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Wordish Wednesdays - Wednesday word of the day
We have FRIDAY night lights for the thrill of it and THURSDAY grumps for the chill of it, TUESDAY new tool day too. Who left out lonely Wednesday with nothing to do?
I declare a word war, if this is popular we keep it otherwise brickbats.
First, I need a moderator and victims every Wednesday. Moderators help maintain peace and guides our game.
THE GAME: Post a complete sentence including some bicycle content and a difficult, obscure or often misused word such as "concomitant". Help raise our collective ability to read the New York Times. Break on thru to the other side.
Self appointed moderator(s) will comment. The "game" lasts on full day with OZ and NZ getting a 1/2 day hallpass/jumpstart.
See you next Wednesday and feel free to declare yourself in charge....sukah
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Kick it - Beastie Boys reference in case you spent the last 20 years in a Swiss boarding school.
Welcome to Wordish Wednesdays. Todays words are beautiful sounding and elegant when spoken. Choose your own word or use one that has been used today in a complete sentence that includes bicycle content.
Loquacious
lo·qua·cious
lōˈkwāSHəs/
adjective
We all laughed hysterically after the worst section of Ballers Ride subsequent to a couple of unfortunate flats where Darren's normally loquacious manner was utterly absent. ha ha.
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Taming my irritatingly loquacious chain with NFS this morning...
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I learned that word from Mad Magazine:
teacher: "Joshua, use 'loquacious' in a sentence!"
little boy: "She bumped into me, so I told her to loquacious going!"
Next.
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This whole darn place is epistemic.
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Diaspora
My great grandfather fled to Ankara Turkey, an area not conducive to cycling, as a part of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in the late 19th century.
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Good start. Keep going.
More in the beautiful word category.
des·ul·to·ry
ˈdesəlˌtôrē/Submit
adjective
1.
lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
Forced to use clinchers by the Barbarian lord my formerly nimble Spectrum felt slow and desultory. Damn these clinchers, damn them to he!!
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Although concomitant beer and wrenching is an honored tradition it results in the growth of the ball bearing diaspora endemic to dark corners of my shop.
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Too Tall
Good start. Keep going.
More in the beautiful word category.
des·ul·to·ry
ˈdesəlˌtôrē/Submit
adjective
1.
lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
Sounds like my life story...
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inchoate
in•cho•ate
in-ˈkō-ət
adj.
•being only partly in existence or operation : incipient; especially : imperfectly formed or formulated : formless, incoherent (Merriam Webster)
"Wonderful things come from inchoate beginnings."
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It's quiet around here today.
Inspired by my son's recent discovery of Tintin, and the oaths of Captain Haddock:
ec·to·morph
ek-tuh-mawrf
noun
a person of the ectomorphic type.
Ectomorphs often make excellent cyclists.
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Thanks for the reminder. Busy day!
Today...words with Italian origins in honor of the Italian Masters.
tar·an·tel·la [tar-uhn-tel-uh]
noun
1.
a rapid, whirling southern Italian dance in very quick sextuple, originally quadruple, meter, usually performed by a single couple, and formerly supposed to be a remedy for tarantism.
2.
a piece of music either for the dance or in its rhythm
Conversations of the most usual kind become Tarantellas when bored cyclists opine where mortals fear to tread.
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Fiasco. From Italian for bottle; flask. Orig. theater slang for "failure."
The chase was a complete fiasco because none of the racers would work together.
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whale_spout
Inchoate (adj.)
•being only partly in existence or operation ... imperfectly formed or formulated : formless, incoherent
Translates in Swedish as "Ikea"
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I'll play.
Alacrity
He clipped in and said he would lead us out with such alacrity I knew it was going to hurt.
Mike
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With three teammates in the breakaway of seven riders, it was quite a snafu when none of them made it to the podium.
OK, weak sentence, and most of you probably know the etymology, but for those who don't, it is "situation normal all fucked up." I always get a kick out of it when politicians or otherwise socially conservative folk drop it into polite conversation, not knowing the vulgar origin.
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some fella said this word in an article, eleemosynary..a charitable offering. never in my life had i heard of that one.
my method of disposal for unwanted derailleurs, brakes, and various components is eleemosynary; off to the co-op with them.
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The US squad comprises some wily veterans,upcoming young talent and mid-career domestic pros to ensure a good balance of wisdom and strength.
OK, it's a little mundane as word, since everyone knows comprise, but it is NOT a synonym of compose. The whole comprises the parts and is never "comprised of" them. I teach/taught French, and comprendre, besides meaning to comprehend, also means to include, as in comprehensive, and comprise derives from that. I guess if enough people start using "comprised of" like composed of, it will eventually be standard meaning, but until then, I'm sticking to my curmudgeonly pov. not quite as bad as using "insure" instead of ensure... (you don't call State Farm to ensure something is done right!). I need to find some more mellifluous (sweet or musical to hear) words to share, but in the spirit of some recent ranting threads, there you go. etymologically yours.
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Persnickety.
It's OK to be a little persnickety about your vocabulary.
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Eruct/Eructation
I foolishly ate too much for lunch, causing me to suffer painful eructations for the duration of my late-afternoon ride.
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Joel Benjamin L
Eruct/Eructation
I foolishly ate too much for lunch, causing me to suffer painful eructations for the duration of my late-afternoon ride.
This reminded me of "micturate". Because we needed another word for this.
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pu·tre·fac·tion noun \ˌpyü-trə-ˈfak-shən\
: the process or result of decaying
After a night of beer-drinking with Darren and eating poutine, the unholy concoction within my body resulted in the most putrescent flatulence on the following days ride, undoubtedly the result of serious putrefaction.
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What's the word for this - last night thunderstorms were coming and the NWS warning said, among some other stuff: "lightning is one of nature's number one killers."
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Tom
What's the word for this - last night thunderstorms were coming and the NWS warning said, among some other stuff: "lightning is one of nature's number one killers."
Dimwit
con·com·i·tant adjective \kən-ˈkä-mə-tənt, kän-\
: happening at the same time as something else
Riding your bicycle more leads to concomitant improvements to your quiver of bicycles.
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Ironically, I saw Chief Justice Roberts use the word abstruse to describe an opinion.
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Jonathan
Ironically, I saw Chief Justice Roberts use the word abstruse to describe an opinion.
Autological, atmo.
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From 1970 The Peddie School -
Tergiversation is not my forté atmo.
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consubstantial
From Montaigne - "We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things- of diverse tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, sprightly and solemn: the musician who should only effect some of these, what would he be able to do? he must know how to make use of them all, and to mix them; and so we should mingle the goods and evils which are consubstantial with our life; our being cannot subsist without this mixture, and the one part is no less necessary to it than the other. To attempt to kick against natural necessity, is to represent the folly of Ctesiphon who undertook to kick with his mule."
consubstantial |ˌkänsəbˈstanCHəl|
adjective
of the same substance or essence (used especially of the three persons of the Trinity in Christian theology): Christ is consubstantial with the Father.
DERIVATIVES
consubstantiality |-ˌstanCHēˈalətē| noun
ORIGIN late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin consubstantialis (translating Greek homoousios ‘of one substance’), from con- ‘with’ + substantialis (see substantial) .
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Jonathan
Ironically, I saw Chief Justice Roberts use the word abstruse to describe an opinion.
Wild guess he used the latin definition. If you have the quote pls. send it this way. Hey, thanks for kicking this thread alive.
Weekend warriors, I don't miss riding bikes with them or their labile emotions.
la·bile
ˈlāˌbīl,-bəl/
adjective
technical
adjective: labile
liable to change; easily altered.
of or characterized by emotions that are easily aroused or freely expressed, and that tend to alter quickly and spontaneously; emotionally unstable.
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^^^ Funny to see that word in a non-psychological/psychiatric context. I use it a few times a day writing my patient notes...
By the way, all of the words proposed so far are perfectly cromulent. All of them have embiggened my vocabulary.
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Too Tall
Wild guess he used the latin definition. If you have the quote pls. send it this way. Hey, thanks for kicking this thread alive.
Weekend warriors, I don't miss riding bikes with them or their labile emotions.
la·bile
ˈlāˌbīl,-bəl/
adjective
technical
adjective: labile
liable to change; easily altered.
of or characterized by emotions that are easily aroused or freely expressed, and that tend to alter quickly and spontaneously; emotionally unstable.
Justice Roberts to Sen Cornyn,
"Well, Senator, I hope we haven't gotten to the point where Supreme Court opinions are so abstruse that the educated lay person can't pick them up and read them and understand them."
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Thanks man.
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Originally Posted by
Jonathan
Justice Roberts to Sen Cornyn,
"Well, Senator, I hope we haven't gotten to the point where Supreme Court opinions are so abstruse that the educated lay person can't pick them up and read them and understand them."
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Originally Posted by
Too Tall
Thanks man.
Roberts really nailed it, though I'm not a fan of some of his own abstruse opinions.
Give me more Nototius RBG!
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Persistently peckish Paul prefers peanuts.
peck·ish
ˈpekiSH/
adjective
Britishinformal
adjective: peckish
hungry.
"we were both feeling a bit peckish and there was nothing to eat"
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My pal Josh fancies himself a sesquipedalian.
Dude that uses big words.
Latin: sesquipadalis, Literally a foot and a half long.
First used 1656
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why not, it's Wednesday.
synesthesia, or synaesthesia
simplest definition is basically the confusing of senses: hearing colors, tasting shapes, etc. known both in the world of arts, in poetry as metaphor, and more recently as genuine neurological phenomenon. here is a more aesthetic treatment of the topic from U Chicago: synaesthesia (1)
I was so cross-eyed on that climb that a serious case of synesthesia set in : I was smelling sounds and tasting colors.
Since French poetry is/was my gig, I'll paste some better known examples from French symbolism (with both original and translations, since we have some native French speakers and poetry sometimes just not translate). pardon the length
Correspondances
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
— Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.
— Charles Baudelaire
Correspondences
Nature is a temple in which living pillars
Sometimes give voice to confused words;
Man passes there through forests of symbols
Which look at him with understanding eyes.
Like prolonged echoes mingling in the distance
In a deep and tenebrous unity,
Vast as the dark of night and as the light of day,
Perfumes, sounds, and colors correspond.
There are perfumes as cool as the flesh of children,
Sweet as oboes, green as meadows
— And others are corrupt, and rich, triumphant,
With power to expand into infinity,
Like amber and incense, musk, benzoin,
That sing the ecstasy of the soul and senses.
— William Aggeler, translator The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
Rimbaud, "Voyelles":
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes:
A, noir corset velu des mouches éclatantes
Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,
Golfes d’ombre ; E, candeur des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lances des glaciers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d’ombelles;
I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles
Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes;
U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,
Paix des pâtis semés d’animaux, paix des rides
Que l’alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux;
O, suprême Clairon plein des strideurs étranges,
Silence traversés des Mondes et des Anges:
— O l’Oméga, rayon violet de Ses Yeux!
"Vowels"
A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
Which buzz around cruel smells,
Gulfs of shadow; E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,
Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley;
I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips
In anger or in the raptures of penitence;
U, waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,
The peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows
Which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;
O, sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,
Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels:
O the Omega, the violet ray of Her Eyes!
(As translated by Oliver Bernard)
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Frank learned everything there is to know about reenactment bicycles from internet forums whereas I credit being erudite and relentless in my pursuit of real life experiences.
Love this thread.
er·u·dite
ˈer(y)əˌdīt/
adjective
adjective: erudite
having or showing great knowledge or learning.
synonyms: learned, scholarly, educated, knowledgeable, well read, well informed, intellectual; More
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After years of hearing everyone pronounce it air-you-dite (air-ya-dite if speaking quickly), including in England where pronunciation is a thing, especially at the BBC, I heard Nipsey Russell declare, on The Match Game with absolute certainty, that it is pronounced air-ooo-dite. I don't think I have ever heard it pronounced that way since.
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Agree with N.Russell. That's how I was taught.
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1centaur
After years of hearing everyone pronounce it air-you-dite (air-ya-dite if speaking quickly), including in England where pronunciation is a thing, especially at the BBC, I heard Nipsey Russell declare, on The Match Game with absolute certainty, that it is pronounced air-ooo-dite. I don't think I have ever heard it pronounced that way since.