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Favorite words thread

Lissome

>> No.12357999

>>12357985
No you lissome pal

>> No.12358005

>>12357985
Bourgoise

>> No.12358020

Apotheosis

>> No.12358025

>>12357985

Serein

>> No.12358029

>>12357985
musketeer

>> No.12358036

sirrah

>> No.12358065

Ennui

>> No.12358081

کشمکش
Read as kashmakash. Pronounce kush like hush. So it’s kash-ma-kash
It means a mental struggle, facing a difficult problem or situation

>> No.12358092
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winona

>> No.12358103
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12358103

>>12358092
WINONA

>> No.12358113

>>12357985
>>12358092
milkies

>> No.12358114
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skull

>> No.12358148

>>12357985
>Sclerotic
>Quiddity
>Puissant
Quick, who am I referencing?

>> No.12358204

>>12358148
Michel fullcoat ?

>> No.12358205

>>12357985
Mythology

>> No.12358325

Erumpent
Annular
Strabismic
Sangfroid
Jejune
Alacrity

Guess the book

>> No.12358369

Fracas

>> No.12358742

Adamantine

>> No.12358753

>>12357985
cacophony

>> No.12359003

>>12357985
Eidolon

>> No.12359436

oblique
fuchsia
contrivance

>> No.12359460

telluric

>> No.12359467

Ligma

>> No.12359469

>>12359003
>Eidolon
dota 2 lol

>> No.12359623
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12359623

>>12357985
The day of the final toll will come for coalburners.

>> No.12359682

>>12359469
Actually Warframe tbqh

>> No.12359696

rancor

>> No.12359730

>>12359623
Women are to be controlled. Blame white men when white women fuck niggers. Weak men have allowed us to get to this state.

>> No.12359733

>>12358325
Joyce, anyway.

>> No.12359739

>>12359733
Nope

>> No.12359759

>>12357985
Nigger

>> No.12359768

>>12359739
Okay. Tell me.

>> No.12359790

>>12357999
underrated trips

>> No.12359798
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the N-word

>> No.12359854

>>12359768
Infinite Jest

>> No.12359858

>>12359854
most excellent fancy

>> No.12360062

>>12359858
David “you better have a dictionary “ Foster Wallace

>> No.12360074

>>12357985
Vouchsafe

>> No.12360085
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Ethereal

>> No.12360094

Grove

>> No.12360163

>>12358204
F U L L C O A T

>> No.12360296

>ctrl+f "strengths"
>0 results
Take the consonant pill

>> No.12360365

>>12358092
>>12358103
based

>> No.12360592

>>12357985
Verdant

>> No.12360608

antediluvian

>> No.12360656

>>12357985
Fuck

>> No.12361029

>>12359730
Cope faggot.

>> No.12361035

dong

>> No.12361060
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12361060

>>12357985
Killdozer

>> No.12361103

>>12359436
>fuchsia
This meant nothing to me until I went to my family's old farm for the first time. I had to (unfortunately) fell about 40 of them. Now the word is no longer an abstract color, but a very tangible living thing.

>> No.12361106

>>12357985
Saccharine

>> No.12361125

>>12361106
What is the draw for you?

>> No.12361137

sesquipedalian is the gigachad of words

>> No.12361140

Phantasmagoria

>> No.12361149

>>12359798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv2rpOBCq0s

>> No.12361172

Anomie

>> No.12361365

Crystalline

>> No.12361385
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epicene
alabaster
catafalque
paraprosdokian
numinous
expiate
yclept

>> No.12361434

and

>> No.12361502 [DELETED] 

Two words were particularly fun to think during my last acid trip:
apperceptive
skill

>> No.12361548

Two words were particularly fun to think during my last acid trip:
apperceptive
skill
I became very curious if there is an objective phonoaesthetics and whether we could design a language around it (some languages show obvious signs of doing this organically). Any anons care to provide some further reading?

>> No.12361615

>>12357985
Exterminatus

>> No.12361634
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12361634

>>12357985
Hieroglyphs

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>>12357985
Calentine.

>> No.12361675

>>12361548
Now this really tickles my fancy. I come up with names for companies and products for a living and have done my fair share of research. Some general ideas on this issue: 1. Issidore Isou and the lettrist movement approached poetry from a phonetic and musical perspective. The band Magma came up with a made up language for their operatic albums that focused on feeling rather than meaning. In some degree, i believe Sigur Ros does the same in some of their songs. 2. There have been studies concerning this, but not many. The first one that comes to mind tried to distinguish between big and small sounding vowels. U and O are considered large. I, E, A are considered smallish. Also, korean and french both classify vowels as "dark" and "light".

>> No.12361839

Ineffable

>> No.12361842

>>12361675
>french both classify vowels as "dark" and "light".
I'm French and I've never heard of that.

>> No.12361846

>>12357985
Coalburnerexterminationmachine

>> No.12361850

I like empyrean.

>> No.12361862

>>12359469
>>12359682
Final Fantasy IX, actually.

>> No.12361873

>>12361842
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpyXhuEJ7_c

>> No.12362025

Ephemerous

>> No.12362116

Logos

>> No.12362263

Manoeuvre

>> No.12362294

>>12357985
Just on sound alone, it's Azerbaijan for me

>> No.12362369

Desideratum is my pretentious essay word of the month

>> No.12362535
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>>12361149

>> No.12362537

>>12357985
Rizome

>> No.12362581

>>12361548
This is not really what you are asking for but maybe some things to look into:

phonesthemes (coined by J.R. Firth)-- It's the idea that certain sound combinations suggest certain meanings without necessarily being meaningful units. Like words that start with "sp" often have a meaning related to liquids-- splash, spray, spit, splatter -- or words with "gl" with light -- glow, glimmer, glamour, glint, gleam, glare. But "sp" and "gl" are not morphemes.

Also, Roman Jakobson did some research about how for example, vowel sounds with higher formant frequencies tend to be associated with small things and vowels with lower formant frequencies with large things. I can't remember where to find this though, and of course Jakobson wrote a ton of stuff.

(Oh yeah this anon mentioned this just realized >>12361675

>> No.12362614

Necrosis

>> No.12362673

>>12361125
Describes fake niceties really well, easy deacriptor for people who fake sweetness but are actually terrible people. Also a good descriptive word for pseuds who think they “get” sad art, but only alienate characters feeling actual sadness.

>> No.12362851

Superbia
溢れる

>> No.12362859

Incapacitated.

>> No.12362876

>>12357985
Breasts

Soft, succulent

Nourishing

Comforting

Juicy

With bite marks

Cigarette burns

Used & wasted

But still demanded

By cucks

Because

Breasts

>> No.12363126

>>12362876
Based

>> No.12363166

Stygian.

>> No.12363450

Dapper

The only compliment that cannot be inversely used as an insult.

>> No.12363537

>>12357985
Lugubrious

>> No.12363549

Lithe
Ambrosial
Succour
Chaise Longue
Antipodes
Cunt

>> No.12363558

>>12363450
Bet you keep your asshole real dapper.

>> No.12364316

>>12361149

No one else but her would be posting these, no?

>> No.12364348

>>12363450
I smell a femanon in here

>> No.12364648
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Slaughter

>> No.12364951

Coagulated

>> No.12365023

>>12362537
Not "rhizome"? Anyways, I see your rhizome and raise you:
>stolon
which is often misattributed as being a rhizome.

>> No.12365322

Skedaddle and all its forms

>> No.12365825

Apotheosis

>> No.12366146

First that come to mind are
Apotheosis
Apocrypha
Ethereal
Phantasia
Ultimatum
Finagle
Absynthe

>> No.12366337

Bosom

>> No.12366532

Thistle
Oath
Golden
Yeoman
Heath
Warlock
Knight
Gloaming

>> No.12366731

>>12360062
David "Two Book Marks" Foster Wallace

>> No.12367143
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Detritis
Fjord
Diatribe
Ephemeral

>> No.12367282

>>12358020
love this
>>12359003
this one too
>>12361140
and this
>>12361137
i remember learning this as a kid and thinking i was hot shit

>> No.12367831

lehamite, bulgarian for disgust

>> No.12367851

My favourite is Attritian

>> No.12367856

>>12358325
I knew this was Infinite Jest from strabismic

>> No.12368046

>>12357985
Charlotte (German pronunciation with three syllables)

>> No.12368065
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Scrumtralescent

>> No.12368122

>>12358081
کس علاقے کے ہیں آپ؟

>> No.12368123

bramble

>> No.12368398

>>12368123
You mean ramble

>> No.12368597

>>eldritch
>>brooding
>>aeons
>>cyclopean

guess the author

>> No.12368712

>>12357985
Conniptions

>> No.12368718

>>12368597
my diary desu

>> No.12368720

Vanidade
Silente
Obnubilação
Olvidar
Calhandra

>> No.12368890
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>resonance
>sentience
>serenity

honorary mention
>saudade

>>12360085
beautiful

>>12365322
based

>>12368597
lovecraft

>> No.12368912

>>12357985
gezellig

>> No.12368931

>>12368720
Adejar
Párvulo
Mirífico
Coruscante

>> No.12368935

Rape
Inseminate
Violate
Sodomize

>> No.12369189

>>12358065
^^^

>> No.12369214

>>12357985
Magnánimo
Excelentísimo
Fenomenal

>> No.12369382

Peepee

>> No.12369767

>>12357985
Fatty poo poo pants fart butt

>> No.12370323
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>>12369767
haha poo poo haha

>> No.12370408

>>12368597
Cyclopean should be at the top of the list. Also "pawed".

>> No.12370499

>>12368597
Lovecraft

>> No.12370819

>>12357985

Brabbling book

>> No.12371878

Somnambulism

>> No.12371923

WINONA

>> No.12371991

languid
adroitness
mollitude

>> No.12372165

Antithesis
Event Horizon
Bane

>> No.12373151

Evangelion

>> No.12373329
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12373329

>>12358092
>>12358103
I love her

>> No.12373988

Troglodyte

>> No.12374953

Sheeny