Words you've never used

acid_kewpie · 12-19-2004, 04:41 PM

Ranom thought entry number 7374:

How many words do you know and understand yet have never actually been spoken outloud by yourself? Take a minute to think about words that you've never said despite having heard them on the news, read them in books etc...

for the first time in my life today i said the word schadenfreude and in a sentence at that. i was well pleased with myself...

so go for it! say a word for the first time ever! impress your work colleagues with your newly realised vocabulary!

jonr · 12-19-2004, 06:25 PM

I don't think I've ever used "confabulation" outloud. I have been using Schadenfreude for years, though. Not on a daily basis, understand...

floppywhopper · 12-19-2004, 07:19 PM

"Reik-link-lauf-Schlag-bore machine" is a good ( German ) word. It means - sort of- "hammer drill" in English. Now I own a Bosch Hammer Drill but Bosch is a German ( or Swiss ? ) Company so its a "Reich-link- louf-Shlage-borh machine". The Germans are good at words like that. Its got a good meaty sound to it, Hammer drill sounds tinny!

I've lost the instruction sheet for the drill now so my apologies for spelling.

live long and prosper
floppy

Dommy · 12-19-2004, 09:51 PM

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is certainly a word I rarely use out loud. See, Germans aren't the only ones who can invent reallllly long words

pevelius · 12-20-2004, 02:30 AM

i rarely use "epäjärjestelmällisyydettömyydellänsäkäänköhän" and for those without scandinavic leteters it is "epaejaerjestelmaellisyydettoemyydellaensaekaeaenkoehaen"

it means something along the lines: i wonder if maybe even without his un-orderly fashion...doh. this is impossible to translate perfectly, at least for me.

it´s finnish btw. and a real word.

pevelius · 12-20-2004, 02:44 AM

here is another example from sweden. it´s even better, though it is made from many words unlike my finnish example

nordästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskuss ionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten

and it means:

the preparing work for the support of the discussion of the upkeep of the maintanance material of the airspace monitoring simulator equipment of the coastal artillery of northern baltic sea

scuzzman · 12-20-2004, 03:34 AM

I rarely use floccinaucinihilpilification - trivialize, belittle

MasterC · 12-20-2004, 04:05 AM

I'm quite the opposite. I use words I have no idea their meaning, but have a good idea of their rough meaning from where I took them (the context in which they were used).

Cool

auditek747 · 12-20-2004, 07:46 AM

Netbeui ... ?

acid_kewpie · 12-20-2004, 08:04 AM

i know lots of long words too... but which small words, which potentially everyday words have you never used?

slackist · 12-20-2004, 08:05 AM

From urbandictionary.com:

Quote:

1. defenestration

v. The act of throwing something or SOMEONE out of a window.

on witnessing the disposal of a cigarette from the window of a moving car: "That was a heinous act of defenestration!"

I really want to use this word; "Kindly defenestrate him" but I always forget and say "Ah, just chuck him out of the window"

Life can be so frustrating

mark

esteeven · 12-20-2004, 08:06 AM

Strangely enough, I hadn't used "hirsute" for years ---- and then I suddenly used it this morning. I expect I'll use "porcine" before the Christmas period is over.

acid_kewpie · 12-20-2004, 08:09 AM

someone get's it!!! yeah... i don't think i've said "hirsuit" outloud either.... rock on tommy.

jonr · 12-20-2004, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
i know lots of long words too... but which small words, which potentially everyday words have you never used?

Ooh... If it's a question of small words, I don't know how to find the answer in my febrile, Xorg-benumbed brain. It's like trying not
to think of an elephant...

Cron · 12-20-2004, 09:55 AM

Nebeprisikiskiakopusteliaudamas - The longest lithuanian word

( in latin letters)

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