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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 favorite things #1664 04/28/00 06:39 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass what is my favorite word? pull-ease! but here is a word that I really like: transpontine - situated on the other side of the bridge try this at your next board meeting, when the chairman brings up his favorite topic for the nth consecutive meeting: "That issue is transpontine in the extreme." meaning that you will cross that bridge when you come to it, when actually it has long since been crossed. (I much prefer this to "overcome by events" [OBE]. : ) http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1665 05/04/00 04:22 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13 Sydney, Australia M Meta4 stranger Meta4 stranger M Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13 Sydney, Australia My favourite word at the moment is "disingenuous". It's much less direct, but still as effective as saying simply that someone is a liar: "It's disingenuous to suggest that I neglected to perform that duty". Very nice in company emails. Will have most people rushing for the dictionary. I subscribe to the same theory of wordplay that The Police did in their song "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da": "when their eloquence escapes me, their logic ties me up and rapes me"; I love tying people in knots with vocabulary. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1666 05/04/00 06:42 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York >I love tying people in knots with vocabulary. A noble pursuit, and one I also enjoy, but you should be warned: That's not likely to happen here :) A word I like a lot these days is "dissemble." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1667 05/05/00 06:52 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland The use of "suppose" in phrases like "you are not supposed to walk on the lawn" has always thrilled me as a similarly indirect English way of giving orders. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1668 05/09/00 02:57 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13 Sydney, Australia M Meta4 stranger Meta4 stranger M Joined: May 2000 Posts: 13 Sydney, Australia I read recently that fear of palindromes is called "aibohphobia". Makes it hard to describe your condition to your doctor... Can anyone confirm or deny this? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1669 05/09/00 06:54 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 I wonder what the fear of anagrams would be? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1670 05/09/00 11:25 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ... and the fear of acronyms? and acronym redundancies? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1671 05/09/00 02:12 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I thought that all fears had been named, but I guess I was wrong! Here are some that have been: agyiophobia - fear of crossing busy streets amaxophobia - an abnormal fear of sitting or riding in a vehicle blennophobia - a morbid fear of slime deipnosophobia - a fear of dinner conversation epistemophobia - the fear of knowledge ergophobia - an abnormal fear of work gamophobia - the fear of sexuality gephyrophobia - a terror of crossing bridges hagiophobia - the fear of saints [pretty rare, I'd guess] pantophobia - the fear of everything taphephobia - an abnormal(?) fear of being buried alive and of course: phobophobia - the fear of fear itself nihilphobia - the fear of nothing oh, and I almost forgot: arachibutyrophobia - the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1672 05/09/00 02:21 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass APS phobia - Acronym Phobia Syndrome phobia (or fear of APS syndrome :) ragamanphobia - fear of anagrams http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: favorite things #1673 05/11/00 07:49 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 140 Melbourne, Australia lusy member lusy member Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 140 Melbourne, Australia Love it! 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