Favorite Words/Stupid Post

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CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:04 PM

Annabel-myri is it?
If so, a singular and beautiful name.
If not,
well... I'm a visual person, not a word person (he said defensively)

Chrisisall

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:52 PM

Not to be pedantic or anything, but I think this is interesting so I’m going to explain how the rather perplexing definition of sanguine emerged.

The term sanguine comes from the Latin word sanguineous, which means ‘bloody.’

In Late Medieval Europe, a philosophy emerged that sought to describe a person’s disposition as a mixture of four internal fluids: blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy. Each fluid was thought to cause a certain personality characteristic, and blood was thought to be a vehicle for cheerfulness. So a person who was very cheerful, hopeful or brave was thought to have an abundance of blood and was therefore referred to as “bloody.” But since this was a scholarly philosophy, they preferred to refer to these terms in Latin. As such certain Latin terms have made it into English as a result of this philosophy. Sanguine is only one of them. Here are a few more that you might be surprised to see:

Temperament. Guess what Latin word this comes from. “Mixture.” (temperare : “to mix”)

Humor: In Latin, Humorus means “fluid” or “moisture.”

This philosophy of the temperaments of humor is quite similar to Chinese and Indian philosophies which are sometimes referred to as “Eastern Medicine.” There is a whole philosophy of “Western Medicine,” as it were, that has, to a large extent, vanished and left us with these odd definitions.

CALLMEATH

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:57 PM

I'm guessing Emily. Don't know 'bout your last name, though. Branan? Barnan? Branna? Hey, your name could be Breanna! I always liked that one.

MALICIOUS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
...i'm just kinda impressed that i've managed almost as much thread space as Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

I've been TRYING to be a good non-thread-hijacking girl! Typical. No props for the Mal-Meister.

Mal-licious

I think I will add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

AX

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:07 AM

Great thread. I love words.

Palimpsest: Describes a piece of paper that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:28 AM

antidisestablishmentarinism

but did I spell it correctly...?

Chrisisall

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:08 AM

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleu
cylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcyste
inylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglu
taminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminyl
valyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylg
lycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolyl
leucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparagi
nylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreony
lthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalan
ylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparagi
nylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthre
onylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylala
nylserine

Actual chemical name of a type of virus. Thought to be the longest word to have every appeared in print.

MONTANAGIRL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:24 AM

Wow, and I thought German was bad about compounding words.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:47 AM

Given the size of some proteins and the way in which organic chemical names are derived, in theory one could have chemical names with literally millions of letters. At some point the rigid specificity of science is pitted against the astronomical complexity of nature, and one of them is going to lose.

MANWITHPEZ

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:44 PM

I think some guy named Alan made that word up just to sneak his name in as many times as possible.

I remember reading this word, or something like it in a book...the word itself took up like 25 pages...

Nice compact words are good too...like

Boo!

I like that one. I like to stand in the doorway to say it.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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