Question #180 Book Words
I'm actually a huge fan of them.
What is your favorite book word? If you don't care for book words, which one annoys you the most?
If you have no idea what I am talking about, you can read more about book words here.
Monday, December 3, 2007
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My favorite book word is grandiloquent. It's a word used to describe overly-lofty speech, but the word itself is just as high-falutin'. It's way self-referential and post-modern and stuff.
My favorite is "expediate". Phil, Ryan, Sarah W. & I talk about it in A Very Serious Conversation #22.1.
I'm a big fan of book words. Once I was given an F on my senior project because my paper was so long and full of bookwords that it was believed to be plagerized. My teacher humiliated me in front of my class with the accusation and her reasoning was 'This isn't how you speak to your peers'. Three garbage bags of notes on her desk meant for a big retraction (also in front of the class), and an A grade. So, for making this horrible excuse for a teacher grovel publicly, I esteem book words greatly!
One of my faves is :
Replete.
I'm still working on a way to use [Sic] in my everyday conversation.
I don't really like juxtapose or hegemony cause I had to hear them in every sentence while I was in college. I like fulminate though, it means to explode but also to explode verbally.
pedagogy.
'nuff said.
My favorite book word is "Glossary" and "Table of Contents". I also like "Forward" and "Introduction".
That was me, BTW
I fucking hate book words because they are used 98% of the time by dudes that are pseudo intellectuals trying to sound like they are educated when talking to chicks. That, or when a chick is in the company of someone that is smarter than she is will often use these words incorrectly to feel like a princess or not as stupid.
What I really hate is when hippies use these words so they sound 'well-read'. That shit makes me want to die.
my favorite book word is "espadrilles" (i like how it sounds and i think its funny what they are) but the only books i read are magazines with teenage girls as the target audience.
this dude like word from book. this dude know that some guys don't like book word. word game make this dude stop with book word. take that book word.
My favorite book word is "onomatopoeia". I realize this is a common enough word so-as to barely qualify(or quantify[ha ha in your face victor]) for book word status, however it's definition was the last really good example of when I was right and Jake was wrong.
I guess you could say that I like it for sentimental reasons.
I find most "book words" or maybe a subcategory of "lawyer's book words" annoying - ending sentences with "thereof" or starting sentences with "Assuming, arguendo," or "heretofore."
I can't believe how many lawyers use these unnecessary words rather than making their legal writing clear and concise. It drives me nuts and I hope it drives the judges nuts too.
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