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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread loquacious #178635 08/11/2008 6:30 AM Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 Jumalauta stranger Jumalauta stranger Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 Today's word reminded me of a laugh I had a few months ago watching a Canadian cooking show. The chatty male chef, preparing some sort of batter, made up the word "liquatious." Though he intended to describe properties of his mixture, he inadvertently described properties of his self. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: loquacious Jumalauta #178637 08/11/2008 7:30 AM Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 2 HoJo stranger HoJo stranger Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 2 The first time I heard this term used was in a kids movie...animated. You need to check this film out if you have not seen it. Very good for both children and adults alike. It is "The Road to Eldorado" starring Kevin Kline (Tulio), Kenneth Brannagh (Miguel) with an excellent sound track written by Elton John and Tim Rice who also did the soundtrack of Lion King... The quote is from a fight scene in the first 5 minutes of the film starting...where the two con men after having cheated a dice, create a duel scenario to change the topic at hand. At which point one of them says Tulio: "Any last words??" Miguel: I will cut you to ribbons, fool!" Tulio: "Such mediocrity.! Let your sword do the talking!" Miguel: "I shall!! It will be loquatious to a fault" As a result of this my 7 and 9 year old boys understand what it is to be LOQUATIOUS. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: loquacious Jumalauta #178645 08/11/2008 11:03 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 There is a dictionary entry for liquation. I don't see that it would be a great stretch to apply this word to cooking, nor would I see a problem using liquatious to describe a mixture that had undergone liquation. Was something like that going on when he used the word? And are you sure it was inadvertent? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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