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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Awful Aweful #128645 05/24/04 02:40 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Just picking a nit here : Didn't awful originally mean full of awe? Commanding profound respect. Reverential awe. OED still lists it as a seond meaning (how the mighty do fall!) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Awful Aweful #128646 05/25/04 11:11 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 According to AHD <http://www.bartleby.com/61/28/A0552800.html> it meant 'awe-inspiring' in ME and, cross-referencing to CASD<http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/png/oe_clarkhall/b0090.png>, the same in OE. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Awful Aweful #128647 05/25/04 11:30 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK When using 'awefull' a few posts up, I was thinking along the 'shock and awe' line. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Awful Aweful #128648 05/25/04 02:41 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Please believe I didn't mean to offend. I just noted the spelling in a sort of visual double-take. Should sit on my hands more. Sorry. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Awful Aweful #128649 05/25/04 04:12 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK didn't mean to offend S'okay! Never thought you did. But word play like that is always tricky and I often find that I have written something quite obscure that I blithely thought was transparent! In fact a visual double-take was what I was trying for - some of the imagery in the poem is intended, rather like that in Dantés Inferno, to give feelings of fear and terror in an old fashioned way. The writing brings pictures to mind that would have to be produced as steel engravings; thinking about it, I believe the famous Doré illustrations to Danté are steel engravings - I'll have to check - and they convey the dark mood of the work. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter I would choose: #128650 05/28/04 05:45 PM Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 67 G gonoldothrond journeyman gonoldothrond journeyman G Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 67 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I would choose: #128651 05/31/04 02:21 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Emptiness? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I would choose: #128652 05/31/04 03:14 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I think that gonoldothrond said it all. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 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 Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary 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 Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,351 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 804 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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