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| Author: | Captain Nemo Marlene [ August 29th, 2011, 4:03 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are enclosed | 
| Ahoy everyone! At this point, you may be wondering: "What on earth does that title mean?!?!" Chances are you also looked up those words on google and could not discover what they meant. There is a reason for this: they no longer exist in the dictionary. These have been real words, but because their use became non-existent, they were taken out of the dictionary. The subject means this: Where figurative expressions, the second time places are burned down, and grave speeches are enclosed. Where did I find these words, you may ask? Right here: http://savethewords.org/ This website has tons of words that have been taken out of the dictionary. You can adopt a word and use it as often as you can to help bring it back into the dictionary. In this thread, I have two challenges for you: 1. Adopt a word (officially on the website, or unofficially here). Let us know what word you've adopted! If you choose to adopt a word, just here, or on the other website as well, I'd like to add a challenge to it: use that word at least once in one of your stories. 2. Choose a word on the website and write a short story from it or that uses it. Choosing a word and writing a story with it is not adopting a word.  If you decide to write the story, please post it here for the rest of us to read.  I hope you enjoy these challenges! | |
| Author: | Riniel Jasmina [ August 29th, 2011, 4:04 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| This looks exciting. I'll see if I can do it zenzizenzizenzic. | |
| Author: | KathrineROID [ August 29th, 2011, 4:52 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| I officially adopted "starrify." Means "to decorate with stars." However, "cattify" does not mean "to decorate with cats." Bummer. O.O What does zenzineczinzen- oh, forget it. What does it mean? | |
| Author: | Riniel Jasmina [ August 30th, 2011, 11:45 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| Anything to the eighth power. | |
| Author: | KathrineROID [ August 30th, 2011, 12:02 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| But it only has six z's. . .  XD | |
| Author: | Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ August 31st, 2011, 5:53 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| Ooh! I call pigritude, which means "laziness"  I also call veteratorian, or "subtle"  And I like succisive, meaning "of spare or extra time"  *will be frequently visiting this site  * Why do I feel like I'm playing balderdash?   | |
| Author: | Elly [ August 31st, 2011, 12:55 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| I suppose I unofficially adopted "tussicate", or "to cough".   | |
| Author: | Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ September 1st, 2011, 7:28 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| What? That's not a word anymore? Oh the horror! All these years... *sob* (It's used in Portuguese, hence my over-melodramatic reaction  ) eru | |
| Author: | KathrineROID [ September 1st, 2011, 8:06 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| I made a blog post about these endangered words. See: http://kathrineroid.wordpress.com/2011/ ... e-words-2/ | |
| Author: | Captain Nemo Marlene [ September 5th, 2011, 8:36 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| I am unofficially adopting the word squiriferous: having the characters or qualities of a gentleman. | |
| Author: | Captain Nemo Marlene [ October 28th, 2011, 1:05 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| How is this going, you guys? Have you used your endangered words in your stories yet? I have!   | |
| Author: | Lady Elanor [ October 29th, 2011, 7:20 am ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| This is a really cool idea! I'm going to have to look some long, forgotten words up.   | |
| Author: | Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ October 30th, 2011, 6:34 pm ] | 
| Post subject: | Re: Where Icasms, Recinerations, and Graviloquences are encl | 
| I haven't used them in my stories, but I have managed to graft some of them into my vocabulary  Particularly 'porphyrophobic'  eru | |
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