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Valse has added 732 words, 17 lists, 133 comments, and 1 tag.
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on the list gma! gma!, Valse said:
"No, I think you've resuscitated it. =)" more...
on scrogneugneu, Valse said:
"A French interjection I just discovered. Can't be sure I'm pronouncing it right, but..." more...
on hyperpolyglot, Valse said:
"Hmm, I know of Daniel Tammet and <a..." more...
on effulgent, Valse said:
"There's a great nod to that in the series finale of Angel, Spike recites it at a poetry slam." more...
on the list the art/science of economics, Valse said:
"I always hear talk of liquidity, the ebb and flow of money--especially lately, with the stock market taking a dive. Great descriptive word." more...
on the list A Bazillion Imaginary Numbers, Valse said:
"Wonderful list. I'm not sure why, but I like the expression "gobs of money." Perhaps it's the imagery, like with "wads" or "scads," which are are..." more...
on draughtsman, Valse said:
"A draughtsman or draftsman (the former more often in the UK, the latter more often in the US, and pronounced the same) is a person skilled in..." more...
on circumflex, Valse said:
"When someone flexes their arms, arcing downward in the shape of a circle?

I know, corny. Thought of this earlier and couldn't resist.." more...
on the list Biblio-Words, Valse said:
"You forgot bibliotherapy. =]" more...
on the list UMP, Valse said:
"Funny, seeing the title up on the recent word lists, my thoughts went right to the French party Union for a Presidential..." more...
on agglutination, Valse said:
"Yeah, I think even though German isn't considered an agglutinative language like Finnish or Turkish, the way it forms nouns is agglutinative. It just..." more...
on the list Words that end in -dom, Valse said:
"geekdom! Fitting, yes." more...
on algorithm march, Valse said:
"Japan seems to exude this contagious, fun weirdness..." more...
on the list The Great Fiction, Valse said:
"Although you're apparently adding more over time, I'll suggest a couple favorites that are roughly synonymous with junta: coup d'état and..." more...
on the list wot's all this, then?, Valse said:
"For American news junkies (news junkies from America, that is) like myself, the BBC news site is great when you..." more...
on the list compounds, Valse said:
"Today, I heard lifeblood and brainchild used on NPR--they might have even been used in the same sentence. Anyway, I think they both sound like..." more...
on bracketeering, Valse said:
"Perhaps a UD entry is in order, u ;)" more...
on the list "be-" all that you can be, Valse said:
"It could. But I just find them all so humorously quaint." more...
on hobby horse, Valse said:
"Seeing bracketerred makes me think of bracketeering, and now I wonder what that might mean and if someone could be indicted for it." more...
on the list Stuffie: I'm taken, Valse said:
"for granted, a right at the next street" more...
on the list Valse's Words, Valse said:
"Glad to hear it." more...
on the list Valse's Words, Valse said:
"Please, feel free. =) I stole bedecked (edit: among others) from you (or rather, saw it on the front page after you added it) for my "be-" list." more...
on freegan, Valse said:
"NYT article, June 21, 2007:

"...the term derives from..." more...
on the list Stuffie: Gimmie, Valse said:
"it up, one's all?" more...
on sycophant, Valse said:
"A little etymological treat, in my opinion: "one who shows the fig." more...
on the list Leftovers, Valse said:
"Thanks, reesetee. All good suggestions, palooka, I'll definitely add them all. By the by, reading about <a..." more...
on the list anacronyms, Valse said:
"I just learned that flak is flieger abwehr kanone." more...
on the list The Brain, Valse said:
"I agree with you heartily about hemispherectomy. Glad to see you chose the verbal form lobotomize, too; it sounds aptly creepy." more...
on the list Sign of the Times, Valse said:
"Speaking of golden..." more...
on the list The Brain, Valse said:
"Definitely a new favorite. =)

You'd be remiss to leave out lobotomy, methinks. That might just be personal preference. In a similar vein, House,..." more...
on rindfleischetikettierungsüb..., Valse said:
"Don't you love agglutination?" more...
on John's profile, Valse said:
"Hey, John, just wanted to send a quick thanks for making the site--I've been on here for a few months now but thought it futile to post on here..." more...
on ghoti, Valse said:
"Robin: "Ghoti" is "fish"?
Batman: See here. English phonetics. GH becomes F, as in "tough" or "laugh". O becomes I as in "women"...." more...
on the list neat!, Valse said:
"Decidedly neat. ;) golly's the only specific word I can think of, but on a somewhat related note, I stumbled across this funny quote when..." more...
on parthenogenesis, Valse said:
"Apparently sharks can do this." more...
on the list gma! gma!, Valse said:
"Ah! Should have remembered that one, for my Catholic mom and the wonderful Kevin Smith movie (which she surprisingly liked).

Mm, jubjub bird's a..." more...
on neat, Valse said:
"Heh...I wonder if someone's made a list for funnily innocuous words from the 50's like this one?" more...
on smegma, Valse said:
"This word makes an appearance in a lot of "yech" lists. Not surprising, really; I advise against looking at the Wikipedia article while eating." more...
on altogether, Valse said:
"Synonym: nude, as in the expression "in the altogether" more...
on dromedary, Valse said:
"That is incredibly helpful." more...
on the list Transtemporal AAA, Valse said:
"Nice title. Would you accept the soviet republic or ussr? dacia for present-day romania?" more...
on sarahtonin's profile, Valse said:
"Your name is great =]" more...
on gapsiller, Valse said:
"gaspiller?" more...
on bowlderize, Valse said:
"should be bowdlerize" more...
on twitterpated, Valse said:
"A search on TFD yielded an ad for Thumper (Bambi's bunny friend) Massagers...really strange fusion there of things that should not fuse in terms of..." more...
on neutralize, Valse said:
"A cleverly deceptive euphemism for "kill." more...
on medical materialism, Valse said:
"Mainly added this obscure term so as to add the following interesting quote from the psychologist of religion W. James:

"Medical materialism..." more...
on the list American Regional Nicknames, Valse said:
"birminghamster is great (just spotted it on the front page and had to comment)" more...
on the list A few of my favorite things, Valse said:
"Thanks for the list love, reesetee and spicolli. It's often the curiosities and oldies that draw me into this business of word-collecting. If there..." more...
on the list Love is a very strange thing, Valse said:
"I'll assume technophilia isn't actually the love of that repetitive musical genre, as I couldn't help but think at first glance. glossophile and..." more...
on bunbury, Valse said:
"Thanks for the interesting article, trivet." more...
on purplification, Valse said:
"From Time, Jan. 19, 2007:
"Indeed, there are those who believe that the gradual purplification of the West may have dramatic national..." more...
on je ne sais quois, Valse said:
"This is supposed to be je ne sais quoi, if I may be so pedantic" more...
on the list doghouse, Valse said:
"Here's one: anathematize" more...
on the list picaresque, Valse said:
"Nice list. One of my personal favorites: rapscallion" more...
on the list I love not man the less, but Nature more, Valse said:
"troglodyte =] Here's a list I might find very useful." more...
on the list I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel, Valse said:
"saturnine, down-in-the-dumps" more...
on daguerreotype, Valse said:
"From the Wikipedia article on memento mori:
After the invention of photography, many people had photographs taken of recently dead family members;..." more...
on the list Français, Valse said:
"Something to remember for any French forum: àma = à mon avis" more...
on abracadabrant, Valse said:
"I've yet to see this French word in English. It means "ludicrous" or "far-fetched."

See the even sillier abracadabrantesque" more...
on dna, Valse said:
"deoxyribonucleic acid" more...
on the list wordage, Valse said:
"vintage, lineage, rampage. I have to suggest, though I wouldn't blame you for not accepting it: pwnage" more...
on the list wordage, Valse said:
"package, footage, stockage, underage, overage, coverage...oo, and pillage" more...
on ownlife, Valse said:
"I often commit the ungood crime of ownlifing" more...
on the list Jumbo Shrimp, Valse said:
"I was wondering about the word ones used in the case of "I want those ones over there." Seems almost like an oxymoron within itself taken out of..." more...
on the list Fun with Apocopes, Valse said:
"Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification =]" more...
on the list Fun with Apocopes, Valse said:
"And rep" more...
on the list Odd Words, Valse said:
"Might I suggest nepenthe, a word I learned on this very site?" more...
on the list oh-eee-oh-eee-oh, Valse said:
"Hm, I'm craving coelacanth for supper." more...
on the list Jumbo Shrimp, Valse said:
"Really fun list. People have done terribly well in coming up with possibilities." more...
on the list Fun with Apocopes, Valse said:
"prep as in prep course? dem for democrat, chem, phenom (which sounds very odd to me). noob or newb?

Isn't this what they call..." more...
on the list Verbed!, Valse said:
"My English professor used the verb other a few times today--capitalized actually. It's more or less supposed to mean "to treat a group of people,..." more...
on hippopotomonstrosesquippedal..., Valse said:
"I so long ago misspelt this hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia on my list and thought it was inconceivable no one else had added it." more...
on the list Klaatu Barada N... Necktie... Nickel . . . . Klaatu Barada Nahagablaga!, Valse said:
"I remember in the cartoon Doug, Doug would say "Veni, vidi, vici!" whilst doing some magic trick or another. Which sounded enough like an..." more...
on the list Unexpected Pronunciation, Now! with Public Access!, Valse said:
"I guess I thought of paraphernalia because people often pronounce it pehr-uh-fuh-neel-yuh. Or maybe that's just how my misguided ear has heard it..." more...
on the list Hogwash!, Valse said:
"tall tale? rubbish or a load of rubbish?" more...
on ephemeroptera, Valse said:
"According to a play my high school put on a few years ago in which two mayflies have a decidedly brief tryst (it's a bit hazy now), it's about 24..." more...
on ephemeroptera, Valse said:
"What a beautifully expressive word for a mayfly." more...
on the list Bad Mood, Valse said:
"Anyone else notice the abundance of words for a bad mood, compared to those for a good one? Perhaps it's more noteworthy when someone is..." more...
on the list Dream a little dream of me, Valse said:
"Oo, thank you! somniloquy's an especially good one that slipped my mind." more...
on the list Cafeteria Catholic, Valse said:
"Heh, sacrilege? anathema and ex cathedra for "the" church.." more...
on the list Dream a little dream of me, Valse said:
"Not entirely sure about adding an acronym like rem, but people often say "rehm-sleep"...so I think it's fair game." more...
on the list Adjectives that used to be people, Valse said:
"Manichaean" more...
on the list -og- words, Valse said:
"Thanks :) I was searching through my main page for some applicable words and found...well, one. Thinking of changing it to -og words, but that might..." more...
on the list Unexpected Pronunciation, Now! with Public Access!, Valse said:
"One of my favorite words as spelling goes: paraphernalia. And perhaps circuit?" more...
on the list End in -ot, Valse said:
"escargot :)" more...
on the list eponymous fabrics or articles of clothing, Valse said:
"how about bloomers?" more...
on transmogrify, Valse said:
"Heh, probably Buffy for me. Or was that transmutation?" more...
on the list That Smarts, Valse said:
"a posteriori, a fortiori, ex libris, de facto. Mm, Latin's fun." more...
on the list -gn words, Valse said:
"hehe. All these relatively simple words eluded me." more...
on the list -gn words, Valse said:
"Thanks, Abraxas. Thought of sovereign just now, too." more...
on the list adjectives ending in -id, Valse said:
"Here's one to redeem my blunder: splendid." more...
on the list adjectives ending in -id, Valse said:
"Don't forget caryatid..." more...
on the list Words that are also excellent band names, if the rules below are correctly applied, Valse said:
"Though I'm pretty unfamiliar with the original band, my favorite's Masonic Youth. Also, The Frowned Upon." more...
on enneagram, Valse said:
"Very interesting. I'd only ever known about the enneagram in the context of personality theory." more...
on entomology, Valse said:
"I often hear people mispronounce the word etymology by saying this word instead, which makes me giggle. Even funnier is entomologist in place of..." more...
on cerulean, Valse said:
"Suh-roo-lee-uhn. Beautiful word, likewise with the color it describes." more...
on mellifluous, Valse said:
"Wonderful etymology: "flowing with honey." The word can be used in that literal sense, but the "metaphorical" sense (e.g. to describe someone's voice..." more...
on the list English doesn't have a word for it, Valse said:
"Apparently the English word for schadenfreude is epicaricacy...if you want to get technical. There's a book out there whose name I can't quite..." more...
on kaputt, Valse said:
"See kaput" more...
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