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Favorite words.

My current is "quetzal".

>> No.4610899

"Shrek."

>> No.4610907

bellfry

>> No.4610974

Vulnerable
Hearken
Intoxicated
Leviathan

>> No.4611014

Susurrus is a definite contender

>> No.4611016

anodyne

>> No.4611029

Lithe.

>> No.4611045

dick

>> No.4611053

>>4611045
You know, idk about favourite, but I think in terms of getting its job done, "cunt" is one of the most effective words. Nothing beat its if you want to say the most disgusting thing possible and nothing about it is not repulsive

>> No.4611056

>>4610896

unbeknownst

>> No.4611059

Endeavor.

>> No.4611066

Spiral

>> No.4611092

Coaxial

>> No.4611105

Phantasmagoria

>> No.4611124

>>4611105
just earlier today i was frantically repeating 'phantasmagorical' to myself and stopped and wondered how id sunk this far

and I like the word satyr if that counts

>> No.4611140

firmament

>> No.4611142

>>4611124
I'd walk on the other side of the street if I passed someone frantically muttering 'phantasmagorical'

>> No.4611148

>>4611142
actually people do that to me without the muttering, even guys do it pretty often

>> No.4611155

Interrobang.

>> No.4611160

"Pep pep."

>> No.4611162
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4611162

Swinishness.
And nothingth.

>> No.4611164

post

>> No.4611163

Knowledge in spanish: Conocimiento

>> No.4611174

>>4611160
there's my chippy

>> No.4611176

>>4611160
Pep Pepovich Pep

>> No.4611189

Slalom

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4611195

>>4610896
quetzalcoatl es la mejor palabra
>>4610974
all of those are terrible
>>4610896
tempest, sinewy, almohada, turnstile, solum/humus, squamous, diphenhydramine

>> No.4611197

>>4611195
>diphenhydramine
conjuring bad memories

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4611202

>>4611197
oh?

>> No.4611203

kafkaesque

>> No.4611205

"Mujeres" is a very sensual sounding word and fun to say. I don't know if I would feel this way if it were my primary language.

>> No.4611206

Reduplication
Filament

And then a bunch of non-english words.

>> No.4611207

>>4611202
i didnt mind the bugs
its the peoples voices and faces that did me in

so confusing

>> No.4611235

>>4611053
>not using it as a term of endearment

>> No.4611237

>>4610896
Mar.

>> No.4611238

velleities

It also describes me perfectly.

>> No.4611240

>>4610896
euphonious
paragon

>> No.4611254

Strengths because it has 5 consonants in a row

>> No.4612112

>>4611014
this, and also "syzygy"

>> No.4612115

juxtaposition
tree

>> No.4612689

>>4612112
edgy

>> No.4612702

quixotic

meaning impractically idealistic

>> No.4612754

>>4612702
For the longest time I had no idea how to pronounce this properly, then I finally made the connection to don Quixote.

>> No.4612771

>>4612754
Except quixotic is pronounced 'kwiksotik'.

>> No.4612786

>>4612771
No it isn't.

>> No.4612791

>>4612786
Actually it is. Look it up.

>> No.4612808

>>4612771
>>4612754
>>4612786
As it is my favorite word, it is indeed pronounced kwiksotik. 'quixote' is also a word, meaning a quixotic person, and it is pronounce kee-hoe-tee or kwik-suht.

>> No.4612819

>>4612754

kwee- hoe- tic

>> No.4612830

>>4612819
That's a made up pronunciation and not how you actually pronounce it.

>> No.4612848

>>4612791
>>4612808
But why would a word that means "like Quixote" not be pronounced the same as Quixote?

>> No.4612861

>>4612848
Platonic

>> No.4612870

>>4612848
Because that's not how languages always work. Why isn't 'denunciation' pronounced "denounce-iation"? Why isn't 'inviolate' pronounced "in-violate"?

>> No.4612873

>>4611254
>strengths
That's also the longest one-syllable word (spoken at least) I'm aware of. Quite the mouth workout.

>> No.4612889

>>4612861
That's a lot closer to Plato than kwiksotik is to Quixote.
>>4612870
Again, i can easily see how those words are just a small step away from the original, but kwiksotik is just crazy.

>> No.4612891

>>4612848
I've heard an English-speaking person (British) pronounce Quixote as 'quick-sote'.

It almost seems insulting to say it like that.

Probably that's how it's pronounced in parts of Texas too. I've never seen people pronounce Spanish words so poorly, and right next to Mexico to boot.

>> No.4612998

trebuchet

>> No.4613020

I've been thinking about "Quixotic" a lot lately...

Usual favorites are:
Tertiary
Cromulent
Unfortunate
Rickety

>> No.4614899

>>4613020
Tertiary, wonderful word. It reminds me about the word "Terra" which means earth in latin.

Phlogiston
Ostentatious
Fauna
Abscond
Relinquish
Unobtainable
Evasion
Execution

>> No.4614925

moist

>> No.4614936

>>4611195
>all of those are terrible

What? Not flowery enough?

>> No.4614940

>>4614936
I personally love "Leviathan"

>> No.4614944

>>4614899
>Abscond
absquatulate is way better.

>> No.4614948

>>4614944

This. I hope that someday someone can write a book which uses the word absquatulate without it seeming out-of-context.

>> No.4615090

>>4610896
because you're playing peace walker?

>> No.4615103

Eclectic

>> No.4615109

>>4614948

use it self awarely.

"Hey!" Jim called. "Don't absquatulate!"

Megan blinked.

"I'm working on my vocabulary." said Jim.

>> No.4615112

tort
taradiddle
fourberie
balbo
>>4611140
my man

>> No.4615118

Legiterally.

>> No.4615121

>>4615118
>impliggurn

>> No.4616423

serendipity

>> No.4616426

>>4616423
omniscient- also a great word

>> No.4616705

>>4610896
Sufficient

>> No.4616708

pedagogy

>> No.4616710

cunt

>> No.4616715

>>4611235
>>>/kangarooland/

>> No.4616719

"fuck me now!'

>> No.4616752

tektitic, adj, like tektite.

Alien, out of place in a sinister way. "The vertical stack of books in the opening scenes of Ghostbusters were not horrifying, but had a sinister, tektitic aspect."

"ThE almost routine tektitic horror of unplugging a stereo and seeing the disc continue to spin, hearing it continue to play."

>> No.4616793

implosticating

>> No.4616943

>>4611053
>nothing about it is not repulsive
Faggot detected

>> No.4616967

Labyrinthine
Rhododendron
Honorificabilitudinitatibus

rate me /lit/

>> No.4616978

>>4616967

Fuck you/10

A good word would be sardonic, since it expresses a VERY PRECISE thing - if the rest of language could be as free of ambiguity as "sardonic", the world would be a better place.

>> No.4616999

>>4616978
sardonic is a shit word

>> No.4617025

>>4616999

If you think that you're a shit person who promotes vagueness.

>> No.4617034

Sidereal
Antediluvian
Bestial
Apropos
Waft
Malaise
All of these are personal favorites.

>> No.4617036

>>4616978
Ultracrepidarian
Sesquepedalian
Loquaciousness

>> No.4617225

analfisting

>> No.4617376

Fizzle.

>> No.4617870

Czeslaw.
I love this name.

>> No.4617935
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4617935

Troposcatter
Buttrock

>> No.4617938

buttass

I'm mentally 5 years old.

>> No.4617941

Parsing.

>> No.4617945

superfluous

Its just poetic, like the "fluous" part implies what's superfluous is overflowing unnecessarily

>> No.4617952

Tabernacle
Besmirch

>> No.4617970

>>4611203
I hate this word after seeing The Squid and the Whale

>> No.4617975

Inevitable

It just feels right.

>> No.4618065

Dovahkiin

>> No.4618336
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4618336

Simultaneous

>> No.4618401

Floccinaucinihilipilification

>> No.4618405

coboundary

>> No.4618429

>>4610896
to hear "yes"
to read "colonel" (Color-Nell is how I say it in my head)
to write "O'lord"
to say "BINGO"

>> No.4618439

Doldrums
Coccyx
Jussive
Endris

>> No.4618440

oblvion

>> No.4618576

Onset
Disaster
Decade
Endeavor

Frenchfag edition:
Désastre
Cathédrale
Villégiature
Immanence

>> No.4618603

Megaseadramon

>> No.4618675

İstişare, meaning something like 'discussian assembly' in Arabic.
İstemi, a Göktürk Kagan's name.
Tigin, means prince in old Turkish (tekin is the current version)
Timür/Temür, meaning iron in not-so-old Turkish (demir is the current version)

>> No.4618837

gestalt
juxtaposition
ennui

>> No.4618861

velleity
ersatz
enfeoff
antediluvian

>> No.4618863

eisegesis

>> No.4618864

absurd
grotesque

>> No.4618973

>>4617034
Orthogonal
Azimuth(al)
Ecliptic

>> No.4618977

>>4615109
yeah, but then where's the fun? to pop out a word like that and make it not sincere/beautiful would be a waste

>> No.4618979

>>4618973
All 800 terms from Home Ground, the American landscape word preservation book.

>> No.4618981

>>4617952
> Tabernacle
you've never been to Quebec have you

>> No.4618998

ethereal
myriad
trance

>> No.4619005

>>4618576
Your French words are right-wing enough. Why aren't you published in Valeurs Actuelles yet?

>> No.4619110

The average reader's favorite words are usually very simple and positive: love, eternal, world, infinite, night, sun, more, god, life, man, music, smile, grace, fire, ocean, you, free, smell, good, heart, name, dream, bright, hope, with, day, pure, kind, morning, great, feeling, future, wide, light, always, etc.
Take any classic, put it in a word frequency counter and you'll see that the text is literally based on these words (especially man, love, time and world). I think you cannot succeed if you ignore this and choose only complex and/or negative words in your work.
For example, in De Quincey's Opium Eater, "with" appears 349 times and "without" only 51 times.
"Life": 54, "death": 13.
"Dreams": 37, "nightmare": 1.
Finally, the negative words that works the best seem to be "never", "dark" and "poor". But, as you can see, they are very simple.
Just use rarer words for some variety, to impress the reader, to lift him up; "labyrinthine" or even "endeavor" are good complements; but the heart of your writing should be composed of very basic words, and positive more than negative. What is audacious is to use common words and make them positive, or rich of another meaning, by placing them wisely (the romantics did that to death with "dark", Paul Valéry with "pure", etc.).
Also, my favorite non-basic word should be something like "ethereal".

>> No.4619238

>>4619110
Most moronic post I've ever seen. Go die in horrible circumstances, faggot!
(I'm actually the author of this post, but I'm calling myself names to beget this incomparable /lit/ touch.)

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>>4619238
stop typing

>> No.4619298

>>4619258
Has there ever been a political cartoon that wasn't completely in your face obvious?

>> No.4619305

>>4619298
no