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[chess]

Some randomness from Talia:



Interesting words from the Psion dictionary:
Lollapalooza.
Logorrhoea - presumably verbal diorrhoea.
Loyola, Luanda, Lymphoma.Lamella, Lamina, Latifundia.
Leukaemia.
Lhasa.
Liana - a jungle creeper, living in the canopy between the trees, never touching ground - or only vaguly associated with it.
Lufthansa - a beautiful name for an airline.
Lusaka, Lemma, Loa.
Mangel-wurzel.
Marmoreal, Maturational, Kinshasa.
Kasha, Neurasthenia, Oxymora.
Pachysandra, Pamplona, Panatela.
Papilla, Parenchyma, Paronomasia.
Pyorrhoea, Purina, Proscenia.
Propylaea, Prolegomena, Pretoria.
Praia, Ponderosam, Phylloxera.
Philodendra, Petrofina, Quokka.
Retsina, Sacraria, Salamanca, Samna, Sapodilla, Susquehanna...
Tuatara. Tularaemia. Trichina. Tirana. Tegucigalpa. Uraemia.
Yenta.
Zeugma.
And all these end in 'a'. (or l, or i, but just a few.)
Falafel... Folderol...
dashiki, kabuki, kaki, saluki, sukiyaki, teriyaki.
caravanserai. I'm sure I've seen this one before...
Anyway, that's quite enough.

((Anyone telling me what some of these mean would be welcomed :-) ))

Comments

part duex

[firinel.livejournal.com]

paronomasia - (this one Marnanel should know ;) making puns, word play

pyorrhoea - oozy pus

proscenia - the area of a modern theater that is located between the curtain and the orchestra

propylaea - the foyer of a temple

prolegomena - a critique of sorts, the intial remarks

ponderosam - mm, there's 'ponderosa' which is type of pine in north america, especially in the west. could that be it?

phylloxera - a kind of aphid that normally attacks grape crops

philodendra - rather common american houseplant which climbs, or has trendils. I'll take a picture of mine for you.

quokka - a kind of wallabe

retsina - a greek wine, normally white that's flavoured with pine

sacraria - the sanctuary or sacristy of a church

sapodilla - naseberry tree! yummy fruit, and the tree it grows in, that's in Maxico and central america

tularaemia - a disease normally carried by rodents that can be passed to people by handeling infected animals

trichina - kind of like ringworm, they infest livestock and worm their way into the muscles

Tirana - capital of Albania

uraemia - a condition where your kidneys retain wastes normally excreted in urin, and it backs up into the bloodstream

yenta - *giggle* old jewish insult, meaning someone who is gossipy and likes to get in other ppl's business (usually only used for women)

zeugma - (another one Marnanel should know this one :) a word construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective, is applied to two or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or to both in different ways, as in He stole my heart, and my paycheque.

folderol - silliness

kaki - a japanese persimmon, used to refer to both the tree, and its fruit

saluki - a breed of dog bred in Egypt and Arabia known for having a long silky coat

caravanserai - a large inn or hostel (maybe you heard of this because of it being used for church youth group hostels?)

Re: part duex

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I love zeugmas. Don't always remember the word for them, but I know it in theory. Paronomasia is a new word for me, though. Thank you.

Re: part duex

[naath.livejournal.com]

caravanseri - a place where a caravan would stop. In this sense a caravan is a group of merchants traveling on horse/camel back. It is a large inn type place, Arabian in origin

Mangle Wurzels are presumably a type of crop. They were mentioned in Animal Farm (the musical), I seem to remember.-- we did it at school, I wsa moving scenary.

Thanks!

[chess]

Whee, lots of pretty words!

It seems that quite a lot of these pretty words are used for 'nasty' icky medical things tho... it almost seems a waste.

Also, they all seem pretty obscure things to put in the Psion dictionary, which claims to be a compact set of words you may have to add technical terms to... I wonder who they got / what source they used to compile it?