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Post 3021

Proudwart, AKA Connorchap.

>>Spell it<<
Sorry, but I'd grow old by then, and besides, there's a new Strong Bad email that I haven't seen, However, I can tell you what my favorite word is: floccinausinihilipilification; the study and catagorization of unimportant and worthless things. (Which, coinsidentally, is what this conversation forum is all about.)
Proudwart (who was #3000!)
smiley - dragon


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Post 3022

Baron Grim

Floccinausinihilipilification... Yea, that's a good 'woody' word.

I like Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. Especially when you break the word down.


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Post 3023

The_Admiral(aka Avatar)

And here I thought that was the fear of hippopotomi.


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Post 3024

Baron Grim

Very loquatious hippopotomi that like foot and half long words.


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Post 3025

A Super Furry Animal

Hippopotamus means "river horse".

I am, unfortunately, woefully ignorant of their ability to vomit underwater.

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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Post 3026

Galigan

smiley - headhurts

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Post 3027

A Super Furry Animal

Nope, nothing about hippopotami vomiting underwater on either of those links...smiley - erm

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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Post 3028

Galigan

no, but a lot about long words. i think we simulposted.


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Post 3029

The_Admiral(aka Avatar)

Is there a long word that means "to vomit underwater"?


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Post 3030

Galigan

wouldn't have thought so...yet. smiley - evilgrin


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Post 3031

Baron Grim

yes... the word is "Explunge".


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Post 3032

Galigan

not particularly long though is it?


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Post 3033

The_Admiral(aka Avatar)

no, but that would make the act of vomiting underwater explungification, wouldn't it? Not too bad.


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Post 3034

Pinniped


Underwater Vomiting...
This is quite probably already in the thread somewhere (apols if so), but in case we all missed it, here's a classic piece of the masterful Bywater on the eternal subject. See note 2 :
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Post 3035

Wilma Neanderthal

I have it on good authority that these arabic words vomit underwater: bint, alchemy, algebra, alcohol... but these ones can't as they are the same as spanish - and spanish doesn't count coz it needs a translation in parentheses: kalset (socks), zaytoon (olive)
W


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Post 3036

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Isnt it

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Post 3037

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

<<The word Naff used by ronnie barker in porridge is part of an underground language used by gay people & it means Not Available For F**king.>>

Isn't this 'fact' from the same school of thought which suggests that 'f**k' itself was an acronym of Forced, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?

Some more facts about words:
Bloody is not a contraction of 'by our lady'.

'Octopi' is not a valid plural of 'octopus' (the word is Greek in origin, therefore the plural is 'Octopodes').

The word c**t (thought to have first been written down by Chaucer who spelt it 'Queynte') originally referred to a full scabbard for a sword or dagger.


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Post 3038

Beatrice

Hippophobia means fear of horses.


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Post 3039

WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean.

I think that's a bit of red herring Mr D, while your scabbard my have evolved from Chaucer, my little ole OED gives kunta, from middle English and kunte from French. I take it your're improving a tad, what.


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Post 3040

Shhhhh

Mr D and WA - maybe you should watch "Balderdash and Piffle" - BBC2 every Monday evening - they discussed the scabbard v the French version last night smiley - winkeye


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