Equester Posted January 1, 2005 Report Posted January 1, 2005 Ode to Unused Words It would be betise, chicane, and outright effrontery to see truth as bedizen. On the other hand: To nictate pugnaciously At feral prevarication is not nocent when one osculates with condign gelidity, that the conflagrant truth is That evil presides in the abyss. Scrabble: The preeminent game of my youth...
Tanuchan Posted January 1, 2005 Report Posted January 1, 2005 *goes look for a dictionary, shaking her head* lol You know, just reading the words if fun After I get all the meaning, I'll be able to comment better... hopefully... *still chuckling, starts looking up the words*
dragonqueen Posted January 2, 2005 Report Posted January 2, 2005 I've no idea what most of those words mean, and if I didn't know better I'd swear you made half of them up. Once you've defined them all, the poem does make sense, right? Splendid poem!
Peredhil Posted January 2, 2005 Report Posted January 2, 2005 It makes sense. About the only one which has to be stretched in my opinion is "condig". It can be used there, but I'd always thought that contextually it has more of a sense of being used in reference to being deserved for punishment or wrongdoing of some type, which is opposition to the sense drawn by saying that the prevarication is not nocent. I'm willing to forgive that because of the clever contrast drawn between gelidity and conflagrant. Pendantic Peredhil
Equester Posted January 2, 2005 Author Report Posted January 2, 2005 Thankyou all for your comments, and my thanks to Peredhil for his forgiveness
Gryphon Posted January 3, 2005 Report Posted January 3, 2005 I have on occation managed to remember and provide some pretty strange words in the midst of a scrabble game... but that's just ... wow. I love it, and I'm going to copy it down somewhere so that I can go through the dictionary looking up each of those words in my own time and figure out exactly what it was that you just wrote... Then I'm going to try and use as many of those words as I can to confuse the hell out of someone else.
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