What is the coolest word?

cor blimey,


still uttered here and there...

Lascivious

Coolest word: Eosinophils

I don't have a least favorite word, but I have a least favorite phrase. I don't remember exactly where I read this. It is so irritating that I remember it word for word, no matter how much I want to forget it:

"Destablization of established constructs of authorship afforded by the disruptive intrusion into the epistemological field of previously marginalized authorial modes and venues."

Even the THOUGHT of opening a dictionary to translate some of these words sets my teeth on edge! :-| Blech.

<<"Destablization of established constructs of authorship afforded by the disruptive intrusion into the epistemological field of previously marginalized authorial modes and venues." >>

Correct me if I'm wrong but does that mean plagiarism?

I hate the word "too", instead I use "aswell" and "also".

Too right it does, you didn't attribute the sentence to anybody. =)

It wouldn't have been translated from french would it?

French

I find some words beginning with "ob-" very comical: obfuscate, oblate, oblique, oblong, obnoxious, obsolete, obstacle, obstinate, obtuse. Whenever I hear them, I visualise a fellow with a funny round face trying to utter those words, but failing to do so. Do you think anything is wrong with me? :-)

>>"Destablization of established constructs of authorship afforded by the disruptive intrusion into the epistemological field of previously marginalized authorial modes and venues." <<

Joanne,

Is there such a thing as a George Orwell Prize for "the best newspeak sentence ever"? You could nominate this one as a likely winner. :-)

Damian said: >>Correct me if I'm wrong but does that mean plagiarism? <<

Something like that, but my guess is copyright violation. "Previously marginalised authorial modes and venues" could mean anything from pirate copies to unauthorised downloads.

'Equipaje'
- spanish for luggage. Ok, not 'cool' but it always made me laugh when I heard it in class....

<<Correct me if I'm wrong but does that mean plagiarism?>>

After reading your other messages in other threads that you posted at around the same time you posted this...you figured that out straight after you staggered home from a night of drinking??? =) Goddamn, what *have* I been doing with my life? LOL I need to get a desk organizer, or something...

The word 'whilst'.. love that word.. and the word 'Shire'. There's a lot: nature, creek, brook, ocean, stream, lake, tree, leaf, petal, wintercrest, evergreen... and also 'freak' comes to mind now...

the coolest word is the word "cool"!!!!

"Cool"?

Standing for an hour outside a supermarket in Edinburgh doing a flag day collection for a charity on a January morning. For cool substitute "frigid".

So that's my "cool" word today.