Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about.
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Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about.
Continued from v. 2008.
I still enjoy onomatopoeic words like “sludge”, as well as long, complicated words which make me sound even smarter. And archaic words, especially Elizabethan ones.
I learned a new word this week. It came to us from German. The word is “ersatz”. It means a substitute for something else, but of a lesser quality than the original.
Insubordination is a good word, too. Lieutenant is fun to say, as are cacophonous and epaulets.
An ephemera of enigmatic elephants is astoundingly fun to say.
2: *tries it* Wow, you’re right! An ephemera of enigmatic elephants! Squee!
As I said on the previous version, Moxy Fruvous is an awesome name!
And in one of their songs, they rhyme it with “ways to improve us.”
Well, RoseQuartz (almost put LadyG there) asked everyone what they think her name was, based on her blogname. I think it’s better to continue it here because
this thread gets barely any traffic anywayit suits the idea of the thread better.So, what would you think Zinc the sorceress’ name would be?
Well, I don’t know what everyone’s names are…but I know your colors. Zinc, you’re a blue-gray with gold and purple; RoseQuartz, you’re pink and fuscia, although that might just be because those are the colors of roses and quartz. “Colored” names interfere with my color associations.
My name is tan, midnight blue, lime green and yellow.
7) Could you do mine ? People have no trouble guessing it, because I love books, look a bit like Hermione Granger (in the book) and my first name is Margaret (Maggie).
Hmm, I wonder how the colors of our blognames and our real names differ? Nthanda, what’s the difference between Hannah and RoseQuartz?
Zinc: titanium silver; Robin: robin’s egg blue.
bookgirl_me: dusty red like an old book; Maggie: brighter red.
Hmm, interesting.
9: Ooh, I’m Hannah too! Hannah high five!
Zinc: robin’s egg-blue with metallic flecks… Robin: bright red and green
bookgirl_me: dusty tan, dark red, bright green… Maggie: purple, bright red, reflected light
RoseQuartz: dappled dark and light breen… Hannah: really dark brown, pale goldish tan, dark green, bright red
Ooh! I love the word quark! Quark! Quark!
6- Briony. Deffinitely a “B” name.
7- Well, I see you as chocolate brown and royal blue.
What do you think my name is from my blog name?
Bookgirl_me–it’s hard for me to do real words like book or girl…but Maggie is a very definite grey and cinnamon red.
Anyone care to guess my real name? It’s black with hot pink, lime green, and neon yellow.
An awesome word: periwinkle.
Nthanda–could you do my name? Both my blogname, and my real name, Michelle? It would be cool to know what color’s I am.
12- hm… Ashley?
13- Luna: moonlight and pale silver reflected on a lake; Michelle: a darker silver, rain-cloud gray… it’s raining, but the rain doesn’t make you so much sad as thoughtful. Wow, I seem to have an extremely strange brain… actually, my picture for the name Michelle comes from the Beatles song, “Michelle.”
10- Holy wung, the colors I always associate with the name Hannah are really dark brown and goldish tan with a thread of silver running through them. And it’s so interesting how every single one of us associates bright red with the name Maggie!
14- No, Ashley is hot pink and butter yellow plaid. It doesn’t have any black, lime, or neon yellow, at least not to me. Nthanda, can you give us the first letter? I know that’s not much of a hint, but it does narrow it down a bit.
Luna: cream yellow and pea green.
Michelle: Burgundy red, with more cream yellow. This is weird, but to me, “M” and the “elle” are ‘dark’ letter combinations (hence the burgundy) but the “ch” breaks it up into the yellow.
My name starts with an S. (That kind of gives it away. I can’t think of that many S names besides my own
)
15, 16–Thanks! I think both of you have see very nice color combos for my name. I’m silvery and burgundy, and creamy yellow.
16–Sarah, Susan, Samantha, Sherry (although I prefer the spelling “Cheri”), Sandra……
16- Oh, there are lots of S names! I’m thinking Sabrina, but that’s probably not right.
My name starts with an S, too. It’s extremely common.
19- I already know it from the Profiles thread. By the way, it’s salmon and lilac.
20 – Yeah, I figured.
Salmon and lilac… pretty!
I wonder if it’s possible to be… half-synesthetic? or something? I mean, I don’t see colors or word-pictures, but if I concentrate for a couple of minutes I just… know. If that makes any sense. It’s like the colors are there, I just have to concentrate to bring them into the open. Songs do that too, but the strongest are the ones that are in Dorian, they’re all some variation of silvers and grays. For instance, I’m listening to White Horse by Taylor Swift. The colors are there, but I have to search for a minute to find them. They’re soft yellows woven into a braid with a gold thread running through them.
17–You win. It’s one of those you listed. (But I won’t say which one!)
22–Yeah, I’m the same way. I think it’s just associations we’ve built up over the years with certain names and letter combinations.
Makes it easy to memorize stuff, tho–I can remember things by what color they are.
23- OK, I cheated, I know which one it is because I saw it on the Profiles thread. But how is that black with hot pink, lime green, and neon yellow? It’s forest green, neutral brown, and sunlight on dead leaves. Now Sabrina, that’s exactly the colors you said. It’s black with random splotches of hot pink, lime green and neon yellow, but they look like fabric paint on a T-shirt, if that makes any sense.
I am almost definitely not synesthetic, but I’m going to try making up picture-things for people’s names.
Zinc the sorceress: a glowing, faintly blue orb
RoseQuartz: a delicate rose carved out of translucent, pale pink quartz
Luna the Lovely: a sleek, indefinite shape (like the sculpture Bird), gold with hints of silver
Nthanda the Laugher: flowing teal silk
Kokonilly: a black-and-cream checkerboard pattern with soft, blurred edges between colors
What does “Rainbowstar” look like? I assume everyone’s going to say a rainbow star, but I just wanted to know.
What does ‘Miranda” look like?
25-
Rainbowstar– A glittering fish in a glittering fish bowl, with a rainbow arcing over head, the sort of rainbow that’s in cartoons with clouds and pots of gold at the ends.
Miranda– Angry dark skies and storm-tossed grey seas.
I can actually trace every association I just mentioned.
*random*
My new favorite word is continuum.
My old favorite word was spake, archaeic past tense of speak.
*end random*
Anyone wanna guess my real name or color name?
. I have no idea what’s going on in this thread. What are all the colours for?
I love the word “acnestis”.
28- It’s synthesia (sp?). It’s where people relate two senses together more strongly than most people. People are seeing what their names “look” like to certain people with synthesia.
24–No idea why it’s those colors. I think it’s because that’s a color combination I associate with my personality–kind of wanna-be punk mixed with adventurousness.
26–Miranda is deep red and mahogany to me.
28–Oh, we’re just being random, we’re associating colors with people’s real names. Care to join?
A cool name: Jason Spectre (or maybe Spector?). It sounds like a futuristic ghost hunter to me for some reason…
(26) Alice: Because of Miranda from The Tempest?
32- Yep.
31- “Spectre/Spector” sounds very like “specter,” a name for a ghost; perhaps your brain is punning the word? Where did you hear the name? Heyyy, that would make for an interesting character! Hmm…
I like the name “Triana”. There was a scrapped satellite project named that. It sounds like a more fancy/exotic version of the name “Ariana”.
Do both small but fierce and my real name.
I like the word brobdingnagian because it’s fun to say. I also like the name Indigo and the name Starr. (as in Ringo Starr)
Oh and the word natiform
Vendavoile
Sellsail
I recently realized how ‘defenestrate’ is formed.
de- a prefix for from, away.
fenestr- from the French for window.
ate- a suffix for cause, amke.
I’d say this post is dying, too. . .
I like the names Indigo, Rose, Jay, Starr, Brett, Hazel, Faith and Kanter.
We’re doing some stuff with rhombi in geometry class, and I have realized that “rhombus” is a very fun word to say.
Rhombus.
Rhombus.
Rhombus.
My new favorite word is plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop.
Dickensian. Now favorite word.
One day I came across the word ‘quash’ in a book and I could not stop laughing hysterically.
I also like the word ‘betwixt’.
GEE WHIZ THIS THREAD IS SO BEYOND DEAD!!!!
Well, I noticed that a lot of you guys were talking about synesthesia. I’m slightly synesthetic, as in I picture colours with names. I picture a lot of people’s MuseBlog screen names as colours.
What colour is my name, Silver Lining?
Hot pink. Ps and Rs are hot pink.
Ooh, do my name, please, Silver Lining!
Silver, yellow and turquoise. I can do your real name too.
Cool!
Real name: eh. If you want to.
Your real name is eh? Well, Eh is red.
I assumed you knew my real name – I posted it before, somewhere… I’d rather not post it more than necessary. *paranoid of cyber-stalkers*
I don’t know your real name…sorry. Oh well.
To me it’s silver, yellow and white. Cool, it’s almost the same colors as Silver Lining’s!
What’s mine?
Voila–a post!
Philadelphia+Pennsylvania+Delaware (
)
Adelaide
socialite(I’m not sure if actually made that word up and it happened to be real or I just couldn’t remember where I saw it)
twisted evilpoints (see my name)
What color is my name????!!!! *is excited*
Blue and orange.
My favorite word is “currency,” mostly from that hilarious line in Pirates of the Caribbean 3. I don’t even remember who was talking to Lord Beckett, but here’s what I recall:
:Someone: I guess honesty isn’t the currency of the realm anymore.
:Beckett: I believe the currency is the currency of the realm, someone.
I just crack up every time.
Also, the school library was giving away all its extra posters, and I got one just because it had the word “currency” in it. Here it is:
Knowledge
The Currency of Democracy
I think that’s hilarious. Democracy doesn’t really have a currency… Also, the two -cy endings just make me laugh like a lunatic.
One of my friends got a poster that said “Love is a fourteen letter word: familyplanning.” That doesn’t make any sense! Love only has four letters! And family planning is two words anyway! Gosh.
When I was a little kid, I really liked the word “monstrosity”, and, a bit later “conspiracy”. Words that end in “y” are fun to say.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY love the phrase *recoils in horror*
recoils in horror
recoils in horror
recoils in horror
Postcard in school library: Dewey and the decimals LIVE(underlined) in the library FREE ENTRY. It doesn’t make any sense but I absolutely love it. Maybe beacause I’m a maths geek and I find the word “decimals” vaguely attractive?
)
Then, I love what Einstein called his geometry book: his “holy geometry book”.
(Postcard number 2: It has ghosts saying things like “I’m stressed!” “Me too!” “eat and sleep well” “plan your attack” and above the words PASS and FAIL it has two white bunnies. Pity I din’t have a pink texta handy.
Okay, so I have this debate with my friend(s). How do you guys pronounce the word “khaki”? I pronounce it like “khoh-kee” (rhymes with rocky), and have found not one other person that does the same, outside of my family. Everyone else says “khah-kee.” Rhymes with tacky. Because it is a tacky pronunciation.
Now, a brief google search wields the conclusion that Americans use the tacky pronunciation, UKers use the rocky one, and Canadians are just way off. But I’d like to see anyway, how do you say it and what region are you from? I would like to settle this.
I use the tacky pronunciation. I live in North Carolina, but my parents are from the New York/New Jersey, so I don’t have a southern accent at all.
I use the tacky pronunciation. *shrugs* It’s just how I learned it.
I use the “tacky” pronunciation……*is from Alaska*
That’s how I learnt it…..
I have never heard of this khohkee pronunciation. Do you just use a long “a” sound? Because that makes sense, but I don’t understand where the “oh” would come in
I use the tacky pronunciation.
Well, essentially it is pronounced “cocky.”
I’m from New York and I say the pronunciation that rhymes with “tacky”.
I’m from New Jersey I use the tacky one…
I’m from Oregon, and I use the “tacky” one.
My father was in the Navy and usually wore khaki uniforms. We pronounced it “cacky.”
50- The rocky pronunciation. I’m American, I’m just weird. And my mom pronounces it the tacky way.
That all sounds really weird, looking back at it….
Yes! You should probably know, I’ve asked probably around 20 people/sources so far, and you are the first American non-family member who says it my way. Thank you.
Post 50 reminds me: Last year my friend and I would always argue over whether mischievous is pronounced “MISS-cheh-vus” or “miss-CHEE-vee-ous.” We bet a bag of jelly beans over the dictionary pronunciation. I won.
My grandma always pronounced the word “misled” “MYZE-ld”, to rhyme with “PIES held.” She knew what it meant- she just pronounced it MYZEld.
Hm… I believe my favorite word right now is “Balderdash” because Ebenezer Scrooge says it a lot. *worships scrooge*
I also say “Ninny-hammer” sometimes. There’s this other word that means “a short and insignificant person” but I can’t remember what it is…
Deagol.
My favorite word as always is sesquipedalian. I also like ansu, pruritus, hemeralopia, alcarraza, and fumagillin. (Anyone see the pattern?) I’m a total word nerd…
The pattern? Um… kinds of plants? I think I saw one that was a type of rash… Anyway, favorite word is still balderdash.
One of them is a plant. One of them is a rash. The meanings really don’t have anything to do with it. And the pattern is probably something that you’d either know immediately or not.
Quidsquip! A Native American name
:),
Consanguinity,
Cachinnation,
Unasinous ( Sound familiar? ),
Malfeasant,
Cimiscine :),
Natiform
Mellifluous
There’s something about the world “resonance” that I like, also “magnetize”.
This thread is still open….
Wow. I remember I used to love it when I was a ‘phyte. 
I’m supposed to be getting off the computer now, so perhaps I’ll post something here tomorrow.
There’s something about the word “crept” that I like.
I learned new words from my Frances Perkins book today!
Vicissitude
Bombastic
Vitrolic
Scurrilous
Chit
Animosity
And some from Flowers for Algernon ;
Vacuous
Peroration
Euphemism
Euphonious ( speaking of euphemism )
Qualms
Ionize
Manifold
Pertinent
Adroit
Exigency
Catatonic
Coalesce
Efface
And some random ;
Ignominious
Egregious
Agnostic
Cohesion
Colloquial
Loquacious
Circumlocution
Neolithic
Antipathic
Philharmonic
Occlusion
Credence
Indoctrinate
Equipoise
Incorrigible
I like words
Speaking of names, I’m thinking of changing mine… to either skyblunebunny or violet sky (a reference to a song I love). Yes, no, maybe?
Violet Sky is really pretty…
Yes, Violet Sky sounds pretty.
“Transponder” is kind of fun to say.
I like the word zenzizenzizenzic because it overuses an underused letter of the alphabet.
It’s an outdated way to say the ‘eighth power of a number, x’
62 – I like skybluebunny. In fact, if you don’t use it, can I have permission to steal it and run off with it like a eight-year-old with en’s shirttails on fire?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Sorry but no, as I already used it for a while on MA when MB was down and otherwise. I think of it as a good name to change to because some people (who were there at the time when avatars came about and I messed up on the account name) already know skybluebunny=bookgirl_me. It just isn’t on Who’s Here because I technically never used it on MB.
Oh well. I’ll just brainstorm some other names for myself …
candy cane the twenty-fifth
AeroDynamic
Madeira the Muffin ( Madeira is NOT my real name )
Hmmm, I like AeroDynamic the best. Henceforth ( whenever I feel like changing my screen name ) I shall be AeroDynamic 225.
I like names such as Aislyn, Rayne, Luna, and Belladonna. For myself, or anyone really. I also like Kaigara. Or Holly. Or Mikazuki, which is why I chose it.
For screen names, I like
Yuffie the great
Yunalesca
???
I like normal names spelled different. Like Allys. Or Jynna.