ITT: Words you hate and words you love
Love:
>recalcitrant
It springs off the velum and slides into a wonderfully confrontational fricative that underscores its meaning
hate:
>pulchritudinous
It's a carcinoma. An obligation, not worth the effort to write or say or think. Unwieldy and intrusive, sounds nothing like what it means. Have never seen it used appropriately; doubt there is such a usage.
They don't have to be long.
"twig" is a fantastic word.
"mulch" embodies its meaning very well.
"inveigle' and "seraglio" just sound cool.
>>7718036
Agree with your thoughts OP, especially pulchritude.
Love
Shmuck
greatness surely self-evident
Lugubrious
a word I find hilarious, a way of saying sad so overwrought it can only be comedic
Malevolence
downright lascivious tongue and lip action (Lascivious is another one I like too)
Marooned
A howl of a word best expressed by the dog Mundo Cani
Sarcophagus
A word that rings hollow, and perhaps foreboding, at least in my mind if not the ear
Orangutang
Orangutan seems a sad echo of the jolliness of Orangutang, so Orangutang is how I say it
Indubitably-
my love stems from a giant undead bug saying it in Warcraft 3 but I like the way the syllables roll out one after another
Pareidolia, Personification, Anthropomorphize
The words less so, the meanings, very much so
Hop
almost onomatopoeia, but not quite
Hate
Onomatopoeia- can't spell it
Noisome- etymology be damned, this should have to do with sound
Ogle- I never hear it, so I always mispronounce it if I try to say it myself, and forget how to say it by the time comes to say it again. Oggle? Oh-gle?
I hate the word "pretentious" because I see it used very often in many different contexts. It's developed a very vague meaning over time and is often just a placeholder for "I don't like this".
>>7719888
I know what you mean. Seems like it's a poor way of communicating the specific details of the feeling 'I don't like this,' a dismissal rather than an actual opinion.
