Poll: Your favourite words.

[shootthebandit]

"Linoleum". Just say it a couple times to yourself.

Or possibly the American pronunciation of "aluminum". Every time I hear it it sounds like Harry Potter's about to cast a spell on me . . .

Theres a good billy connolly one where hes on about "a roll of linoleum" or as he says "a loll of rinomeum"

I like the work fuck

Thankfully the aforementioned billy connolly is here to explain.


ill just add that the word fuck is so incredibly versatile. You can use it in just about any old fucking sentence and it makes sense. Happiness, distaste, anger and pretty much any emotion can be described. You can describe the state of something, if someone says something is broken its not the same as saying simply "its fucked", at work I have someone bring me a component and they says "its fucked" I know thats not going to be an easy job. You can even use the word fuck as a verb "I fucked her last night". You can use it in replace of a proper noun e.g "who is that fucker"

There are many more uses of the word too. It is truely one of the most versatile words. Yes swearing may be a symptom of a limited vocabulary but I dont need all these words when I can use the word fuck in any situation

Edit:

discombobulated

I like the language in general, but that word is especially fun

Yes that is a good word but splice the word fuck in there and its even better. Discom-fucking-bobulated. Just listen to how beautiful that sounds

 

[Xan Krieger]

It would be "fuck" just because I use it so often for so many situations. It's a very versatile word usable no matter what happens. Used in bad situations and good ones, whether I'm bored or excited, and it fits with every other word.

 

[Barbas]

(Snip).

I do like that one. There are a few people I know who can put so much feeling into slumping and shouting to the heavens, "Oh, for fuck's saaake."

After several years in Britain, I am forced to agree. I wish George Carlin was still around, because he had a way with that word in particular. Here, "c**t" seems to have usurped "fuck" for its versatility; nobody can embellish it like an Englishman.


It's even energetic and comical when you're shouting it at an inanimate corpse. Great in Snatch as well, but I won't delve into that because...yeah, that's gonna turn the conversation R-rated pretty sharpish. XD

It's more a phrase than a word but at the moment I really like the expression "hog wild", meaning "out of control". I'm not sure where it originates from but it's got an amusing mental image to it.

Oh no...I just imagined two hippocrocapigs...AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH- *smacks head with book*.

"Screwnicorn". Without a doubt it's "screwnicorn".

And I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise for you. You'll just have to Google it on your own.

I say...it's one of these [http://craziestgadgets.com/shop/wp-content/uploads/screwnicorn.jpg], isn't it?

"Superfluous"
Now there's a brilliantly flowing, elaborate word for something that's completely surplus to requirements.

 

[The Sanctifier]

Juggernaut, perfect word for anything designed to be incredibly bad ass.

 

[TheSYLOH]

"Gruntled"

Adjective. Pleased, satisfied, contented.

I am a 24 year old native english speaker and I didn't even realise this was a word until last week. It's not even like "Of course it's a word, that's where you get disgruntled from" because disgruntled came first. I feel really gruntled now when I get to use it in a sentence.

Actually the word "disgruntled" is an example of an Unpaired Word, a word whose antonym did not survive, was never imported to English or just plain never existed in a related form in the first place.

Gruntled in this form didn't exist till the late 1930's.

Personal Favorite word:

Inebriated
A word that cannot be properly said while inebriated.

 

[LongAndShort]

Being an Australian, we have a proud heritage of swearing that'd make our Irish, Scottish and working-class London forbears proud. You can pack a lot of meaning into the use of the word 'fuck'. When I was working retail one of my mottos for dealing with difficult customers was "tell'em to fuck off. Politely."

Other words I enjoy include Concur and Flagellate.

Concur is one of those great words that just adds a little extra strength to your meaning. Saying "I concur" isn't just saying "I agree", it's saying "I agree and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong and can go fuck themselves with a claw hammer. Twice."

Flagellate is just a lot of fun. When I was at Uni I did a 'Christianity in Medieval Europe' course that most of my fellow students later said they hated. I loved it, because I got to say flagellate (and variation of) constantly, something I don't normally get to bring up in casual conversation. "Saint So-and-so self-flagellated in the desert." "This particular group of priests reckoned flagellation brought them closer to God."

 

[Kaymish]

weasel and tarragon are my two favorite words at the moment one is a small cute warm blooded animal that does a funny dance when excited and is cutting a massive swath of death and destruction through the biodiversity here and the other is a herb that just sounds so cool

on a tangential (also a cool word) topic i got a "try saying:" chart from one of the people at work
first one on the list "shes an aggressive go getter." instead of: "shes a power crazy *****" they just crack me up
anyway enough of my inane chatter

 

[Zemaddog]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - means "the fear of long words."
Floccinaucinihilipilification - means "The estimation of something as valueless."
Sesquipedalia - means a long word.

I basically like words that are long just for the sake of being long, so you could say that I'm sesquipedalian. I'll also throw in discombobulate, because it's fun to say, and pneuminoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, because it's 45 letters long.

EDIT: Vortices - plural of vortex. Just say it out loud.

 

[Autumnflame]

Blackmail is such an ugly word i prefer Extortion the X makes is sound cool-Bend Bending Rodriquez.

i agree with his line of thinking

 

[Demonjazz]

I find my self saying bloody as a swear a lot. Usually in conjunction with hell. And if I'm really angry I even put in a goddamn. Also smeg is a great replacement swear word.

 

[Blacklight28]

Indubitably.
I used to think Teal'c from Stargate said this a lot, but it turns out it was indeed. But still, indubitably in a deep voice is awesome.

 

[KINGBeerZ]

Mulomedic, which means pertaining to the medical care of mules, also
Platitudinous, which means full of platitudes

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Should you make more of what? Words?

When i was little i made a compound word a couple hundred letters long

 

[Avery]

Alliteration.
The word and it's application is particularly interesting to me.

 

[FPLOON]

Rapscallion: A word I had to learned turned into a word I associate with Ed, Edd, n' Eddy...
Dude: A word I would purposefully put emphasis on the "U" part 9/10 times...
Hentai: A word I just like hearing/saying, especially given it's actual meaning...
Word: A word[footnote]HA![/footnote] that just so happened to become a slang term...
FPLOON: A word I made up that's also pronounced "fuh-ploon"...

Other than that, a honorable mention to Shusha for just being a "funny" take on the word "shush" as well as Topekia for actually being an actual name you can give to someone, I guess...

 

[Skeleon]

I dunno, I just like the word "bugger", mostly used when something goes horribly wrong.

 

[sageoftruth]

IKUZE!!: At this point, I've heard it enough times in enough games that I find it more energizing than shouting "Let's go!"

 

[TheRiddler]

Bumfuzzle, which is obscure, but means "to confuse".

And of course, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (fear of long words) because I am an unabashed sadist.

 

[DoPo]

Indubitably.
I used to think Teal'c from Stargate said this a lot, but it turns out it was indeed. But still, indubitably in a deep voice is awesome.

Whenever I read this word, I read it in the Crypt Lord's voice.

OT:

[HEADING=3]So, go on then - what are your favourite words in any language and why?[/HEADING]

Actually, come to think of it, it's mostly short quotes from...stuff. Mostly games as strategy games has looots of short quotes. For example, I am always tempted/expect a "Da" to be followed up with "For the Union!" and/or "For mother Russia" (lines which the conscripts - Soviet infantry in Red Alert 2). Similarly, I almost personify "Kirov reporting" with Russia.

Probably the most notable not-from-a-strategy-game example would be Megatron's (from Beast Wars) "Yes, yees. Excellent!". Which I don't actually think he used as much.

Spoiler: Certainly lots of 'Yes'-es, though

And as a not-a-quote example (erm, not sort of directly) I have "In Hastur's name" which I find just a really good way to curse sort of without cursing while also sounding mean.

 

[Necron_warrior]

HABERDASHERY

So fun to hear, fun to say.