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And people sometimes simply view help as interference -- which does *not necessarily make them independent cusses. In such cases, it's best not to take it personally.
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Disgruntlement? Umbrage?
Everyone gets stuck for a word now and then.
Like this classic, from Poe :
There were the junior clerks of flash houses - young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to be an exact facsimile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before.
-- The Man of the Crowd, 1840
Deskism?
[cough-terrible-cough]
The mot juste this is not.
(I wonder is there a word for this common experience of being bereft of words... for lexical amnesia... for not being quite able to pin it down in a word?)
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What was a flash house, please?
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What was a flash house, please?
A brothel, for the wearers of cheap, flashy jewelry who frequent them.
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Thanks! Do we have bling houses, today?
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Just last week I heard from a former 3rd grade student of mine, now in 6th. She sent me a poem which will help you handle your predicament:
Perspective
By Jamie
Some people care,
Some people don't.
So don't sit around
and mope
Just because
A friend in need
Does not consider
Your well
Thought-out
Deed.
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Quote:
Disgruntlement? Umbrage?
Everyone gets stuck for a word now and then.
Like this classic, from Poe :
There were the junior clerks of flash houses - young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to be an exact facsimile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before.
-- The Man of the Crowd, 1840
Deskism?
[cough-terrible-cough]
The mot juste this is not.
(I wonder is there a word for this common experience of being bereft of words... for lexical amnesia... for not being quite able to pin it down in a word?)
hmm.. i think we all need a word for this oh-so-very ubiquitous situation..not being able to find the right word when we require it..
nothing strikes me.
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>I wonder is there a word for this common experience of being bereft of words... for lexical amnesia... for not being quite able to pin it down in a word?< I'd tell you what it is, but I'm suffering from lethologica.
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o great..thats a real help..now it would be easier to flip people around!!
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Lethologica!
I didn't know there was a word for it! That's so... so... happy-making.
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