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Feb. 9th, 2009

  • 11:57 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Ellipsis)
You. Yes, you. You like words? Of course you do; you're on LiveJournal, after all.

Save The Words.

A website where you can adopt words that may otherwise sadly fall into disuse, and be dropped from the Oxford dictionary. Dropped! Imagine - words that are no longer real words. A fate akin to death. For words, that is.

I myself have adopted ficulnean. When, for example, I tell you that fig-tree trunks often bear large nodal tumors, where branches have been shed or removed, I am giving you some ficulnean information. Ficulnean: worthless information regarding fig-tree wood. Yes, there is a word for that. Aren't you glad to know it?

There are plenty more where that came from - words such as woundikins, artigrapher, dodrantal, xenization, and teterrimous (none of which are recognised by LJ's own spellchecker).

No, I don't know if there's a point to this website. Frankly, nor do I care. I just couldn't resist their little voices, crying out, "Me, me! Pick me!" 


Comments

ext_3440: (Default)
[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 10th, 2009 12:51 am (UTC)
Oh!

And OOOOOH! :-)
ext_3314: Woman writing (Default)
[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 10th, 2009 12:58 am (UTC)
And vargeous: resembling a rod.

*g*
ext_3440: (Default)
[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 10th, 2009 12:59 am (UTC)
Why do I feel a crack!obscure word!fic coming on? :-)
[identity profile] binkii822.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 10th, 2009 03:38 am (UTC)
*points to icon* That rules the universe!
ext_3314: Woman writing (Default)
[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 10th, 2009 10:23 am (UTC)
Hee. It was inspired by Annerb, and drawn by me.

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