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Offline varoadking

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Favorite words
« Topic Start: March 09, 2017, 01:18:26 PM »

What are some of your favorites that maybe only you and Tibetan Monks might actually use on a regular basis?

AtBC has taught me many...but I've forgotten them all...  :icon_frown:


Offline mitlen

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #1: March 09, 2017, 01:35:39 PM »
What are some of your favorites that maybe only you and Tibetan Monks might actually use on a regular basis?

AtBC has taught me many...but I've forgotten them all...  :icon_frown:



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Offline dracnal

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #2: March 09, 2017, 01:55:17 PM »
I don't know about use regularly, but I do love the word Zarf.

When I was maybe 7 years old I was playing Scrabble against my 14 year old sister. I had basically no letters and was getting hammered in the game. So I played 'Zarf' with the Z on a triple word score. She reasonably and predictably called me on it, but I told her to check the dictionary.

Turns out, it is an actual word. The best example folks have likely seen would be the cardboard sleeves used at Starbucks. Essentially it's a frame with or w/o a handle designed to make it easier to hold a cup.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #3: March 09, 2017, 05:13:54 PM »
recalcitrant has always been one of my favorites.

definition- having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.

also: panopticon

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #4: March 09, 2017, 05:23:33 PM »
recalcitrant has always been one of my favorites.

definition- having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.



Ooh,  I like that one.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #5: March 09, 2017, 05:31:16 PM »
absquatulate (to leave quickly)

adamantine (unbreakable)

loquacious (talkative)

piffle

kumquat

weasel

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #6: March 09, 2017, 05:39:33 PM »
No love for embiggen?

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #7: March 09, 2017, 05:43:10 PM »
I actually use the word "Moreover" all the time.

Offline Natsinpwc

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #8: March 09, 2017, 05:51:11 PM »
Indubitably. 

Offline slhubic

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #9: March 09, 2017, 07:50:12 PM »
caustic.

Offline dcpatti

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #10: March 09, 2017, 08:33:44 PM »
Curmudgeon.

Offline HalfSmokes

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #11: March 09, 2017, 08:39:36 PM »
I actually use the word "Moreover" all the time.

Nevertheless is my compound word crutch

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #12: March 09, 2017, 09:18:51 PM »
Why


What are some of your favorites that maybe only you and Tibetan Monks might actually use on a regular basis?

AtBC has taught me many...but I've forgotten them all...  :icon_frown:



Offline skippy1999

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #13: March 09, 2017, 11:55:04 PM »
Behoove, I loved using that on my kids, gave whatever I was saying gravitas :lol:  I love saying things are "tony" mainly because my daughter argued one time when I said her friend lived in a very tony neighborhood that that wasn't a real word until of course she found out it was and I got to do my "I'm smarter than my 5th grader" dance  8)  I love words, I really can't think of any more right now but I feel like I could fill up a whole page with my faves. 

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #14: March 10, 2017, 08:08:18 AM »
Nevertheless is my compound word crutch
we have this standard joke in the office about paragraphs with "Nevertheless, however..."

I'll take cheap transitions and word-count fillers for $100.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #15: March 10, 2017, 09:33:18 AM »
While I didn't vote for the man whose name sounds the same as this word, lately I've taken a liking to using the perfectly legitimate verb "trump" just to bug people who have a negative reaction to it. (Funny, my iPhone wanted to capitalize it as I typed that sentence.)

An example would be earlier this week when I clarified that a new memo trumped prior instructions on a mattter.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #16: March 10, 2017, 09:59:22 AM »
Defenestration - the act of throwing something out a window. 

I used to use it a lot back when I was in IT support when I was at someone's desk who was completely agitated because their computer wasn't working right. They'd be so upset could not give me any useful information about what the problem was - they'd just foam at the mouth incoherently.  I'd tap a few keys on the PC, then put on my gravest face and say solemnly, "It looks like this computer needs a complete defenestration."  I'd get a puzzled look, then I'd explain what the word meant. I'd always get at least a rueful chuckle out of them.  That little bit of humor tended to calm them down a bit to the point where they could be at least somewhat coherent in explaining what problems they had so I could start troubleshooting.

Of course in most cases the errors tended to be either DEU errors (Dumb End User), or ID-10T errors (look at how it's written - ID10T).

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #17: March 10, 2017, 10:10:15 AM »
The computer-related term I like to use is "PLOKTA."

"Press Lots of Keys to Abort," as in how people start hitting all sorts of keys when it slows or freezes.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #18: March 10, 2017, 10:23:54 AM »
incorrigible

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #19: March 10, 2017, 10:31:22 AM »
incorrigible

Heard that one a lot, did ya? ;)

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« Reply #20: March 10, 2017, 10:42:26 AM »
Heard that one a lot, did ya? ;)

Not to my face.      :)

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #21: March 10, 2017, 10:54:53 AM »
The computer-related term I like to use is "PLOKTA."

"Press Lots of Keys to Abort," as in how people start hitting all sorts of keys when it slows or freezes.

PICNIC.

Problem In Chair, Not In Computer

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #22: March 10, 2017, 10:57:24 AM »
PICNIC.

Problem In Chair, Not In Computer
I cant share what we non tech folks would say about our IT help desk.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #23: March 10, 2017, 11:12:20 AM »
I cant share what we non tech folks would say about our IT help desk.

Then fire them :)

If the answer is anything other than 'They rock,' it's time for new IT people.

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Re: Favorite words
« Reply #24: March 10, 2017, 11:12:30 AM »
I cant share what we non tech folks would say about our IT help desk.

hahahah right? :lol: