View Full Version : Ten dollar word challenge anyone?
Violet1966
08-06-2007, 01:07 PM
One of the things I've always wanted to do, was broaden my vocabulary. I've learned words I've since forgotten due to lack of use, and there's words out there I still have to look up when I see them. I think it would be fun to have a ten dollar word of the day or even week, where someone posts a word, and we all discuss where it originated from and means and proper use of the word examples, and then try to use that word properly outside of this forum as sort of a challenge. Not going out of our way to use it, just remember it exists and use it where it can be used. :)
Anyone have a good word? LOL :)
ethics
08-06-2007, 01:27 PM
What I can do is set up a bot that posts a "word of the day" here, only once a day?
Violet1966
08-06-2007, 01:28 PM
That's a good idea and will be fun as well! :happy:
Brazbit
08-06-2007, 01:56 PM
One I have been having fun with is Tautological (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tautological) as it describes my writing style so well. I have a habit of saying the same thing over and over just rewording it so that it is not the same wording as the original wording and so people don't recognize that I am repeating the same information that I already presented earlier since it has been redone in a slightly different format than the original wording so as to camouflage the redundancy of what I an saying and the fact that it is the same as what came before.
mikeky
08-06-2007, 01:59 PM
Could you repeat that?
Brazbit
08-06-2007, 02:00 PM
I don't think so. I make it a policy not to repeat myself as that would be a useless reproduction of effort that I have already expended before so I refuse to do it.
From the thread title, I thought she was searching for an English word that rhymes with orange. :)
ShinyTop
08-06-2007, 10:00 PM
One I have been having fun with is Tautological (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tautological) as it describes my writing style so well. I have a habit of saying the same thing over and over just rewording it so that it is not the same wording as the original wording and so people don't recognize that I am repeating the same information that I already presented earlier since it has been redone in a slightly different format than the original wording so as to camouflage the redundancy of what I an saying and the fact that it is the same as what came before.
My sig would apply to you for that post.:)
ravital
08-07-2007, 01:14 AM
One of the things I've always wanted to do, was broaden my vocabulary. I've learned words I've since forgotten due to lack of use, and there's words out there I still have to look up when I see them.
Here's an idea for you: Famous sayings in different words.
Examples:
People who make their abode in vitrous edifices should refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
It is futile to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
Eleemosinary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
He who represents the ultimate cachinnation, possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
It is futile to become lachrymose over prematurely departed lacteal fluid.
The temperature of the aqueous contents of an unremittingly ogled cooking utensil never reaches 212 degrees F.
Enjoy :)
joseftu
08-07-2007, 04:43 PM
Hmm...I'm giving extra credit to those who spot spelling errors in the restated maxims above!
;) (I found two)
(I'm just teasing. There's nothing more obnoxious than gratuitous spell-checking, and those were hilarious, Rav! :))
Fiona
08-07-2007, 04:50 PM
only two? i thought there were several... but I overlook those things. I'd go nuts if i paid attention to misspellings.
Now on to more important things.
Paid or Payed.
It seems like common usage has done away with payed. I, personally, find it incorrect to use paid in my above statement to Joe. *groan
To me, and what was common when I was being taught, paid refers to the object. A bill was paid.
I think payed should be the past tense of the active verb. Speaking in circles. Sorry. Goes for protein. :blank:
Fiona
08-07-2007, 04:51 PM
Oh. And. Eleemosynary. Vitreous.
ravital
08-07-2007, 04:55 PM
Hey, I hang out here because if I need a correction, I apprecate it :)
Fiona
08-07-2007, 04:56 PM
Hey! I hang out here because if I need a correction, I appreciate it :)appreciate.
:rofl:
Violet1966
08-07-2007, 08:00 PM
Paid is the only word I ever knew existed for past tense of pay. Like lay. Laid is the only way I've known how to use lay in past tense. I wonder if it used to be layed? Payed? Just doesn't look right to me. If I was supposed to use it somewhere, well, I don't. LOL
And Rav LMAO I don't see myself remembering those anytime too soon! ;)