Current favourite word?

Impetus

My Snickers candy bar is trying to convince me that not only is Peanutopolis a real word, but it means "A state of mind making you feel very strong and powerful, almost mayor-like. I don't but it buy it for a moment

Also (unrelatedly): Puny and Lexicon

Scrumptious

Renege
oh yeah, and Titfer

Chortle

Yonder wrote:
Tamren wrote:

I'm reading a lot of sci-fi books right now so my current favourite would have to be "Perihelion".

What sci fi books are you reading that reference the point in an an object's orbit around the sun at which it is closest to the sun?

I think it was a Heinlein? It had spaceships in it, I remember that much. I read a lot so its hard to keep track.

Anyone read any good bonkbusters lately?

Interobang?!

Despite not anyone posting in this thread in over a month, I put forth the word: Exquisite as my current favorite word.

Spoiler:

And I bet you thought this thread was dead, didn't you?

I keep thinking of this thread when ever the word 'fungible' pops into my head. And yes, I know that having 'fungible' pop into your head is odd.

FeralMonkey wrote:

I keep thinking of this thread when ever the word 'fungible' pops into my head. And yes, I know that having 'fungible' pop into your head is odd.

Oh god I HATE that word, but only because of the inevitable argument with business folk who want to claim it now means "liquid" because that's how they're using it and usage defines definition.

That discussion always ends with me calling them assholes, which means "upstanding and intelligent citizens" because that's how I meant it and usage defines definition.

Sorry, /offtopic

LilCodger wrote:

Oh god I HATE that word, but only because of the inevitable argument with business folk who want to claim it now means "liquid" because that's how they're using it and usage defines definition.

I've not heard that usage, but I do see people use it to mean "interchangable" as in "Mr. Potato Head has fungible parts." which I think misses the whole point of the word. Fungible indicates a degree of equivalency that that definition completely misses. I don't see how you can say that Mr. Potato Head's eyes and feet, say, are fungible.

Symbiotic: the way people knowingly use each other for their mutual benefit

Been dealing with some relationship stuff and this keeps cropping up in my mind

Boondoggle (from Elysium's latest article)

As I said in my reply there, I like it not for its definition, but for the way it sounds and looks. Boondoggle!

For Boondoggle?

Infinitesimal

I currently like 'atavistic', just because it makes any phrase badass.

I also enjoy 'facade' and 'hyperbole', just because I always pronounce them wrong, having read them hundreds of times and only actually hearing either used a few years ago.

El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

I also enjoy 'facade' and 'hyperbole', just because I always pronounce them wrong, having read them hundreds of times and only actually hearing either used a few years ago.

There are so many words I've had that problem with in the past. And many times I'll pronounce a workd correctly and ask everyone around me if it was right becuase it was something I'd only read before.

My favorite example is how I thought for the longest epitome was "epi-tome" and not "eh-pit-oh-me".

Oh man, I totally did that too.

thejustinbot wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

I also enjoy 'facade' and 'hyperbole', just because I always pronounce them wrong, having read them hundreds of times and only actually hearing either used a few years ago.

There are so many words I've had that problem with in the past. And many times I'll pronounce a workd correctly and ask everyone around me if it was right becuase it was something I'd only read before.

My favorite example is how I thought for the longest epitome was "epi-tome" and not "eh-pit-oh-me".

Awry. Known the word for at least twenty years and still want to say it "AW-ree".

FeralMonkey wrote:
LilCodger wrote:

Oh god I HATE that word, but only because of the inevitable argument with business folk who want to claim it now means "liquid" because that's how they're using it and usage defines definition.

I've not heard that usage, but I do see people use it to mean "interchangable" as in "Mr. Potato Head has fungible parts." which I think misses the whole point of the word. Fungible indicates a degree of equivalency that that definition completely misses. I don't see how you can say that Mr. Potato Head's eyes and feet, say, are fungible.

Somewhere along the line some idiot heard the phrase "fungible assets" and somehow mentally equated it with "liquid assets". It spread like wildfire through upper levels of business because no one ever bothered to make sure it was a real thing and correct.

It is fun to watch the corporate counsel in the room cringe every time someone says it.

Similar to "awry", "eyrie" gets me every time.

LilCodger wrote:
FeralMonkey wrote:
LilCodger wrote:

Oh god I HATE that word, but only because of the inevitable argument with business folk who want to claim it now means "liquid" because that's how they're using it and usage defines definition.

I've not heard that usage, but I do see people use it to mean "interchangable" as in "Mr. Potato Head has fungible parts." which I think misses the whole point of the word. Fungible indicates a degree of equivalency that that definition completely misses. I don't see how you can say that Mr. Potato Head's eyes and feet, say, are fungible.

Somewhere along the line some idiot heard the phrase "fungible assets" and somehow mentally equated it with "liquid assets". It spread like wildfire through upper levels of business because no one ever bothered to make sure it was a real thing and correct.

It is fun to watch the corporate counsel in the room cringe every time someone says it.

Explain to them that by and large upper management staff are fungible, and that they will be the fungible if they don't learn to use the word properly.

Okay, I can't think of my favorite word at the moment, because I'm working a lot with words at the moment.

"Creeper," though. God damn that word. Not the Minecraft variant, mind. Creeper has replaced Creep for all intents and purposes among the under-25 crowd, and it irritates the piss out of me every time I hear it.

There is just something insane about the rise of "Creeper."

"He's a creeper." "That's a creeper move."

Clearly what happened here is someone very pretty and very stupid accidentally added an unnecessary element to that word, and it stuck because she was inordinately pretty. Jesus. Hate. There's this girl at work that I'm kinda into, and I'm now less into her because she used the word (and not about me, shocking!). That's the power of it.

Defenestrate

Today, I like the word "rubbish". No particular reason, it's just fun to say.

Patina

I found a good one yesterday, while reading Frankenstein:

encomium

For those feeling abused by corporate misuse of language, you may be interested in Unsuck It, a dictionary for groupspeak. Warning: It's fairly crass.