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Post by Gabbin on Jun 26, 2006 22:43:13 GMT -6
Oh, for Pete's Sake, Gams. My eyes go boogety woogety staring at these screens as it is. Where did you find this? Okay, give me some time. I am more of a crossword type of gal.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 27, 2006 14:36:31 GMT -6
A belated thank-you for the tips, Mia. The fencing was of the plastic nature, and someone had already taken care of it for me: a visitor scratched over the offensive words with black marker. It's all faded to being barely legable now. You're very welcome...
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Post by Siren on Jul 11, 2006 17:25:56 GMT -6
Here's one courtesy of my big sis, who, too, loves words. Walking up my steps, and ducking one of several hanging plants, she said, "Your porch is positively sylvan!"
syl·van also sil·van Pronunciation Key (slvn) adj.
1. Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions. 2. Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest. 3. Abounding in trees; wooded.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 11, 2006 22:13:38 GMT -6
Neat, Siren. A new word for me; I've never heard it prior. And I can use it daily at work.
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Post by Siren on Jul 12, 2006 19:11:41 GMT -6
Apparently, sylvan refers to a mythical deity or spirit of the woods, too. Yes, indeed, a cool word, and a beautiful one, too.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 13, 2006 22:20:40 GMT -6
Ah-ha! The word "sylvan" came up at work today: there is a newer community here - one of those gated things - where the nursery's designer and landscape crew do a lot of work. "Sylvan Shores". It all makes sense now - in the forest by the lake...nevermind they clear-cut the forest to make way for those multi-million dollar homes. Pfft.
Pennslyvania - William Penn's forest?
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Post by Siren on Jul 18, 2006 23:08:47 GMT -6
There's a tutoring place here called "Sylvan Learning Center". Oh, and we have similar housing developers in my home town, Gams. They bulldozed hundreds of trees to build "The Oaks". Bastards.
Here's one courtesy of our Maeve:
bi·fur·cate Pronunciation Key (bfr-kt, b-fûr-) v. bi·fur·cat·ed, bi·fur·cat·ing, bi·fur·cates v. tr.
To divide into two parts or branches.
v. intr.
To separate into two parts or branches; fork.
adj. (-kt, -kt)
Forked or divided into two parts or branches, as the Y-shaped styles of certain flowers.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jul 20, 2006 21:53:13 GMT -6
Just for Madam P.....
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Post by Phalon on Jul 20, 2006 22:05:49 GMT -6
BOLL, Poppet! Thanks.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jul 20, 2006 22:16:43 GMT -6
That last one is soooo you.
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Post by Siren on Jul 20, 2006 22:22:55 GMT -6
I can't decide which one is funnier, "fiscally assaulted" or "cashtrated". Boll!
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Post by Siren on Jul 22, 2006 23:21:51 GMT -6
Here's a word I've often read, but never heard anyone use aloud:
Main Entry: sardonic Part of Speech: adjective Definition: scornful, mocking; disdainfully humorous Etymology: Greek sardonios `derisive'
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jul 22, 2006 23:25:54 GMT -6
OOOOH...I love that one...I use it all the time. And also syncophant....which I am constantly arguing over the pronunciation of. Any help from the smarty pants in the bunch?
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Post by Desire on Jul 23, 2006 7:59:01 GMT -6
i say it sync -(sink) -o- phant (fan-t)
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Post by Phalon on Jul 23, 2006 23:08:55 GMT -6
Hhmm....I'm thinking the pronounciation depends on the spelling. Your "n's" are showing, where I believe they shouldn't. The word in question is "sycophant", no? And flattery will get you nowhere - I say pronounce it however you wish, and coming from you, it’ll sound lovely.
But what do I know; my five-year old corrected me today, and told me I used a word which was not actually a word. I told her when she's grown-up, she can make up words too, but until then...do as I say, and not as I do. (eye-roll)
Sycophant - it takes a bit of arcobatics to pronounce: Sigh - ke (stand on your head here, cuz I'm too keyboard challenged to know how to make that schwa symbol) - fant, or fent - (another headstanding schwa) Sigh-ko-fant
LMAO - edited to correct my spelling of 'sycophant' - twice.
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Post by Desire on Jul 24, 2006 11:22:33 GMT -6
oooh see maybe thats why when i say that people look at me funny, hah my english teacher misspelled it when she taught it to us. Ack blush. I looked it up and your right Phalon but when i learned it there was an -n- in the wrong place,oops. Wooo.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 25, 2006 6:17:18 GMT -6
No blushing acks, Desire. I keep feeling the need to throw an extra "h" in there: "sychofant". And I'm still not sure how to pronounce it; every pronunciation guide I checked, (only three), had different variations. How do you pronounce it, Scrappy?
Like "sardonic", "cacophony" is a word I see written often, but have never heard anyone use in speech. Until yesterday. My friend said it, and I liked the way he used it. I've always taken it to mean brash or harsh noise, but he used it, taking poetic liberty, I think, in describing an unusually ugly combination of plants a customer chose; an unappealing, loud combination. "What a cacophony of color." Said with a smile, I think the customer took it as a compliment, but I know my friend - it was a sardonic compliment. Or perhaps he was being sycophantic?
Whichever - I asked, and he doesn't know the correct pronunciation of sycophantic either.
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Post by Desire on Jul 25, 2006 9:15:35 GMT -6
(sick-a-fent, psycho-fant) those are the two i found.
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Post by mabd on Jul 25, 2006 18:05:52 GMT -6
(sick-a-fent, psycho-fant) those are the two i found. sycophant \SIK-uh-fuhnt course you could just use lobsuchend. Maeve
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Post by Desire on Jul 25, 2006 23:12:12 GMT -6
Well oh mistress of knowing how to actually put it there properly I bow to you. hehe.
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Post by mabd on Jul 26, 2006 14:02:06 GMT -6
Well oh mistress of knowing how to actually put it there properly I bow to you. hehe. BOLL, Desire!!! I daresay that the (hopefully mending well) true bardic love of your life knows just where to put what far more than an old sycophant like me Maeve
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Post by Siren on Jul 26, 2006 18:43:33 GMT -6
I like the latin origin of this unusual word.
ob·fus·cate Pronunciation Key (bf-skt, b-fskt) tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made... to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert Conquest). 2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.
[Latin obfuscre, obfusct-, to darken : ob-, over; see ob- + fuscre, to darken (from fuscus, dark).]
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Post by Phalon on Jul 30, 2006 22:29:53 GMT -6
Sharing some good news with a friend; news that is cause for celebration. “Yes”, said I, “we’ll have to plan a celebratory dinner soon; it’ll be fun….wait, did I say that right?”
Didn’t enunciate the “r” in celebratory. A celibatory dinner? How fun could that be?
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Post by Siren on Aug 1, 2006 7:19:11 GMT -6
Not much, I would think - in a celebatory dinner, you'd abstain from all the foods you enjoy. In fact, you'd not eat at all, though you could smell and see the food, walking away hungry and frustrated.
Speaking of you "dropping" the r: it annoys me that some announcers have decided that it's fine to drop the hard c in "accessories", pronouncing it "assessories". Grrrrrr...
And while I'm ranting about grammatical pet peeves, it drives me crazy that many people don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". I see this mistake all the time. During the Red Sox game last night, they showed a young fan with a sign, apparently drawn up by an adult, that said, "Your not my daddy, your my papa."
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Post by Phalon on Aug 1, 2006 20:09:38 GMT -6
Ewww....and how about its and it's; a mistake I see all the time - even in my own writing. <cringe>
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 1, 2006 20:55:46 GMT -6
I screw up: whose & who's all the time.
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 1, 2006 21:09:56 GMT -6
To and too are my Achilles heel I'm deeply embarrassed to admit. If I took the time I could "possibly" get it correct more often then not, but being a slow typer, and even slower thinker, if I did try, I'd never get anything written, so have simply ditched the "too" in favour of the shortened version at all times ................. bet nobodies ever noticed that in my writing. ;D
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 1, 2006 21:15:19 GMT -6
Noooooooooooooooo. I hadn't.
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 1, 2006 21:21:25 GMT -6
You're to/too kind MM.
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 1, 2006 21:25:16 GMT -6
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