Interesting and useful words
Discussion
RizzoTheRat said:
Timmy40 said:
Discombobulation is a lovely word. Meaning to make things confusing, thrown into a sentence it usually has the same effect as it's meaning.
However it's a shame that you can't then combobulate something that's been obfuscated. Such a concept would leave me feeling very gruntled.
At slight risk of disgruntling, we may have discombobulation with concomitant obfuscation?
Concomitant means accompanying, for those who would otherwise have had to look it up, as I did when first confronted with it in a Spike Milligan book written many years ago, and now await opportunities to use it.
I've always rather liked the sound of 'persiflage' (idle banter or chit chat). The end of the word rhymes with Raj and so is soft and french-like. One dictionary describes it as 'light raillery'. So that adds 'raillery' to the list!.
Stephen Fry is the go to author for all manner of good words. My favourite book of all time is his 'Paperweight'. A collection of his musings in magazines, newpapers and radio characters. Some of the articles are superb and a must read for any language buff.
Stephen Fry is the go to author for all manner of good words. My favourite book of all time is his 'Paperweight'. A collection of his musings in magazines, newpapers and radio characters. Some of the articles are superb and a must read for any language buff.
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
I've always liked bombastic - ' to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal padding and little substance'
I remember smiling to myself as a chap referred to someone else as a 'bombastic t
t', there must be a word for a term which undermines itself so to speak, but I can't bring it to mind.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff