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    words.

    Favourite phrases, sayings, compounds, expressions, random grouping of words etc, etc

    Lets hear them!

    conscience laden
    humble magnificent
    just like clockwork
    cellar door

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    words, words, words, and we do nothing but words in the name of poetry.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Stupid is as stupid does.
    He who calls the tune pays the fiddler.
    Home came the saddle, but home came not he.

    tail-wagging scumbag.
    protruding teeth.
    putative heir.

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    using enthusiasm as a verb. Like this:

    Mathor is enthused!

    It's a very ancient usage of the word, and is no longer commonly accepted by most English dictionaries.
    Last edited by Mathor; 08-06-2009 at 02:51 AM.
    I'm losing all those stupid games
    That I swore I'd never play

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    I must use 'humble magnificent' and 'enthused' more!

    - incommensurable
    - tiptop
    - German word 'entgegengegangen'
    - lately I've been keen on words with 'x', such as the adjectives 'lax' and 'taxing'.
    - the phrase 'to be sure' is an all-time favourite.
    - favourite word has to be mushroom (you'll find it's a funny word in every language: hongo, paddenstoel, Pilze, cogumelos, fungo, champignon)

    When talking to others I like being needlessly exhilarated or awkwardly formal
    1) answering 'terrific!' when asked how I am (regardless of how I really am) in such a jovial manner that people are unsure whether I mean it or I'm being sarcastic.
    2) being overly polite, e.g. consistently addressing a 20-year-old as 'sir', and saying things like 'I wish you a delightful Thursday' when leaving.
    I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
    Molloy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mathor View Post
    using enthusiasm as a verb. Like this:

    Mathor is enthused!

    It's a very ancient usage of the word, and is no longer commonly accepted by most English dictionaries.
    I very much like how it sounds, for which reason this time I will not do what dictionaries and/or scholars recommend, and just to prove my word is worthy:
    "I feel an enthusingly enthusiastic enthusiasm in a very enthusing sense"
    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Endon View Post
    'entgegengegangen'
    meaning, please?
    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Endon View Post
    favourite word has to be mushroom (you'll find it's a funny word in every language: hongo, paddenstoel, Pilze, cogumelos, fungo, champignon)
    True, "delightfully" funny!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Endon View Post
    When talking to others I like being needlessly exhilarated or awkwardly formal
    I like to do that too. I like to call the sun the "orb of Apollo," especially when I'm hanging out with my friends, who I call "delightfully crude" in my best Mary Poppins impression.

    My favorite words/combinations:
    1. Hodge-podge
    2. Pandering sycophant
    3. Mollycoddling (the "ing" is important)
    4. We aren't allowed to swear here, but if we were, I'd say F***. Some people don't like swear words, but I do very much.
    5. Discombobulated
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    Pish Posh.
    I'm losing all those stupid games
    That I swore I'd never play

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    I like to do that too. I like to call the sun the "orb of Apollo," especially when I'm hanging out with my friends, who I call "delightfully crude" in my best Mary Poppins impression.

    My favorite words/combinations:
    1. Hodge-podge
    2. Pandering sycophant
    3. Mollycoddling (the "ing" is important)
    4. We aren't allowed to swear here, but if we were, I'd say F***. Some people don't like swear words, but I do very much.
    5. Discombobulated
    A few of these I had forgotten due to lack of use, and others I didn't know. So thank you
    "Isil" is glimmering, telling it's about time to wane

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    Love shack.
    Tubular bells.
    Hollywood bloodbath.
    To file a grievance.
    Tremendous amounts of pain pouring from their cries, rinsed by their tears.

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    JuniperWoolf

    I do like discombobulate!

    How about hoity-toity
    and one that my sister coined " ______ irks my liver.
    "What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare." W.H. Davies

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    As a poet I like to wear a garland of words.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Hewers of wood, drawers of water.
    Yabadabadoo.
    Huckleberry.
    Mish Mash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maximilianus View Post
    Hewers of wood, drawers of water.
    Yabadabadoo.
    Huckleberry.
    Mish Mash.
    It is interesting, symbolic and penetrating!

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blazeofglory View Post
    It is interesting, symbolic and penetrating!
    Thank you! Glad you liked it!

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