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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #218042 - 08/10/14 11:05 PM Re: today's wwftd is... qajaq [Re: Bazr] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi And PALINDROME is more properly spelled PALINILAP Top #218046 - 08/11/14 05:24 AM Re: today's wwftd is... qajaq [Re: tsuwm] FoFong stranger Registered: 08/05/14 Posts: 7 Loc: Ludicrana Falls Originally Posted By: tsuwm FoFong> peevers heh. Top #218075 - 08/13/14 08:53 AM today's wwftd is... sonder [Re: FoFong] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass the worthless word for the day is: sonder [perhaps related to F. sonder, to probe?] the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own--populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness--an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ Q: do all concepts require a specific word? Top #218081 - 08/13/14 02:13 PM Re: today's wwftd is... sonder [Re: tsuwm] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Q: do all concepts require a specific word? I think not. Words describe but also delimit information about the world around us. For example your question and my answer are obfusicated because of our use of words here. Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview 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 consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8947 Members 16 Forums 13866 Topics 222203 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members michor, Daksh1, geoffhargreaves, Guadalupe, may2point0 8947 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 23 Guests and 4 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) wofahulicodoc 64 LukeJavan8 52 may2point0 19 Tromboniator 3 May 1 jheem 1 geoffhargreaves 1 Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 13803 Jackie 11613 tsuwm 10538 LukeJavan8 8433 Buffalo Shrdlu 7210 wofahulicodoc 6793 AnnaStrophic 6511 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400

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