wrote about tentacled horrors rather then take the soapbox or pulpit about it.

 

[AmazonQueen]

I'd be the reverse. I kind of turned on Lovecraft's work when I learned it was just a literary metaphor for a highly sexually-awkward (he found sex highly "physically disgusting" long after puberty and this came to affect his personal view of, as well as dealings with women), and racist and xenophobic world view. A highly troubled and bigoted, with repugnant REAL-LIFE social views, even for his day - he just wrote about tentacled horrors rather then take the soapbox or pulpit about it.

I agree that he was an awful person and a worse writer. That doesn't actually stop him being quite well-known.

 

[Gori the Grey]

There is a word that I frequently write but when I go to pronounce it I trip over it. It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't think of it.

I can't use oeuvre unselfconsciously in speech.

 

[Patine]

"Never," and, "always," unless I can back up the VERY high bar of validating their use (literally, ONE exception kills any argument or statement using them as a defining factor).

 

[Gori the Grey]

So you wouldn't say that you never use those words . . . that you always avoid them.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I try and avoid using the word pedantic but sometimes it's just apt. ;-)

 

[Patine]

So you wouldn't say that you never use those words . . . that you always avoid them.

I avoid those words unless I'm certain I can back them up before the absolutist and without error bar to make them accurate, or sometimes for rhetoric. And, as an unpublished fiction author, if I say "never," or "always," are applicable in my own fictional worlds, they are! But I very rarely tend to use them, and like to avoid doing so. There, happy?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I try and use the word pedantic but sometimes it's just apt. ;-)

try to

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Ruddy

Not entirely sure what it means. I think it's one of those flexible words that mean a bunch of things depending on the context. When I use the word bloody, it's generally a willful affectation.

Bugger/buggery

Can you tell I'm binging IT Crowd again?

try to

My favorite writing mistakes are the ones that completely flip around what I was trying to say.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Ruddy is a skin tone. Next time you make it out to Palmdale I'll demonstrate, especially if its like the end of summer when I take on the coloring of a dirty brick building.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, I usually don't press my luck
If I did, standing ready to pluck
Any word that offends, sir,
's the site's autocensor.
So here you won't hear me say

 

[EgonSpengler]

...duck?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I was thinkin' truck, but maybe duck I guess.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

heretofore
forthwith
delectable
dirigible
incorrigible
onomatopoeia

 

[cardgame]

don't forget wherewithal

 

[Timsup2nothin]

heretofore
forthwith
delectable
dirigible
incorrigible
onomatopoeia

I can see avoiding ten dollar words when a fifty center will do, but a dirigible is a dirigible. What else is there to say?

 

[Truthy]

indubitable
whilst
literally
scrumptious
refreshing
pleb
paradigm
empower
unpack
disrupt
agile
artisanal
adulting

(some of these are pet peeves, others are just words I don't use, but don't care if others do)

 

[Patine]

I can see avoiding ten dollar words when a fifty center will do, but a dirigible is a dirigible. What else is there to say?

No, it's a zeppelin.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I can see avoiding ten dollar words when a fifty center will do, but a dirigible is a dirigible. What else is there to say?

I do not find myself talking about them.