Friday, August 21, 2009

My Name Is ___, and I'm a Lexical Neophiliac

So, I love words to ridiculousness! I know I'm supposed to be catching you up on my adventures at AFO and my Incubus concert (and I will, but still), but in my incessant internetery haunting I found a lovely and fun article about word attraction and why, and I was really excited! Apparently there was one written a week prior about word aversion which I will have to check out as well just for the sake of knowing what types of words people don't like and why. Probably for negative connotations and the like. Though I beg to differ with the author about syphilis-I do find it fun to say though I would never want to get it.
Anyway, I enjoyed the article because it was nice and fun to gain insight into what types of words people like. Its almost like a guilty pleasure of sorts (haha, imagine word porn!). It was also great to see some words that other people are making up and peddling to...whoever reads or hears them and is fascinated by them, such as myself. I love discovering and making up new words-whether they're actually real or not. Once I've made it up its just as real as anything in the dictionary. Hey, muggle made it in there-prior to JK Rowling and Harry Potter it didn't exist! Shakespeare made up words too that are still in the English language to this day!!
Also, as much as it kinda pains me, I think defriend was up for inclusion in the dictionary (I read it somewhere but I don't remember exactly where soo, don't quote me on that? I could look it, but I'm not). So, you never know!

For your entertainment here are a few of my favorite words. In general I like big words or those that are hard to pronounce or that only a dictionary could love. I also have a list longer than I can remember so here's whatever pops in my head:

*Czechoslovakia-my 5th grade class hated me for this when we made our own spelling lists
*tovarish-I'm not even sure if that's the right way to spell it, which makes me sad, but I heard it on Trinity Blood and liked it
*bicicleta
*randomosity
*majide
*entity
*shite
*nepenthe
*codswallop
*dodecahedron
*cacophony
*schizophrenia
*iliopsoas
*idiosyncratic
*somnambulance
*pseudo
*superfluous
*labyrinth
*onomatopoeia
*doppelganger
*Thonotosassa


I'm gonna come out of my trance and stop now =D
But here's a few more lists I came across
100 funniest words in English
100 most beautiful words in English

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