And I'd already come up with the first draft of tags I was going to let you check off for my posts. Here at the most special place on the Internet, you are special too. Or, you would be, if I could canvas your full range of reactions. In case things change in the future, I'll leave myself a note with the words I think make for a nice set of reactions, on first consideration. Meanwhile, we'll have to stick with the clunky comments system.
- acrimonious
- anile
- aperient
- arch
- contumacious
- contradictious
- effulgent
- effusive
- jejune
- lachrymose
- laconic
- logomachical
- loquacious
- mendacious
- obsequious
- ostentatious
- periphrastic
- piquant
- sanguine
- vitriolic
- vituperative
This is a really good list. I had to look several of these up. And I looked up some that I *thought* I knew, just to be sure. That's always a good exercise.
ReplyDeleteMost revelatory moment: anus is Latin for old woman.
Logomachical isn't in Merriam Webster's online. I like how the definitions I read managed to never mention semantics, which seems like a logical and related term.
I of course looked up all of these as well. There are a couple of redundant ones, but since I couldn't actually use the list, I didn't bother to edit them out.
ReplyDelete'Logomachical' is a brand-new one for me (one of several). My old-fashioned wood pulp Random House Webster's College Dictionary of 1992 gives it as the adjectival form of logomachy: (1) a dispute about or concerning words; (2) an argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words.
Sort of a funny pairing of senses there, and of course I was hoping people would use it more in the second sense.