Compendium of Lost Words

So you think that habroneme isn’t English? Or obrumpent. Ah, you foppotee, you should be pudified. You need to see this.

Dicaearchies, though, are just a figment of our imagination.

4 Comments

  1. Posted July 2, 2006 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

    I love his list of favorite words.

    ‘Tis Galimatias.

  2. Posted July 2, 2006 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

    What’s your favourite word, incidentally? Mine’s paralepsis…any my favourite form of repartee.

  3. Posted July 2, 2006 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    Simulacra definately. Can’t have enough of that word.

  4. Posted July 2, 2006 at 10:08 pm | Permalink

    Ohh, and Spannungsbogen.

    From Dune:
    The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called �spannungsbogen��which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

    German root: arc (bogen) of tension (spannung).

    OK, I’ll stop myself from adding any more words now.

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