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emiluvsjmusic 04-10-2008 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Excessum (Post 455486)
I think that joining a word game would be a more effective way on how to get your post count up, Kajitsu. :rolleyes:

hey now, thats not very nice...

Kajitsu 04-10-2008 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin (Post 455466)
Other than "floccinaucinihilipilification"... None of them seem all that uncommon to me.

Makes me wonder just how many people out there don`t understand me when I use some of these in regular conversation.

I just like inevitable, okay? I thought no one knew tortuous...

shinigami13 04-10-2008 07:02 PM

we use those words in Italian too (except the flocc thing) so to me they are easier than other English words. they're almost the same: toruous-tortuoso, inevitable-inevitabile, perplexed-perplesso, sordid-sordido

Kajitsu 04-10-2008 08:47 PM

Sorry for the really easy ones; I couldn't think of any really hard words. Even floccinaucinihilipilification is easy once you memorize it.

Kajitsu 04-11-2008 10:08 PM

Okay, I realized something. You are all intelligent, but I come from a school where most people couldn't tell you what "reprimand" means, even if their life depended on it. I know; it's so unfortunate, all those minds wasted in teenage life...:pinkcry: I can't wait to be rid of this country.

Kajitsu 04-11-2008 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by chaseme (Post 455360)
i have a hard time pronouncing inevitable

I didn't know it until I was 13. My parents used it a lot, but I never asked the meaning.:o

MissMisa 04-11-2008 10:14 PM

I like Melancholy, that is rather common. It means gloomy/sad.

Misanthrope means a distrust/hate/dislike for humans.

And I also like Juxtaposition, hard to describe but it sort of means comparing two things that are of a different standard, like a binary opposite,

Misanthrope and Juxtaposition aren't reall used much, only in school essays >.<

gorki 05-29-2008 01:25 AM

I have one I think is also quite uncommon (in normal English speaking...as J.K.R. used this as the language of goblins...you may heard it alreday^^) gobbledygook ~ don't know how to explain what it means^^' ~ maybe something like nonsense...

duron 05-29-2008 02:15 AM

woahhh some new words there eiy, here's what you can to someone if they say something bad to you

how dare you insinuate that i would tolerate such a diabolical statement
from a dimutive scrap of society such as you,
if you persist in such an annoyance
i will summon all of my physical & mental powers
ang pulvurise you & your pugnacious tounge
in other words.......shut up! :D

Nathan 05-29-2008 05:01 AM

That would thoroughly discombobulate someone.


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