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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: googlemancy #156656 03/06/06 05:25 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Sponsored by: Sick Of Phone Psychics? Live 24/7 Online Psychic Readings No charge till you hit the 'Hire'. Psychics.kasamba.con Tarot Card Expert Discover your future through cards Love, Money, Work. Free Reading www.aboutastro.con/tarot Ads By Google Sheesh, they can't even spell Phoné properly! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Diviniation #156657 03/06/06 05:26 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Allo Myridon, I do understand that, but the devination is done with a shoulder-blade, so it would be more easily understood as a scapulomancy or scapulamancy (don't know what the rules are for an "o" or "a") since that is more pertinent to the act. There would be less chance of misinterpretation, and it would actually be easier to intuit what the word meant. What I'm saying is, why invent a word that is not clear, when a clearer one would do the trick? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Diviniation #156658 03/06/06 08:41 PM Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20 P Person_Man OP stranger OP Person_Man stranger P Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20 >Yes, but words are a means of communication. If someone simply invents a word... I can understand your frustration. But, firstly, these words (most of them at least) originate from the middle-ages, which was an extremely active time for the occult sciences. Even the queen (Elizabeth the I) had her own occultist for hexxing enemies and foretelling her future (Mr John Dee). They accordingly had a whole bunch of words for their activities, just like all our techy words today which would look just as unfathomable to a 15-century occultist and these do to you. Secondly, I imagine some of these words are meant to be exclusionary; specialist vocabularies sometimes do have a way of trying to keep outsiders out. Thirdly, is this really a place to have to defend obscure words? Isn't that one of the reasons people come here? To discuss words, and among them, obscure words? It's not like I threw these words into a sentence without explaining myself. I have posted them for discussion in a word forum because they are unusual. If the meaning of a word can be entirely taken for granted, there's not really a lot to discuss, is there? Last edited by Person_Man; 03/06/06 08:44 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Diviniation #156659 03/06/06 09:28 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 But of course this is a place to discuss words, obscure ones, commonplace ones, new ones, the new tecky ones, aye, all of them, PM. That’s why it’s fun. Wasn’t that what we were doing? I thought the discussion was interesting. Like your point about the words being exclusionary. It's a point I don't remember having discussed before and one that could start a new thread. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Diviniation #156660 03/06/06 09:40 PM Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX M Myridon addict Myridon addict M Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX Quote: ...What I'm saying is, why invent a word that is not clear, when a clearer one would do the trick? ... English language logical? Ghoti-sticks. I just meant to make it clear that spatula- was also from a meaningful root. It's possible that it may have been clearer at the time the word was "invented" than it is now, i.e. nobody would be thinking avocado green nylon cooking implements when they heard it . Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Well, I didn't know all of them #156661 03/06/06 09:46 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC aeromancy -- divination by reading contrails (also membership in the Mile High Club) alectryomancy -- divination by becoming a lightning rod and reading the burn marks on your body (very few practitioners.) aleuromancy -- divination by examining foxy ladies alphitomancy -- divination by throwing something against the side of a mountain amniomancy -- divination by reading tea leaves in a tea bag anthropomancy -- divination by asking men (guaranteed to be wrong) apantomancy -- divination by reading the varicose veins on bare buttocks arithmomancy -- divination by counts (for peers only) armomancy -- divination by throwing swords up in the air over a grid aspidomancy -- divination by getting rid of spider webs and seeing what's left astragalomancy -- divination by asking cosmonettes astromancy -- see astragalomancy axinomancy -- divination by questioning a James Bond villain batanomancy -- divination by conductors belomancy -- divination by shouting loudly Bibliomancy -- divination by grabbing a random book in a library capnomancy -- divination by asking the commander of a boat catopromancy -- divination by reading the hairs on the tip of a cat's ears causimonancy -- divination by listening to the cries of crows (Kansas City area only) cephalonomancy -- divination by looking at the wrinkles on penises ceromancy -- divination by examining the love life of marine animals chaomancy -- divination by reading the leftovers in Chinese restaurants cheromancy -- divination by reading the plastic surgery scars all over a certain actress chiromancy -- divination by reading the Nile mud flats outside a large Egyptian city choeromancy -- divination by grabbing a task out of the job jar clidomancy -- divination by reading the bullet holes in the body of Bonnie's friend coscinomancy --divination by reading the price sheets at a membership warehouse daphnomancy -- divination by interpreting what a cartoon duck is trying to say empyromancy-- Dvination by sticking pins in an Asimov novel gastromancy -- divination by listening to stomach rumblings geomancy -- divination by reading the oil drips from an inexpensive General Motors product gyromancy -- divination by reading the leftovers in a Greek sandwich shop halomancy -- divination by reading the auras around a saint hippomancy -- divination by studying the wrinkles on the backs of certain large mammals hydromancy -- divination by doing pencil rubbings of large fire department water sources ichthyomancy -- divination by interpreting the various fish signs on the back ends of automobiles margaritomancy -- divination by trying to figure out the lyrics to Jimmy Buffett songs mechanomancy-- see geomancy meteoromancy -- divination of the wrinkles in fat people moleomancy -- divination by tracing the burrows of underground mammals molybdomancy -- divination by trying to figure out the meaning of utterances of a certain Wookie (the one who flew in the molybdenum falcon) myomancy -- dvination by following the path of a random cursor on a computer screen omphalomancy -- dvination by interpreting the sounds of the guy who chants a mantra (the om fellow) onimancy -- divination by reading the rings of an onion onomancy -- divination by trying to figure out the art of Lennon's widow onomatomancy -- divination by trying to figure out the art of Lennon oömancy -- divination by reading your own mistakes ornithomancy -- divination by reading the landing tracks of a Burroughs flying machine pegomancy -- divination by asking my wife rhapsodomancy -- divination by listening to the sounds of heavy metal scatomancy -- divination by readin the tracks of a shooed-off cat spatulamancy -- divination by a minimum wage earner sternomancy -- divination by sniffing odd substances sycomancy -- divination by reading blood spatters on a shower curtain tiromancy -- divination by reading skidmarks transatuaumancy == divination by sticking pins into a bus schedule tyromancy -- divination of trolldom by studying the natterings of ostensibly new persons at AWAD talk urimancy -- divination by reading the stress patters of bent silverware uromancy -- divination by reading the yellow snow xylomancy -- divination by reading droppings of circus animals, but only those in the t(h)ree rings TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Well, I didn't know all of them #156662 03/06/06 10:13 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Thanks for listing the definitions TEd. bec-bec. (OH, and I do not shout loudly) >>>avocado green nylon cooking implements EDIT: typo Last edited by belMarduk; 03/06/06 10:17 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divination #156663 03/07/06 12:36 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Quote: In a book I am reading I have come across an extraordinarily comprehensive list of words (with descriptions) for methods of divination (below). How many do you know? How many more are there? Quote: aeromancy alectryomancy aleuromancy alphitomancy amniomancy anthropomancy apantomancy arithmomancy armomancy aspidomancy astragalomancy astromancy axinomancy axinomancy batanomancy belomancy Bibliomancy capnomancy catopromancy causimonancy cephalonomancy ceromancy chaomancy cheromancy chiromancy choeromancy cledonomancy clidomancy coscinomancy crithomancy dactylomancy daphnomancy empyromancy enoptromancy extispiciomancy felidomancy gastromancy geloscomancy geomancy gyromancy halomancy haruspicy divination hippomancy hydromancy ichthyomancy kephalonomancy lecanomancy libanomancy lithomancy margaritomancy mechanomancy meteoromancy metopomancy moleomancy molybdomancy myomancy oenomancy omphalomancy onimancy onomancy onomatomancy onychomancy onymancy oömancy ornithomancy pegomancy phyllorhodomancy physiomancy plastromancy pyromancy rhabdomancy rhapsodomancy scapulomancy scatomancy sciomancy sideromancy spatulamancy sternomancy stichomancy stolisomancy sycomancy tasseomancy tephramancy tiromancy transatuaumancy tyromancy urimancy uromancy xylomancy zoomancy P.S. I'm happy to give the definition for any of these if you can't find it. Brokeback Posting... "I don't know how to quit AWAD, man!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divination #156664 03/07/06 12:44 PM Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20 P Person_Man OP stranger OP Person_Man stranger P Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20 > Brokeback Posting... "I don't know how to quit AWAD, man!" When translated from gibbering into English, what does this mean? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divination #156665 03/07/06 12:53 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I think it means you haven't seen a certain movie. 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