Written vs. spoken.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:10 pm

spittin_in_the_wind wrote:I used "sycophant" in a conversation the other day...

Robin

Isn't that an insane, murderous elephant?

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:45 pm

When she espied my crapulent, leering glances at her magnificently callipygian aspect, she did incarnadine my cheek with her open hand.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:53 pm

gonzo914 wrote:When she espied my crapulent, leering glances at her magnificently callipygian aspect, she did incarnadine my cheek with her open hand.

You're in with a chance of a big prize

Keep it flowing

Slan,
D.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:34 pm

For years when I saw "misled" I read it as "micelled". And I used to think the name Manuel was pronounced "man-u-ell," not "manwell."

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:36 pm

Charlene wrote:And I used to think the name Manuel was pronounced "man-u-ell," not "manwell."

That depends on if it's used as a Spanish name or not.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:40 pm

Yo Walden,

Hope all's well with you.. and yours in the Phillipines..

Slan,
D.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:34 pm

I've used callipygian for years. Meretricious is a favourite of mine, as are zeitgeist and ersatz. On the whole, though, I find this thread to be egregious.

Steve

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djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:57 pm

S SteveSahw wrote:im so errudite and my english is so blemmishless.

Steve, you are so eruditiously unblemished!

djm

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:59 am

On retrospection the continuum of my verbosity faltered upon the aprehension of a collegue whence addressed declined in reply "And what is that in English?". With alacrity I promolgated a synopsis of cumulative and aggressive fenestration of my litterary and, indeed, Oratory obfuscation. This scenario proceeded unabated and unchecked as the wonderfully wrought constructions of my magnificent verbal prowess began to break down as more and more people could work out what I was talking about. Some even began to talk to me without having to. I saw how beer helped the whole thing along. Till now i can't hardly seem to talk much at all. 's cool dude uh ...

It was all rubbish anyway.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:44 am

Why can't you guys talk and write proper like what I do?

Steve

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:59 am

My dictionary spells it "Callipygean" which it has as secondary to "Callipygous" which is the term I use, when I can. It's even better when you know the opposite, "Steatopygous".

(That's Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, BTW).

What about "Numinous"? If you have "Egregious", surely you can have "numinous".

And I love the word "Nympholepsy", but although I've looked it up several times I can never remember what it means. Oh yeah, that's it. I think I get that from looking at my wife's lingerie catalogues.

"Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words since I first called my brother's father Dad!"

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:05 am

Seg-way, eh? Thanks for the tip, Wanderer.

"There's nowt so queer as folk" = "Folk music is for Homosexuals only"
(From the Book "Yacky Dar Moy Bewty" by Sam Llewellyn)

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:59 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:My dictionary spells it "Callipygean" which it has as secondary to "Callipygous" which is the term I use, when I can. It's even better when you know the opposite, "Steatopygous".

Concise Oxford gives both as alternatives. Who's looking at the word anyway when you could be looking at the objects of the word...

Steve

hoofbeats · Post by **hoofbeats** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:29 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote:Hey, those are just regular words. I use them all the time. Except "sobriquet", which I can't work out how to pronounce. I've never heard it, even on Radio or TV.
But tell me, do people ever actually say "segue"? How do you pronounce it? Do they ever say "Copacetic"? (I've seen it written in Uncle Remus!)
Here in Yurp we're wondering... does anyone really say "mosey"?

We Texans say it all the time. We also use "y'all" and "fixin' to" extensively.

One of my profs actually used "discombobulated" in a handout last week.

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