Words you love, but which you never actually use yourself

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Keemun

#20
April 07, 2010, 07:10:07 AM
Discombobulated
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

springrite

#22
April 07, 2010, 07:50:50 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on April 07, 2010, 07:47:30 AM
banjolele

You must have forgotten your Ballade for Banjolele, Op. 433?
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

knight66

#26
April 07, 2010, 08:05:38 AM
Quote from: Keemun on April 07, 2010, 07:10:07 AM
Discombobulated

Oh yes that is a good one. I remember my son had a kids book that used the word. It always made us smile.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

mahler10th

#27
April 07, 2010, 08:19:16 AM
"Marvellous Darling."

VonStupp

#28
January 16, 2022, 01:00:37 PM
My wife came across the word peduncle in the instructions of her 'tiny' crafting project today (pictured below). Can't say I would ever use it, but it was a fun find!

VS
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Karl Henning

#29
January 16, 2022, 01:20:16 PM
(* chortle *)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

André Le Nôtre

#30
January 16, 2022, 07:11:50 PM Last Edit: January 16, 2022, 07:15:32 PM by André Le Nôtre
Juche


Quote from: Keemun on April 07, 2010, 07:10:07 AM
Discombobulated

I have actually started using the word combobulated (at least around my wife who understands my sense of humor). "Hold on honey, I need to get combobulated before we go!"

vandermolen

#31
January 17, 2022, 07:37:24 AM
'My word...'

As in:

My word! Is that Jenkins on the roof?
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

(poco) Sforzando

#32
January 17, 2022, 08:06:31 AM
Jejune, lambent, ineffable, niggard.

The last means "stingy" and has no racial connotations, but it's obviously impossible today. Even in performances of Hamlet, I have heard the phrase "Niggard of question, but of our demands most free in his replies" translated to "Stingy of question . . . . "
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Karl Henning

#33
January 17, 2022, 08:12:32 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on January 17, 2022, 08:06:31 AM
Jejune, lambent, ineffable, niggard.

The last means "stingy" and has no racial connotations, but it's obviously impossible today. Even in performances of Hamlet, I have heard the phrase "Niggard of question, but of our demands most free in his replies" translated to "Stingy of question . . . . "

Yes, an unusable word now.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Papy Oli

#34
January 17, 2022, 09:03:20 AM Last Edit: January 18, 2022, 12:09:25 AM by Papy Oli
These ones always make me smile:

Kerfuffle
Whatchamacallit
thingamabob
Thingamajig

(although I use some of them ;D)
Olivier

vandermolen

#35
January 18, 2022, 12:02:37 AM
segue
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Gurn Blanston

#36
January 18, 2022, 05:58:53 AM
Rodomontade is a favorite, though it doesn't find frequent occupancy in my more casual conversations these days. Thanks to Rex Stout for it, along with a thousand other gems.   $:)

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Karl Henning

#37
January 18, 2022, 06:01:10 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on January 18, 2022, 05:58:53 AM
Rodomontade is a favorite, though it doesn't find frequent occupancy in my more casual conversations these days. Thanks to Rex Stout for it, along with a thousand other gems.   $:)

🤠😎


(* chortle *)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Szykneij

#38
January 20, 2022, 12:29:05 PM
Shucks!
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige
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