Happy Ground Hog Day!I love words
I like to feel words roll off my tongue...
certain words such as demographical,
metamorphosis, philanthropy, expostulation. I like the sound
of them as the waves hit my inner ear.
Not that I use these words in conversation or in writing. I just like to be 'acquainted' with them.
I certainly don't go around every day singling out vital or social statistics of a human population, as the number of births or deaths. But I do like the word it represents.
Words are like people in your life; you have your family who you're around the most, your friends who you are around frequently, and your acquaintances who you are around occasionally.
There's a word describing people who are afflicted with the love of words: Lexophilia
According to Wikipedia, Lexophiles, lovers of words, derive pleasure from amassing a complex, variegated, and broad vocabulary. Although not all lexophiles use their vocabulary in everyday speech, most lexophiles pride themselves in their knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homonyms. Lexophiles generally appreciate the nuances surrounding different words, and they normally strive to select the best word for a given circumstance.
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Below are some examples of the fun that lexophiles can derive from the use of words. Sharpen your thought processes or you might not be able to relate!
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Not that I use these words in conversation or in writing. I just like to be 'acquainted' with them.
I certainly don't go around every day singling out vital or social statistics of a human population, as the number of births or deaths. But I do like the word it represents.
Words are like people in your life; you have your family who you're around the most, your friends who you are around frequently, and your acquaintances who you are around occasionally.
There's a word describing people who are afflicted with the love of words: Lexophilia
According to Wikipedia, Lexophiles, lovers of words, derive pleasure from amassing a complex, variegated, and broad vocabulary. Although not all lexophiles use their vocabulary in everyday speech, most lexophiles pride themselves in their knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homonyms. Lexophiles generally appreciate the nuances surrounding different words, and they normally strive to select the best word for a given circumstance.
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Below are some examples of the fun that lexophiles can derive from the use of words. Sharpen your thought processes or you might not be able to relate!
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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
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Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
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Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
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The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
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The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
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To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
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When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
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The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
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A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
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A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
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Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
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We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
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When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U .C.L.A.
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The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
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The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky Ground.
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The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
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If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
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A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
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A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
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A will, is a dead giveaway.
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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
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A backward poet writes inverse.
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In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
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A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
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If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
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With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
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Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A- flat miner.
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When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
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The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
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A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France , resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
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You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
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Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
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He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
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A calendar's days are numbered.
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A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
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A boiled egg is hard to beat.
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He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
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A plateau is a high form of flattery.
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Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
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When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
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If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine .
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When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
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Have a great, lexophillic day!
Have a great, lexophillic day!
10 comments:
If the wind ever blows you this way & we're in front of the fire eating biscuits , just make sure your just acquainted with these words & not in conversion , But if you want to we can expostulate over it. Maybe I can reason with u
Inspired
Thanks for another good post. Oh, I finished updating my will last week: A will, is a dead giveaway. Oh yes I concur.
Have a productive TEXAS weekend.
cfs
I love words too, so this post just made my morning. My favourite word at the moment - discombobulate.
crabby: Just keep the fire going and the biscuits made. I will be most delighted to expostulate anything you would like to expostulate...
cfs: heehee! My favorite is about the photographic memmory that hasn't been developed!
tim: You mean like when some of our presidential candidates are completely discombobulated by the harangue of their opposition???
cfs:
memory
NOT
memmory!
I HAVE BEEN CALLED A FLOCULATER.
expostulate... Is this anything like gas ?
chikenherder
crabby: I don't think I'll "touch" this one!
chikenherder: uummmmm!! don't think so!! (heehee)
Y'all are having waaaaay too much fun!!
You might want to grow corn as a second crop! LOL! Semantics is a big part of what I value. How you say it, how you write it- can mean alot! Good stuff today...
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