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Dear c/lit/orises,

What are your favourite words?
What about most hated words?

Many hugs,

Original "faggot" Poster

>> No.3244468

Konungr. :3

>> No.3244470

Favourite word: glass
Least favourite word: sardonically

>> No.3244485

Öfsadrôp, Scandinavian cognate of English eavesdrop

>> No.3244509

Favourite: ululations or potvaliant

Least favourite: synergy

>> No.3244516

poignant: When you say the -oign- part of the word it really feels as though you are tasting the word itself and its meaning.

>> No.3244527

Favorites:
Surrogate
Auxiliary

Least favorite:
Societal
Commentate
Generalization
Objective

>> No.3244530

>>3244527
>Societal
>Commentate
>Generalization
>Objective

Seeing a pattern here..

>> No.3244588

Favourite word:
>Fatherfucker

Least favourite:
>Cray (as abbreviated 'crazy')
>Ridic (as abbreviated 'ridiculous')
Or Worse:
CrayCray

>> No.3244589

Favorite: Bodacious
Least Favorite: Pretentious

>> No.3244604

Bullshit is the worst word. One cannot expect to be taken seriously with "bullshit" as an argument.

>> No.3244639

>>3244530
What pattern is that?

>> No.3244717

Favorites:
Large, flow, loom, snag, growth, ooze, drip, crush

Least:
Albeit

>> No.3244722

>>3244589
Your favourite word has less to do with booty than I expected.

>> No.3244929

Favourite
Exiguous
Inexorable
Predilection

Least Favourite
Babe(whenever referring to a spouse)
Bro

>> No.3244964

My favourite word is probably "lascivious". I really love the way it sounds. Finding it difficult to think of any word I particularly dislike.

>> No.3244999

One of my new favorites is "diablerie."

>> No.3245011

Favourite:
-Trundle
-Cantankerous
-Viscous
-Collapse

Most Hated:
-Azure
-Liberal (as in used to describe north-american "left-leaners" (I even hate that word to describe them)--Brainwashed sheep is best and most accurate (yet 99.99% of people on earth are brainwashed sheep)

-anus
-vagina

>> No.3245044

>compound (verb)
Ever since I started using it, my capacity to into essays exploded.
>fart
Fuck that word.

>> No.3245066

>fave word
scintillate/scintillating

can't think of a most hated word

>> No.3245096
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3245096

>>3245011
You are dragging politics into this unnecessarily; you are no aesthete. Leave my presence.

>> No.3245103

echo / infinity / death / ocean / rainbow

zit

>> No.3245123

>>3244516
wonderful definition

my favorites: boon, thunderstruck, celerity, aria

>> No.3245156

>>3245096

Original "The Faggot" Poster here.

In his defense, I said nothing about not dragging the context with the words. They are just as welcome.

>> No.3245168

I think elucidate is a great word. I used to hate it, because it's completely useless. Just fucking say illuminate, yknow? But now I realize that it's really useful for writing characters that suck.

>> No.3245191

I hate "puce".

>> No.3245225

Boolean.

Fart.

>> No.3245279

"Panties" is my favorite word by far.

>> No.3245653

The word svelte is incredibly attractive to me