Word of the Week

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  1. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Oluum \auh-loom\ noun

    A great loss, opposite of victory. He experienced an oluum when his father and mother died.

    Enjoy! I shall endeavor to put one of these up every week. Tuesday is new word day!
     
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  3. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    this smells like a word thread to me
     
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  5. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    No, not at all. I wouldn't dream of it!
     
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  7. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    can anyone else post in this thread?


    edit: i find it ironic that the moderators decided to not accept word threads anymore and the next day a moderator starts a new word thread.
     
  8. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    That is not irony.
     
  9. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    what is it then?
     
  10. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Cool \kool\ adjective

    A moderate state of cold. Fanned with cool winds.
     
  11. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    i·ro·ny P Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-)
    n. pl. i·ro·nies

    The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
    An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
    A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.

    Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).
    An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.

    Dramatic irony.
    Socratic irony.


    and if we take this meaning of irony
    Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

    we might find it applicable in this case
     
  12. IXL777 mature with wisdom Registered Senior Member

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    word of the week should be Vagina......has a nice ring to it!!

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    p.s.Spurious is obviously right...
    quote:i find it ironic that the moderators decided to not accept word threads anymore and the next day a moderator starts a new word thread.
    I always remember an old Army adage..don't do what I do do what I say...that has a ring of vagina about it!!!

    p.s this is all irony!





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    :m:
     
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  13. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    pyjamas is a nice word
     
  14. IXL777 mature with wisdom Registered Senior Member

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    That has irony in it!

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    :m:
     
  15. Lesion42 Deranged Hermit Registered Senior Member

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    lesion: any wound capable of causing loss of function; a morbid change in the organs.

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  16. IXL777 mature with wisdom Registered Senior Member

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    Hypocrisy........pretence of virtue

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  17. reformedtopunk got punk? Registered Senior Member

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    irritating:
    posters who don't get their own way regarding "word" threads, so they complain when someone posts a VOCABULARY thread, that is to be updated once a week, as opposed to every three seconds adding more useless drivel to the already steaming pile.

    Pollux, where the hell did you come up with that one?

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  18. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Reformed,

    Over the weekend I met this Indian guy at a friend's house, and he told me that Oluum was originally a Hindu word but that when the English took over India it was adopted by them.
     
  19. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, and by the way, a vocabulary thread that does more than post simple words for a debatable comedic affect cannot be compared to a vocabulary thread. A vocabulary one actually has some measure of autonomy to it

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  20. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    say this fast ten times

    diisoproplyamimoethylphosphonothiolate


    It's a chemical name a of a the worlds most powerful nerve gas. No i don't know if this is ironic or not but look at the chemical name diisoproplyamimoethylphosphonothiolate and look at the name of the gas it self VX . I guess the scientists got tired and kept a small name.:bugeye:
     
  21. crazylemon Registered Member

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    can i even say that word ? :bugeye:
     
  22. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    sure you can...let me try my best to get it here goes


    (dye-so-pro-pella-me-moe-thy-ul-phos-phono-thy-oh-late)
     
  23. BloodSuckingGerbile Master of Puppets Registered Senior Member

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    <small>Llanfeirpuillguindjillgodjerichuirndrobuillantisiliogogogoch.</small>

    Speaking about long names, this one is a name of a railroad station somewhere. I took it from a book about trains and I'm not sure if there actually is such a railroad station because the name doesn't make any sense.

    Oh, if you want really long words, go to germany and buy a shampoo.

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