Favorite Words

[buxxxom]

Perhaps. No one uses perhaps anymore. Perhaps sounds better than maybe.

 

[CeriseNoire]

Perhaps. No one uses perhaps anymore. Perhaps sounds better than maybe.

I like perhaps. I use it a lot. People give me strange looks.

Crescendo (as a verb) is nice.

 

[crvygirl]

scrumptious

 

[TheEarl]

I like words that fit just so, the ones with nuances that just aren't picked up by anything simpler. Recalcitrant has so many more ideas in it than plan old reluctant. Obstreperous gives you the edge of willful disruption that you just don't get in stubborn. Garrulousness has the nudge of being over-animated and over-the-top that doesn't occur in talkative, while loquacious, which has similar synonyms, gives an air of amiability and a bit more poise. Insouciant's another favourite too.

Unfortunately, I get stopped quite often midsentence and asked to explain what I'm saying. It often confuses me as to what the other person's asking, as I tend to not know where the limits of most people's vocabularies are and am often unsure which word they're actually questioning.

The Earl

 

[only_more_so]

Perhaps. No one uses perhaps anymore. Perhaps sounds better than maybe.

What about the Cake song: Perhaps?

You won't admit you love me.
And so how am I ever to know?
You only tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
A million times I ask you,
And then I ask you over again.
You only answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.​

 

[TheEarl]

What about the Cake song: Perhaps?

You won't admit you love me.
And so how am I ever to know?
You only tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
A million times I ask you,
And then I ask you over again.
You only answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.​

It's the Coupling theme!

The Earl

 

[buxxxom]

What about the Cake song: Perhaps?

You won't admit you love me.
And so how am I ever to know?
You only tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
A million times I ask you,
And then I ask you over again.
You only answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

If you can't make your mind up,
We'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.​

I'm so not familiar with any music from the 90's on. It's pathetic.

 

[only_more_so]

It's the Coupling theme!

The Earl

I had to google and found that to be a TV show on the BBC. Right?

 

[TheEarl]

I had to google and found that to be a TV show on the BBC. Right?

That's the one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlGEi8bH0Ks&mode=related&search=

The Earl

 

[Misty_Morning]

Effervescent.

Cuz everyone I meet lately seems to have a bubbly personality.

 

[Arafura]

Gobsmacked.

 

[Misty_Morning]

kapreh utharo

 

[SimpleGifts]

"Evidently." I'm not sure why I use that word so much, other than the fact that people tend to say things that are so god-damned obvious most of the time...

SG

 

[Misty_Morning]

Happy Hour


No explanation needed.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

kapreh utharo

!!!!!!

what about...

''idhar aao jaan...meri pass lehto...''



(if you ask me nicely i'll tell you what it means )

 

[TheeGoatPig]

!!!!!!

what about...

''idhar aao jaan...meri pass lehto...''



(if you ask me nicely i'll tell you what it means )

Could you please tell me what that means?

 

[cloudy]

!!!!!!

what about...

''idhar aao jaan...meri pass lehto...''



(if you ask me nicely i'll tell you what it means )

"Noogshkaan, goopadizi animoshish!" sounds really funny when it's yelled out the window at, oh, 2 am.

 

[jomar]

Cattywampus is fun.

Awesomotion - to describe slow motion in the movie The 300 (someone on the GB used it).

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Could you please tell me what that means?

Sorry Thee, only my sleeping partner gets to find that one out

"Noogshkaan, goopadizi animoshish!" sounds really funny when it's yelled out the window at, oh, 2 am.

Pray tell sweet, what that means?

 

[cloudy]

Pray tell sweet, what that means?

"shut up, stupid dog!"

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

"shut up, stupid dog!"

*giggles* haha! mine was soooo totally unrelated!

If Misty's obsession with 'Kapreh utharo' is because it means 'take your clothes off' then ''idhar aao jaan...meri pass lehto'' is related

 

[only_more_so]

Cattywampus is fun.

Wow! That's one I haven't heard in a long time. I'm currently residing in California, the land of the idiom/colloquialism challenged. They already think I'm strange for using words like "druthers", and once I made the mistake of using the term "widdershins". Anyway, they would flip out at Cattywampus, because it even sounds made up to me, and I've used the word.

 

[Dar~]

I like Precient, sylogism, benevolent, redundant . . . I am a big word o phile
my grandma always used to say bass akwards and I like that too.

 

[jomar]

Wow! That's one I haven't heard in a long time. I'm currently residing in California, the land of the idiom/colloquialism challenged. They already think I'm strange for using words like "druthers", and once I made the mistake of using the term "widdershins". Anyway, they would flip out at Cattywampus, because it even sounds made up to me, and I've used the word.

I know what you mean. I'm from the east coast and went to school in Kentucky. I used the term "... we're on the same wavelength" with a group of people (who were from a variety of states!) and they looked at me like I had farted or something. I had thought it was a pretty common saying.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I know what you mean. I'm from the east coast and went to school in Kentucky. I used the term "... we're on the same wavelength" with a group of people (who were from a variety of states!) and they looked at me like I had farted or something. I had thought it was a pretty common saying.

I've lived on the east coast for my entire life, and I've used wavelength. I have no idea what was wrong with them.