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Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:39 / 17.01.05

La palabra es "rocanrol."

02:35 / 30.01.05

Yo! What's the haps, bitches? I should really have waked this baby this morning... sorry I'm late. I had such a full day of moving things and talking to people, I can't tell you. Then I came home and, like, went running and took a shower and watched Mean Girls. Gosh, that Lindsay Lohan sure is pretty. I have to confess, I got a little teary-eyed, but I always feel so left out by these movies. There's never anyone who resembles me in the slightest, or the me I was in high school--whatever. It makes me feel like a talib* or something.

Also, I ate a mini-bagel fluffernutter. Living in the suburbs is turning me into some kind of... of... I dunno what.

Now I'm going to bed.

* Eh, 'lula? You like that? Is "talib" better than "schweinerei"? How about "scrofulous," you like that? Crapusculate? Pratemnatious? Abtelloscene?

10:40 / 31.01.05

Talib is not better than schweinerei, since schweinerei is one of the best words ever. And also real, which helps.

The other words you are proffering? I am not sure you can go around making up random words which vaguely sound like something else, can you? Don't you have to be a Professor or something? Isn't there a law for that?

Take Crapusculate for instance. It's clearly not a word. But it is nearly a word; I think you meant to write CrEpusculate. But I have to say that in fact this would also still not be a word because the actual word is Crepuscular.

You appear to be peering in the dimness at your words and getting them slighty wrong.

I don't like scrofulous very much because it's a little bit too near scrotum for my liking, and scrotum is not one of my favourite words.

Favourite things for sure,...just have a problem with the word itself, you know.

I don't know what Pratemnatious or Abtelloscene mean and neither does dictionary.com. so they must belong to you. Are they your words and have you created them especially for this thread? I find myself leaning towards abtelloscene, which feels like somewhere between innocent and obscene - and possibly to do with happily wearing horrible party hats.

What do they mean?

Goddamit. Don't make me wait.

13:48 / 31.01.05

I actually was trying to write "crepusculate," but I don't have your prescriptivist bent. Something crepusculates when it becomes increasingly crepuscular, as with the friscular crepusculation of autumn.

Abtelloscene, I believe, refers to an aversion to counting (not to be confused with "obtelloscene," counting in darkness). Pratemnation is a form of congratulation, especially by a professional or academic organization.

Scrofulous is just stupid, you're right. Pratemnations!

14:12 / 31.01.05

Just for the record, I bet my Weekend Warriors was less cool than yours. Mine involved dressing up as elves and orcs and rangers and hitting one another with latex swords.

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:45 / 31.01.05

Warriors…Come out to play-ay!

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All you hyperliterate souls may enjoy making new words for inclusion in the Collins dictionary.

Examples from the Independent newspaper are "geribanger: A woman who furthers her career by seducing older men of influence and power","saganaut: elderly, middle-class person with predilection for educational travel"; "mauble: a verb to describe boring, interminable conversation";"emailancholia: depressed and miserable state of mind arising from overuse of computer emails"; "nibling: a generic term for a niece or a nephew".

14:53 / 31.01.05

Those are stupid. Not like "crepuscle," a unit of darkeningness.

07:07 / 19.03.05

WHat a beautiful weekend. I'm going to do nothing.

07:46 / 19.03.05

I just got me a Capital One card! Yeah, I know, Compound interest and what have you, but cash flow problems = me living off of this thing this month - just in time for Mrs The Ball (TBC) getting over here and being loved in the most incredible way.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:51 / 19.03.05

You'll be needing that card, Benny, what with NOT being about to win the £50...

09:29 / 19.03.05

What? You can win some money? Where, how? Have I missed something?

Aaah, really, who cares. It´s probably a scam. Not worth the bother.

02:52 / 20.03.05

Not really here, just poppin'in to say "Hello". I'll be back next week. Horrid horrid cold. Nose is so raw from blowing it it looks like a Tom Savini special fx. Vancouver was amazing, this place (where Im at now, not the 'lith) is alright (I do have horses run by the window when I wake up). I've given up on my dreams of having my own cult as it seems my 3 year old niece is already far more in tune with it than I could ever hope to be.
Thats all for now...
G'night Barbelith, wherever you are...

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