Sep. 6th, 2007

arethinn: glowing green spiral (Default)
Arethinn says:
*ding* *gives this fic points for using a word like "plutocrat"*
i gave someone "fifty House points" today for using the word "haring" in a fic, too
they said "yay! Ravenclaw rules!" and I tried to think of a spoof on "wit beyond measure" which included the word "vocabulary", but a rhyming dictionary agreed with my brain that the only word that rhymes with that is "constabulary"
and so, alas
earwax
tentatively, maybe, "confabulary"
although that's a word arrived at by analogous transformation, constable, constabulary; confabulate, confabulary...
and while i suppose it's true that "a healthy vocabulary aids in confabulary!" that doesn't really work; confabulation is the noun; also it just doesn't have the same ring to it. lol.

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...English isn't so much a language, as a Tinker-Toy set.
arethinn: glowing green spiral (happy pleased (moon's daughter))
Arethinn says:
*ding* *gives this fic points for using a word like "plutocrat"*
i gave someone "fifty House points" today for using the word "haring" in a fic, too
they said "yay! Ravenclaw rules!" and I tried to think of a spoof on "wit beyond measure" which included the word "vocabulary", but a rhyming dictionary agreed with my brain that the only word that rhymes with that is "constabulary"
and so, alas
earwax
tentatively, maybe, "confabulary"
although that's a word arrived at by analogous transformation, constable, constabulary; confabulate, confabulary...
and while i suppose it's true that "a healthy vocabulary aids in confabulary!" that doesn't really work; confabulation is the noun; also it just doesn't have the same ring to it. lol.

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...English isn't so much a language, as a Tinker-Toy set.

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