“Phenomenologist.”
Yep, it’s a real thing.
[sub]ETA: I even spelled it wrong when I first posted.[/sub]
“Rubric”
Paradigm
Substantive.
It’s a pretty solid, grounded word.
Solipsism
Cuirass
Interpellation
Defenestrate.
Actually, that’s my all-time favorite word. I find it highly amusing that the act of throwing someone (or something) through a window is so common as to require an entire word.
Antediluvian. I would have played it in the “Baker’s Dozen” thread had I been online when the topic was “Adjectives you like but don’t get to use often enough”.
Teledildonics
Pudenda
actually a good 70’s porn name would be Harry Pudenda.
I’ve heard of defenestration before, but it always felt like a strange word to me. If fenestrations are windows, wouldn’t de-fenestration be removal of windows?
Ex-fenestration or trans-fenestration might make more sense?
Virga.
Refers to precipitation that can be seen falling from a cloud, but which evaporates before getting to the ground. From Latin, meaning “streak” This phenomenon is very common here in the Southwestern USA during the summer, when rain from thunderheads fails to reach the ground.
Oh. Definitions we’re giving now?
Interpellation originally meant questioning with a sense of interruption. Ie: “Hey, what are we doing here?” It comes from parliamentary procedure, where a member of the government may be questioned on a point of policy, usually interrupting normal business.
It’s most often used in the sense introduced by Louis Althusser, the French social scientist. (French academics like to reuse old words for new ideas.) Interpellation here is how society gets people to internalize its ideals. Society basically says, “Hey! Check this out!” and says it so often - say, about how you should dress or drive or what you should think - that you start thinking it’s your idea, not society’s. You could think of it as society interrupting your normal business, except that it’s how you get your idea of what “normal” is.
Susurration – a soft, whispering background kind of noise, like wind through the trees
Not this week, many weeks ago in fact, but I have to respond by listing a few that all came from the lips of a quasi-educated boss I used to have:
Fomula
Graft (as in Bar Graft)
Mute (point)
Analyzation
Simular
Pitcher (as in moving…)
there were dozens more. Perhaps if I read the rest of the thread (I had to pause with your post Beware of Doug because it caused me to laugh out loud) there will be others I enjoy as much.
But to the point of the thread: numeration.
I now feel an apology is in order!
I thought you meant the misspeaking of interpolation or even interpretation, both of which I heard that boss abuse regularly.
But I looked it up and now I must find ways to use this one often myself so I can correct those who correct me!
Today was not a total waste!
Coulis: a form of thick sauce made from puréed and strained vegetables or fruits
Zymurgy: the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation processes in brewing
It’s on my mind lately because I recently got to use it in a Scrabble game.
I came in to say “perfunctory” was my word of the week, but “teledildonics” has replaced it.