Fandom Discussion: The Increase Your Vocabulary Thread

[themostepotente]

Hello, and welcome to the 'Increase Your Vocabulary' thread. And really you can thank petulantgod for my next couple of discussions. Not only is he a brilliant writer, but *le gasp*, he's very entertaining.

I know that certain words in fics click with me -- just like some words leave me cold. Some just sound sexy. Some convey their meanings better. Others just look cool.

Now then -- what's the objective of this thread, you ask? Simple. Post a word you may have used in a fic of yours with the definition. This should be a word you don't see or hear in every day conversation -- hence the increasing your vocabulary bit :P

My word for this thread is sibilant -- having, containing, or producing the sound of or a sound resembling that of the s or the sh in sash [a sibilant snake]

Go to it. *G*

--P

Comments

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

My word is rhabdomacy, which means "divination by rods or wands." I extrapolated "rhabdomantical" from it as a way to describe a wizard's sexual prowess: "Lucius Malfoy’s rhabdomantical talents were the stuff of legend by his sixth year at Hogwarts . . . ."

I love my OED.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Yay! I have never seen that word before. And isn't that the truth -- about Lucius's sexual prowess? *G*

[starkittyn.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'd never seen that word before. I get the word of the day rss feed and it's always coming up with cool words. :)

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

I get the M-W word of the day. I'm almost never surprised by the word. What feed do you receive?

[starkittyn.livejournal.com]

I get this one

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=dictionary_wotd

And this one
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=wordsmith_daily

the wordsmith one tends to have more unusual words than the other

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Ooo, cool! Thank you. :)