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What is everyone on /lit/'s favorite word?

>> No.1541938

Defenestration.

>> No.1541941

ridiculous!

>> No.1541946

chunky

>> No.1541944

>>1541938
It's one of the best.

>> No.1541949

Smorgasbord

>> No.1541956 [DELETED] 

"Paraprosodokian" and as a close second simply for the sound "Etiquette"

>> No.1541959

Finality

>> No.1541962

"Paraprosdokian" and as a close second simply for the sound "Etiquette"

>> No.1541963

moist

>> No.1541965

Expunged.

>> No.1541969

the

>> No.1541971

>>1541962

Thank you anon for that new word.

>> No.1541973

persnickety

>> No.1541974

eldritch

>> No.1541981

I've always liked 'jejune'

And yeah >>1541962
Etiquette is gorgeous

>> No.1541998

>>1541981
Glad to hear someone else likes it.

>> No.1543960

dog

>> No.1543963

haberdashery

>> No.1543970

pittoresk

>> No.1543968

'Antediluvian' is a favourite of mine.

>> No.1543978

Common enough, but still good.

"Insufferable"

>> No.1543982

>>1543978
i can see why you are fond of that word

>> No.1543993

Eosophageal.

>> No.1543995

villainy

>> No.1543996

Accoutrements

>> No.1544012

machiavellian

>> No.1544019
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1544019

fuck

>> No.1544021

glass

>> No.1544024

>>1544012

because it sounds like a hand in a ruffle sleeve holding a dagger.

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>>1544012

That's my favorite, too.

>> No.1544038
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1544038

Obsequious or scrumptious.

I love the way they feel when pronouncing them. Also the Russian language in general is mouthgasmic.

'Devushka, proshu proshenya?'

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1544044

>>1544027

WERE IDENTICAL FAVOURITE WORD TWINS

>> No.1544046

Oh wait.

"Obfuscate"

>> No.1544048
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1544048

That makes me all warm and tingly down there.

>> No.1544053

>>1544038

i love russian accents, and eastern europe accents in general. theres this latvian woman at work who like the most beautiful woman ive ever seen and shes like 40, i didnt hear her talk for about a month after i started. i was using a dustpan and brush she passed me a broom and said "you like sweep?".

as a matter of fact kristine, i think im falling in love with sweep.

>> No.1544068

Fuliginous.
I love learning new words from the books I read.

>> No.1544087

>>1544068

Start reading Cormac McCarthy. If you care to learn the words he uses, your vocabulary will explode.

>> No.1544095

Pretentious.
Because it describes so many people and organizations.
Including /lit/

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>>1544053
There were a few Russian students at my college. One day i was talking to the only one who wasn't there to play tennis and I was thinking about how hot she was. Then she stopped talking and i realized she was actually quite plain. It was just the accent that was hot.
>mfw

>> No.1544131

>>1541938
Well singe my nasal hair and call me a simian, but I was about to post the very same word.

>> No.1544156

Ersatz

close second: subjugation

>> No.1544188

Ethereal. I've personally yet to see it used, though I know it's obviously been used before.

>> No.1544191

>>1544188
It hasn't, in fact.
Grats on coining a brand new word.

>> No.1544203

Diaphanous

>> No.1544205

>>1544191

wat. I'm pretty sure "ethereal" is a word...

>> No.1544212

irregardless

>> No.1544214

>>1544191

Grats on not knowing shit about the English language.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethereal

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1544220

>>1544191

>> No.1544237

>>1544191

That's either F- grade trolling, or you're losing your grip, Mr. VeeDubya. Either way, maybe put the pipe down for a bit, get a grip. Maintain dude, maintain.

>> No.1544242

>>1544237
>implying I can chong out in Glorious People's Republic
>implying I was trying to troll you, bro

>> No.1544244

>>1544191
Far too often do we see tripfags fuck up this goddamn bad.

Why even have a trip? We just remember your fuck-ups. If you were Anonymous, nobody'd remember or care.

>> No.1544253

>>1544244
Just becoming immortal bro.

>> No.1544254

>>1544242

When I was teaching in China, the farmers used to plant hemp around their crops to keep the insects away, or some shit. You could pick up handfuls of low-grade weed for free. Maybe they don't do it anymore, who knows?

>> No.1544257

>>1544253
On an ephemeral message board?

Delusion loves you for buying so much of her stock.

>> No.1544259

>>1544253
Shame on a nigga

>> No.1544298

>>1544257
Your ability to detect a lack of sincerity is astounding.
>>1544259
Who try to run game on a... *ahem* dude.

>> No.1544309

Throb

I love consonant clusters

Or cunt. I like that one as well. It's the best swear I know in any language, you can really spit it at someone.

>> No.1544322

I'd say "scrotum"

>> No.1544333

Redemption.

But only because I'm beyond it.

>> No.1544352

MAELSTROM

>> No.1544367

Requisite

I know, WTF.

>> No.1544407

Fucking

>> No.1544409

Passion

>> No.1544422

fluid

you describe something as a fluid and it immediately sounds dirty lol

>> No.1544423

Ennui

because it never fails to annoy

>> No.1544449

Somniloquence. Mostly useless, but beautiful.

>> No.1544455

Pedophilia

>> No.1544473

It's been said before, but I think "fuck" should be lauded for its utility. Unlike other words, such as "bias" or "pretentious" or "troll," it's managed to find many uses without every becoming vague in its application or meaning.