Loon
Posts: 379
12/20/2013
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The original thread, I believe, was in the surface forum.
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Scarlet Fenwick
Posts: 56
12/20/2013
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Antimacassar too. That's just ridiculous.
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Saharan
Posts: 247
12/21/2013
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Plenipotentiary. The way it rolls off the tongue is just marvellous. Although, I must agree that Mr. Pages' etymoillogical phraseology is most amusing at times.
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mayexist
Posts: 132
12/21/2013
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This passage is in my opinion one of the most Alexesque (Kennedian?), featuring an unsusual not-quite-simile and an adjective density of 13.6% :
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The path is dark. You might be safe, but who could walk between the stipes of these myceliad colossi without an instinctive shiver of mammalian unease? A gossamer-vaned spore the size of a dog's eye settles on your shoulder. It bursts as you brush it off. Filthy thing! But there, through the fungal haze. The lights of the cottage.
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Ewan C.
Posts: 675
12/25/2013
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"You can't tell whether it's your writing. You don't often write on beds."
Glorious. Merry Festivus, one and all, and thankyou to FailBetter!
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Nathanael S. Wells
Posts: 80
12/25/2013
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I like the names of the two most well-known paths between Surface and Neath: the Cumaean Canal and the Travertine Spiral.
Both were named for sibyls (liminal seers) of Greco-Roman myth: the Sibyl of Cumae and the Sibyl of Tibur (today known as Tivoli).
And they're such lovely names, too.
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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
12/27/2013
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'Dramatalogical ontologeography' has come to my attention.
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Alexander Feld
Posts: 348
12/28/2013
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theodor_gylden wrote:
'Dramatalogical ontologeography' has come to my attention.
Careful saying that, you don't want to sprain your tongue.
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Inky Petrel
Posts: 370
12/28/2013
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Mr Sacks had me googling "concrudescent" today. Sadly, it appears to be only partially related to a word in this world, "recrudescent" and I am uncertain exactly what the slight alteration does to the definition, so exactly what a concrudescent Mr Sacks might be remains a mystery to me.
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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
12/28/2013
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Alexander Feld wrote:
theodor_gylden wrote:
'Dramatalogical ontologeography' has come to my attention.
Careful saying that, you don't want to sprain your tongue.
Too late. Still, I hear F.F. Gebrandt has something for that.
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Ewan C.
Posts: 675
1/10/2014
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"The walls are beginning to blear." It *could* just be a typo, but I like it..
(from use of a bejewelled lens while dining in my pleasure-spire..)
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Martial Canterel
Posts: 40
1/11/2014
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It might not be quite as fancy as other words in London, but I like the sound of the Truthbreaker Turbine.
Edit: Also, Cryptospelunking
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Arlong
Posts: 27
11/2/2015
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If I had to choose, my favourite would definitely be 'Empyrean Redolence'.
Unless we're including Sunless Sea as well, in which case it would be 'Fulgent Impeller' instead.
Also learned a handful of vocabulary in relating to fabrics, thanks to the rag trade items category.
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KestrelGirl
Posts: 138
11/2/2015
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Nice necro, lol.
But I do love that the Professor of Antiquarian Esquivalience is an expert in the ancient art of avoiding one's duties.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
11/2/2015
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I hit somebody with my "knoblolly" once. Wondering what on earth that was, I googled it...and laughed when I saw the first hit was another Fallen Londoner wondering the exact same thing.
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Lemexis
Posts: 155
11/2/2015
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And now the next time someone google's it, they will laugh when they see that the first hit is someone who laughed when he saw that the first hit was someone else wondering the same thing.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
11/2/2015
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As far as Mr Pages is concerned, I am convinced he is a descendant of Mrs Malaprop.
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Mycroft Tennyson
Posts: 29
10/24/2018
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Rook Crofton wrote:
Cheers to both KatarinaNavane and InkyPetrel for starting these word threads.
My words: whatever that word that means the outermost layer of a mushroom is
The outermost layer of a mushroom cap is the pileipellis, that of a mushroom stalk is a stipitipellis.
http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Terms/pilei476.html
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ChangelingChilde
Posts: 231
3/26/2020
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Inky Petrel wrote:
Mr Sacks had me googling "concrudescent" today. Sadly, it appears to be only partially related to a word in this world, "recrudescent" and I am uncertain exactly what the slight alteration does to the definition, so exactly what a concrudescent Mr Sacks might be remains a mystery to me.
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Seven (isthenumber) years later, I can tell you that re- means again, con- means not, recrudescence means to have a resurgence and therefore concrudescent means not having an outbreak.
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