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Title: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Samus Aran on November 16, 2009, 01:37:57 PM
Defenestration

n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: LCK on November 16, 2009, 01:40:38 PM
I'm going to defenestrate you.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 16, 2009, 01:41:24 PM
You really only learned that recently?

In before Sprankton joke


crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\ , adjective;
1.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
2.
(Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Samus Aran on November 16, 2009, 01:42:24 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 16, 2009, 01:41:24 PM
You really only learned that recently?



yes, i've never seen it used in any text i've read that i can recall

i just saw it on a "cool words list" since i had to come up with a cool word for a class really quick
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: rdl on November 16, 2009, 01:48:58 PM
brouhaha
ââ,¬â€œnoun
1.    excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo: The brouhaha followed disclosures of graft at City Hall.
2.    an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., esp. a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause: A brouhaha by the baseball players resulted in three black eyes.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Thyme on November 16, 2009, 01:49:05 PM
Quote from: Lain on November 16, 2009, 01:37:57 PM
Defenestration

n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.


I tend to mistake that with expropriation for some reason. goonish

and deforestation maps;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on November 16, 2009, 01:50:09 PM
pulchritude

pul⋅chri⋅tude [puhl-kri-tood, -tyood] 
–noun
physical beauty; comeliness
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Thyme on November 16, 2009, 01:51:42 PM
Quote from: Ted on November 16, 2009, 01:50:09 PM
pulâ‹…chriâ‹…tudeââ,¬â€šÃ¢â,¬â€š[puhl-kri-tood, -tyood] 
ââ,¬â€œnoun
physical beauty; comeliness.


I mistake that with putrid. myface;

well putridity
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Mando Pandango on November 16, 2009, 02:32:23 PM
syzÃ,·yÃ,·gy   (sÃ,,­z'Éâ,,¢-jÃ,,“)
n., pl., -gies.
   1. Astronomy.
         1. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun.
         2. Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and Earth.
         3. The configuration of the sun, the moon, and Earth lying in a straight line.
   2. The combining of two feet into a single metrical unit in classical prosody.


I've actually known this for a while but it's my favorite word. Just say it over and over I mean really.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: just1more on November 16, 2009, 02:59:51 PM
I guess if you want to be the dick that talks so you can sound so intelligent because no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about, sure be my guest and use fancy, misguiding words like that.

There is the normal English language, and then there is the "I am an intelligent, eloquent, and vastly superior snob" English language.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Samus Aran on November 16, 2009, 03:06:48 PM
Quote from: Joe on November 16, 2009, 02:59:51 PM
I guess if you want to be the dick that talks so you can sound so intelligent because no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about, sure be my guest and use fancy, misguiding words like that.

There is the normal English language, and then there is the "I am an intelligent, eloquent, and vastly superior snob" English language.


Uh, you're the one being a dick here, this is a thread about words that we think are cool, not words that we want to use to be "eloquent" douchebags.

Get the fuck out of this thread.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: just1more on November 16, 2009, 03:08:35 PM
Quote from: Lain on November 16, 2009, 03:06:48 PM
Uh, you're the one being a dick here, this is a thread about words that we think are cool, not words that we want to use to be "eloquent" douchebags.

Get the fuck out of this thread.

Sorry, it was more directed towards JMV than the thread in general. I fucking HATE it when people say things like "You only learned that recently?" I thought I hit the quote button.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Samus Aran on November 16, 2009, 03:10:33 PM
Quote from: Joe on November 16, 2009, 03:08:35 PM
Sorry, it was more directed towards JMV than the thread in general. I fucking HATE it when people say things like "You only learned that recently?" I thought I hit the quote button.


Even still, you didn't have to take it like that. Knowing JMV, I took it more as simply surprise that I hadn't come across the word before, because he thought it was more common than that. I didn't take offense to it and I didn't think he was being a dick.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: just1more on November 16, 2009, 03:13:41 PM
Quote from: Lain on November 16, 2009, 03:10:33 PM
Even still, you didn't have to take it like that. Knowing JMV, I took it more as simply surprise that I hadn't come across the word before, because he thought it was more common than that. I didn't take offense to it and I didn't think he was being a dick.

I did come off as hostile, but comments like that are a really big pet peeve of mine. I really cannot tolerate that kind of shit, even if it's directed at someone else.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 16, 2009, 03:16:41 PM
i'm pretty sure JMV looked up his word anyway
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 03:38:35 AM
Quote from: Lain on November 16, 2009, 03:10:33 PM
Even still, you didn't have to take it like that. Knowing JMV, I took it more as simply surprise that I hadn't come across the word before, because he thought it was more common than that. I didn't take offense to it and I didn't think he was being a dick.
Uh yeah it was basically this. I am pretty sure Snorkel or Trevor posted a thread about this word before like a year ago.
Quote from: Socks on November 16, 2009, 03:16:41 PM
i'm pretty sure JMV looked up his word anyway
no i saw it in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-eared_Owl



oh uh found it: http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,145.msg652037.html#msg652037

It was ypr who's posted it a few times.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: ?????? on November 17, 2009, 03:52:26 AM
Quote from: Socks on November 16, 2009, 03:16:41 PM
i'm pretty sure JMV looked up his word anyway
what doesn't he look up
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: just1more on November 17, 2009, 05:44:22 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 03:38:35 AM
Uh yeah it was basically this. I am pretty sure Snorkel or Trevor posted a thread about this word before like a year ago.no i saw it in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-eared_Owl



oh uh found it: http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,145.msg652037.html#msg652037

It was ypr who's posted it a few times.

you know you are addicted to the internet when you remember a specific word posted on a forum over a year ago
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 05:47:39 AM
Quote from: Joe on November 17, 2009, 05:44:22 AM
you know you are addicted to the internet when you remember a specific word you saw on a website over a year ago
Uh "ypr...posted it a few times."

Additionally, I remember the word from English during my freshman year of high school
Like kaz said, you're being the dick here.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: just1more on November 17, 2009, 05:49:22 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 05:47:39 AM
Uh "ypr...posted it a few times."

Additionally, I remember the word from English during my freshman year of high school
Like kaz said, you're being the dick here.

Yes, now I'm being a dick, I'll admit it.  n_u

Before I was just defending Kaz, which is now apparent he never needed defending. I apologize, please go on with your cool word learning.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 05:51:22 AM
i think you are just angry that you didn't know any of the words in this thread until you readi t.  n_u
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 05:53:38 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 05:51:22 AM
i think you are just angry that you didn't know any of the words in this thread until you readi t.  n_u


yeah well you don't know what budalla is
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 05:56:47 AM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 05:53:38 AM
yeah well you don't know what budalla is
Enlighten me.

It has to be an English word that exists in the dictionary socks.  akudood;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 05:58:21 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 05:56:47 AM
Enlighten me.


it means idiot

Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 05:56:47 AM
It has to be an English word that exists in the dictionary socks.  akudood;


my language is older, so take your dictionary and shove it
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 06:02:18 AM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 05:58:21 AM
it means idiot

my language is older, so take your dictionary and shove it
Earliest undisputed texts
The primary records in Albanian include the "Formula e pagëzimit" (baptesimal formula), dating back to 1462, authored by Pal Engjëlli (or Paulus Angelus) (ca. 1417ââ,¬â€œ1470), Archbishop of Durrës and a close friend and counselor of Skanderbeg. It was written in a pastoral letter for a synond at the Holy Trinity in Mat and read in Latin characters as follows, Unte paghesont premenit Atit et birit et spertit senit ("I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost"). It was discovered and published in 1915 by Nicolae Iorga.[2] The second is Fjalori i Arnold von Harf ("Arnold von Harf vocabulary") in 1469; the third document Ungjilli i Pashkëve ("Easter Gospel") or Ungjilli i Shën Mateut ("Saint Matthew's Gospel") is dated in the 15th century.




Beowulf was written in the 11th century so shove it. akudood;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 06:04:21 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 06:02:18 AM
Earliest undisputed texts


my bad, my people did not have a language until that text, i forgot  doodthing;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Bushy on November 17, 2009, 06:05:37 AM
Uniformitarianism

It means how shit changes over time or something.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 06:06:19 AM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 06:04:21 AM
my bad, my people did not have a language until that text, i forgot  doodthing;
When does a language become a language, because english came from germanic which is older, and unless you can define when a language becomes a new language there is no way to prove when the spoken language arose.  akudood;
Quote from: Porter on November 17, 2009, 06:05:37 AM
Uniformitarianism

It means how shit changes over time or something.
doodthing;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 11:42:03 AM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 06:06:19 AM
When does a language become a language, because english came from germanic which is older, and unless you can define when a language becomes a new language there is no way to prove when the spoken language arose.  akudood;


let it go JMV, not only are my people far more ancient, but so is my language
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 12:15:47 PM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 11:42:03 AM
let it go JMV, not only are my people far more ancient, but so is my language
Nigga, my people are the Romans.
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 12:26:13 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 12:15:47 PM
Nigga, my people are the Romans.


geographically speaking, my people are closer to Africa via the ME and Central Asia land route so...............
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 12:28:49 PM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 12:26:13 PM
geographically speaking, my people are closer to Africa via the ME and Central Asia land route so...............
well mine care closer to africa via boat motherfucker
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Socks on November 17, 2009, 12:31:09 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 12:28:49 PM
well mine care closer to africa via boat motherfucker


everybody knows niggers can't cross water :|
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 12:34:40 PM
Quote from: Socks on November 17, 2009, 12:31:09 PM
everybody knows niggers can't cross water :|
fuck you're right :|
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Sillbury on November 17, 2009, 12:40:49 PM
mammaries
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Daddy on November 17, 2009, 12:41:40 PM
Quote from: Spork on November 17, 2009, 12:40:49 PM
mammaries
are those like flying mammals
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Sillbury on November 17, 2009, 12:47:01 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 12:41:40 PM
are those like flying mammals
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=mammaries&cts=1258513847437&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on November 17, 2009, 12:47:39 PM
Quote from: JMV on November 17, 2009, 12:41:40 PM
are those like flying mammals
mammary glands sillydood;
Title: Re: cool words you learned recently
Post by: Samus Aran on November 17, 2009, 12:48:02 PM
Quote from: Spork on November 17, 2009, 12:47:01 PM
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=mammaries&cts=1258513847437&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi


(http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/39/61848/f/362973-All-Hail-the-Mighty-Mammaries-0.jpg)