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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: today's wwftd is... qajaq [Re: Bazr] #218042 08/11/14 03:05 AM 08/11/14 03:05 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny   veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi And PALINDROME is more properly spelled PALINILAP Re: today's wwftd is... qajaq [Re: tsuwm] #218046 08/11/14 09:24 AM 08/11/14 09:24 AM Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 7 Ludicrana Falls F FoFong stranger FoFong   stranger F Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 7 Ludicrana Falls Originally Posted By: tsuwm FoFong> peevers heh. today's wwftd is... sonder [Re: FoFong] #218075 08/13/14 12:53 PM 08/13/14 12:53 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   OP Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 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? Re: today's wwftd is... sonder [Re: tsuwm] #218081 08/13/14 06:13 PM 08/13/14 06:13 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny   veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 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. Page 2 of 2 1 2 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 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 Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,883 Posts224,836 Members9,056 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Nikki1221, Veezkneez, LOC, Luna, wordie 9056 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 registered members (), 173 guests, and 3 spiders. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 50 LukeJavan8 24 A C Bowden 13 Wordsmith 1 LOC 1 Top Posters(All Time) wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,538 LukeJavan8 9,158 wofahulicodoc 7,968 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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