I like leafing through a dictionary looking for interesting words. It’s an easy way to increase one’s vocabulary, and it can be a challenge to work such words into a conversation. And no, it doesn’t count to say “Hey, guess what new word I learned today??”
Some of my favorites:
Thaumaturge
Persiflage
Splenetic
Callipygian
Panache
Brumal
Apogee
What are yours? Discuss.
Happy Monday.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. Oh and blurf.
I like parsimonious. It means excessively unwilling to spend. A fancy way to say cheap.
I survived a Sunday shift. Go me.
Ok, gotta get more caffiene in the system plus brekkies and work purtification.
Happy Monday Y’all! It’s actually my Tuesday. I now live in a work world like Dotty and Special1.
ETA: First!
Erk. It’s much to early to discuss vocabulary. Can I take a pass for now?
Hello darlings. I am too tired to think of fancy words. I think the word I use the most nowadays is “fuck.” :smack: By-product of stress. I have way too much work nowadays, but Irish Co-worker and I snatch what moments we can get. He is settled in his new apartment and has a nice queen-sized bed. We just put up curtains so the morning sun doesn’t wake us up so early anymore.
Splendiferous
I had to look that one up to make sure it was real. It is.
I’m fond of egregious. Fortunately, I don’t often have occasion to use it.
And, well, Haze’s word has its charm (well, that’s not really the right word, but you know what I mean; don’t you?) too.
Up. Not awake.
Happy Monday. I think.
GT
G’morning and hi. Anyone miss me…?
Favorite words? I love words. I’ll have to think and get back to you.
Here’s one from my daughter- she likes “oxymoron” and now defines it “as the guy from the Oxyclean commercials”. hee hee
Blurf. Is it Firday yet?
I will venture that Haze is the walking definition of ‘callipygian’.
One of my favorites is ‘ghastly.’ It’s not a really big or terribly unusual word but it sounds so much like what it means to me that I enjoy it.
Blurf. Off to caffienate.
I love words, too! I can’t think of any special ones right now, maybe later. I need more caffeine…
Happy Monday, y’all!
Mornin’
I have always been fond of ergo…which means therefore, but sounds cooler, despite being shorter. Also, obfuscate.
Thanks for the hugs and well wishes all. Grandpa is being taken in … right now, actually–7:45 central time… so, hopefully they’ll know something in 6 hours. Ugh. This is going to be a long day.
Jocularity, jocularity. Just what we need on Monday morning.
My favourite word ever is “flibbertiggibet”. It’s just fun to say it over and over and over again. 
And just to prove that I was meant to be a Victorian lady, I’m also very fond of “horrid” and “reticule” and “crinoline”.
{{mousie}} Thinking good thoughts for your grandpa.
Ah, another false friend. In Spanish parsimonioso means someone who takes his own sweet time to do things; parsimonia is something like careful slowness.
I like naughty since I found out how to pronounce it: there was a period of maybe 12 years between reading and hearing it for the first time and excuse me but the pronunciation helps in dictionaries are usually no help at all.
I like aye, too. And if expressions count, “nae ta bother.” Gee, I think I’m in the right place
I like onomatopoeia. It sounds like something Roseanne Roseannadana would say.
I tried an “introductory” yoga class Saturday morning that nearly killed me. Somehow I don’t think 90 minutes of trying to balance on one foot is anyone’s idea of a “beginner” class. I didn’t like the so-called teacher anyway. He was a dick.
We are supposed to get not one, but two, cold fronts this week. We have been very spoiled for a while here so it’s going to be hard.
Anyone read Bleeding Kansas? I am reading it now and think it is one of the better books I’ve read lately.
mousie, I’m sending out good vibes for Grandpa.
That is all.
Tupug
My favorite English/Spanish false friend is “embarazada.”
Working my ass off this week, except for Wednesday which I’m taking off so I can drive to the airport to pick up Complicated Roommate. He has Big Happy Fun News which I’m not going to mention until it’s official. No, it’s not relationship related. That would be Not Happy Fun News.
Crap, I need to remember to take off next Thursday too. That’s day 3 of the Great Three-Day Party which starts next Tuesday.
:: swoon :: I like your way with words. Irish Co-worker usually just says I have a nice ass. :dubious:
We’ve been having cold snaps here too, but nothing compared to the winters in Chicago. I should be grateful, but I think my body has already forgotten how bad Chicago winters were.
If I’m being perfectly honest, the biggest reason I’ve been so scarce lately is - well, work has been busy, but I’ve been spending most of my spare time at Irish Co-worker’s place, and he doesn’t have internet yet. :: looks sheepish :: We’re still in that stage of dating where you can see someone every day and still feel like you can’t see enough of them, although we’re kind of moving past the nervous stage and into the comfortable stage. (At the very least we managed to get a good night’s sleep last night - every other time both of us would wake up exhausted the next morning regardless of how many hours we’d actually slept. I think it was just because we weren’t quite used to each other yet.) We’re like a couple of moony-eyed teenagers at the moment though. It’s disgusting, really. 
Although I have to say we’re more than well-behaved when other people are around. I have a horror of turning into THAT COUPLE that can’t keep their hands off each other regardless of whoever else is about.
Okay, have a morning class tomorrow, so I’ll stop babbling and go. :: kisses and jumps into bed ::
Hi people!
I’m back. Maybe. We’ll see as the week progresses…
Can’t say I have any “favorite” complicated 
words. Especially since I don’t get to use them that much. I did get to use conscientious today, though, so I’ll offer that one as my paltry contribution.
Hey, does “paltry” count, too?
Haze, I’m jealous!
No, not of you… of him!!
I’ve always liked ostentatious and quisling. They’re almost onomatopoetic.
I thought one of the compensations for not working would be getting to sleep in. Unfortunately, one of my neighbors has a dog and that dog has to be put out at 6 am. It howls. All. Day. Long. It’s a horrible, drawn-out, whimpering howl. Oh, well, I shouldn’t be sleeping in anyway.
Mousie, I’m keeping a good thought for your grandpa.
So I have finally looked intently at the requirements for a Political Science degree and a Math degree. Technically, I have completed enough hours that I could do both of them in the next four semesters and manage to graduate in four years with two majors. However, that a. requires that I be able to fit all of them into my schedule, which gets difficult with classes that have maybe one or two sections each and b. requires that I take nothing else. So I’m thinking I may add a semester or more and get a minor in Statistics as well. I’m also considering going to grad school, partially because I’d like to do some more work on election math. (Totally speculative idea: doctorate in political science, studying the voting behavior of Reagan Democrats 1980-2008. Obviously this would be difficult, because I’m not sure records of demographics are kept in much detail, but I think I could find something.)