In which I share what I’ve used Google’s define1 function in the past seven days to better understand.
lemniscate
antipathy
sidereal
basque
DS3
SSP
I often look up words I’m familiar with just to make sure I really do know what they mean. Because sometimes? It turns out that I actually don’t.
Well, that’s not exactly true; I have extremely subtle inference [...]
Continue reading about Words (and technical acronyms!) I’ve looked up in the past week.
In which there’s an example but no rules, really.
Okay, so last night Truck said Carne Estrada to me. I laughed my arse off.
Today, I said Angelina Joie de vivre to him. Which didn’t really impress him, but amused the hell out of me. (Morning isn’t my sharpest time of day.)
So it’s the household’s new word [...]
In which I quote my roommate, Truck.
Truck and I got stupidly drunk on vodka Tuesday night for no good reason, and probably solved all the problems of the universe in the course of our brilliant discussion… but naturally now we’ve forgotten most of it. I did write this down in the throes of my intoximacation, [...]
In which I show you what my reading has taught me.
1. catenary
2. Planck’s constant
3. belletrist
4. plethysmograph
5. haptics
Being a running list, 25-31:
coprophagous
half-life
cynosure
Being a running list, Dec. 4-10, 2005:
frottage
turducken
turgid
Yes, I have been reading smut as a matter of fact!
Being a running list, 18-24:
turbot
anomic
diktat
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A running list, 14-20:
proprioceptive
kvelling
apposite
ullage
naff
A running list, 7-13:
schadenfreude
pederastic
dyspnea
somatization
cladistic
protista
mishugana
arced
