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Lovely Words

Submitted by Lord-Svenstikov on Sun, 02/03/2008 at 1:36pm.

Now I have been a member of chess.com for a long while and I still have not written a blog. I feel it is my duty to add something to this wonderful website however pointless it may be, so here goes.

I am the sort of person who often takes a fancy to a word, so at the start of the academic year I started a list of these words in a notebook. I whip it out if somebody says an exceptional word and I add it.

You would be supprised how many people have favourite words of their own.

Anywho, lets me construct a list for you:

  • Frustrum
  • Asymptote
  • Ambulance
  • Ambiance
  • Bromide
  • Schism
  • Pudding
  • Abysmal
  • Bafflingly
  • Yerp
  • Paradox
  • Parallax
  • Parrallel
  • Smoggy
  • Kerfuffle
  • Googleplexian
  • Pernickety
  • Quantised
  • Disproportionation
  • Nomenclature
  • Bliss
  • Neophyte

 My list of "horrid words" is far shorter. Only four words long at the moment.

  • Nicely
  • Orang-utan
  • Belly
  • Gas

 Please bear in mind that I (dis)like the sounds of these words. There presence on the list has little to do with their definitions; however I'm sure the meanings probably swayed me. For instance I do hate monkeys and apes, and I like maths.


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Comments:

by Puppaz - 2 months ago
UK United Kingdom
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 166

Bumblebee.

That is all.


by scandinaviandefense - 4 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459

Correct Shruikon, Noob is not Newbie.


by Shruikon - 4 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216

Use dictionary.com. It is not on there.

 

Look, you are wrong this time. Noob does not mean newbie. End of story. 


by Lord-Svenstikov - 4 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 570

Now if google used dictionary definations how can it possibly not be in the dictionary.

"Your case is wrong. 'Nuff said." Oh yes, that is a brilliant arguement which has totally convinced me.


by Shruikon - 4 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216

Your case is wrong. 'Nuff said.

Even Wikipedia has the right definition.

You can not use a dictionary definition (which is what Google did) to state the meaning of the word since it isn't in the dictionary. 


by Lord-Svenstikov - 4 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 570

You are not happy with that evidence in my case for some reason? Surely the fact that you play lots of video games is an ad hoc fallacy in terms of knowing the true meaning of the word.

Many words have confused meanings, just because a word is believed to mean something by the masses it does not necassarily make it true. Want examples?

Furthermore, I would believe that the online dictionaries that supply google with the definitions would be, for the most part, accurate. There is more than one definition on there that supports my case.


by Shruikon - 4 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216

You're trying to use a google definition to prove me, a person who loves playing video games, the place where the term originated, wrong?

 

Oh Alaric, stop being such a noob. (xD) 


by Lord-Svenstikov - 4 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 570
by scandinaviandefense - 4 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459
And Ploo doesn't matter.
by scandinaviandefense - 4 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459
Correct Shruikon, Alaric is mistaken. Noob is not short for Newbie.
by Shruikon - 4 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216

Agreed again with Cloudjubei xD

 

Noob isn't short for newbie. Alaric doesn't know his stuff xD 


by cloudjubei - 4 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 15

Alaric, noob isn't short for newbie, newb is :P Noob = Alaric, but Noob =/= Neophyte

^^ 


by Lord-Svenstikov - 4 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 570

Noob is short for newbie.

Newbie = beginner

Beginner = Neophyte

:. Noob = Neophyte


by scandinaviandefense - 5 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459
So, does anyone think that "Ploo"  is similar to Multiplex Ligation-dependant Probe Amplification? How about Noble Dutch Familes or South African Musicians?
by Shruikon - 5 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216

Noob =/= Neophyte.


by scandinaviandefense - 5 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to Wikipedia and looked up "Ploo". It had no matches, but suggested the following things to me as 100.0% like Ploo.

National Assembly of the Bavitan Republic

Sea Wing disaster

Multiplex Ligation-dependant Probe Amplification

List of South African musicians

Plew, Missouri

List of Noble Dutch Families

So there you go, Lord. There is the scoop on Ploo.


by scandinaviandefense - 5 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459
I am sorry, but I really don't know the defenition of Ploo, and I feel that I need to know it too! I need to know it so much, that I am off to Wikipedia.
by Lord-Svenstikov - 5 months ago
Worcester United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 570

:( I am nowhere near being a Neophyte Adam. :P

Ok, now I am intrigued chesslover. This Ploo sounds amazing, I have a feeling that I need to know the definition of Ploo. I don't like secrets being held from me, how would you like it if I did a simular thing to you? For instance: I am holding an object right now, but I'm not going to tell you what it is!


by Shruikon - 5 months ago
Worcester, England United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 216
Agreed with Cloudjubei. Stop being such a noob Alaric! xD
by scandinaviandefense - 5 months ago
Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 459

webster.com says you must pay to join a special group, and then you may learn the defenition of Ploo. That makes the word even better! Secret defenition!


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