Favourite words found

[DrPlacebo]

I'm quite proud of having found MAXIXE for a new highest-scoring word record on a board. (And slightly surprised that it counted.) How often do you find a word with two Xs in it?

[2cute]

I like to think I'm good with my hands. I've had no complaints so far... (4X4)

Best word: DEXTEROUSNESSES (30 pts.) New record!
Longest word: DEXTEROUSNESSES (15 letters) New record!

Wow! Great find.

[jbud1980]

I like to think I'm good with my hands. I've had no complaints so far... (4X4)

Best word: DEXTEROUSNESSES (30 pts.) New record!
Longest word: DEXTEROUSNESSES (15 letters) New record!

[Callielou]

Yesterday I found TOADHEAD then a few games later found RUBBERNECKERS

I gotta me get a new circle of friends

[dannyb]

You got to love those "Frankenwords"

[tufts]

SULFOGLYCOLIPIDS

This one was really fun to piece together!

[Boulevardiere]

This is really interesting! I have trouble thinking of it as a noun though, my brain just malfunctions when I try.

Yep. The "fly" the gene is from presents a similar problem.

[crazykate]

SEVENLESS.

This is actually a noun, not an adjective -- it's a fruit fly gene! It's so named because a mutation in the gene causes the eyes to lack a photoreceptor called R7.

This is really interesting! I have trouble thinking of it as a noun though, my brain just malfunctions when I try.

[DrPlacebo]

SEVENLESS.

This is actually a noun, not an adjective -- it's a fruit fly gene! It's so named because a mutation in the gene causes the eyes to lack a photoreceptor called R7.

[bwt1213]

Reading OED cover to cover? !!!

Wow!

Just wow!

Recently got rid of mine, along with the multi-volume Century Dictionary and Cylopedia. They were taking up a lot of space--and I hadn't touched either for a very long time. Not that I wanted to part with them, but the wife has been watching Swedish Death Cleaning, so...

Really did love the leather-bound spines of the Century. The sacrifises of marriage.

Immediately after reading your post, ran across orgone on a board and couldn't help thinking of your comments. Would I be correct in assuming you weren't buying Reich's premise?

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You'd be correct. I didn't buy the "orgone energy" idea for a second. It was hard to hear his ideas in general without thinking he was doing some really obscure comedy skit.

[Stellar6666]

For no apparent reason, i found out today that dorb is a word.

[lapiz9lazuli]

macheavelians

[Naboka]

I took a while to think about what you'd written. I never got far enough into The Hobbit to encounter any of the subjects you mentioned, and my experience was from 1969 -- so, well over 50 years ago. About all I can remember now is the flavor of the work, at least the first twenty pages or so of it. I think my primary objection then was the pure fantasy nature of it; I wanted something that extrapolated from reality or could be justified in some way scientifically. So, pure fantasy just wasn't what I was looking for. The second part of my objection was my knowledge of Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and similar authors. I was wary of anything that smelled like religion or faith or a "quest" based on faith. Actually, I don't think I found that in those few pages I read. But I was sure that's where it was going to go, and I wasn't going there. Perhaps that was unfair of me and a prejudgment I shouldn't have made. I will note that I have read some works for which I had no idea where the author was going and found myself headed right down that "faith" path. Once I saw that happening, I quit. Dead stop. There is something in me that utterly rejects the idea that there are things we just have to accept on faith, and just believe to be true. I can't do that, and more than that I don't WANT to do that. I am willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy all manner of fanciful stories I know can't possibly be true, and I've even written some myself. But to have a story based on the idea that there is something you cannot know but just have to believe in -- that's a bridge too far for me. But as far as the dictionary is concerned, I regularly read dictionaries and took pleasure in doing so. I once read the whole Oxford Unabridged dictionary, in the library. You couldn't check the dictionary out, just use it. But some days I could read as many as twenty pages, and I would remember where I was so I could go back the next day and continue. I read that dictionary for more than ten years and I felt actual regret when I came to the last page. I just wish I could remember more of it.

Reading OED cover to cover? !!!

Wow!

Just wow!

Recently got rid of mine, along with the multi-volume Century Dictionary and Cylopedia. They were taking up a lot of space--and I hadn't touched either for a very long time. Not that I wanted to part with them, but the wife has been watching Swedish Death Cleaning, so...

Really did love the leather-bound spines of the Century. The sacrifises of marriage.

Immediately after reading your post, ran across orgone on a board and couldn't help thinking of your comments. Would I be correct in assuming you weren't buying Reich's premise?

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[bwt1213]

bwt1213 I just finished "The Science of Middle Earth" by Henry Gee. Chapters on string theory, human evolution, eyesight, the possibility of there being 6-limbed reptiles (dragons with 4 legs and wings, mithril, and several others. A lot of insights into Tolkien: his childhood and adolescence, war-time service, fascination with languages, etc. His first job out of the Army was working on the Oxford English Dictionary, so perhaps there was something buried deep in your psyche that caused you to reject the fantasy world created by one of its authors!

I took a while to think about what you'd written. I never got far enough into The Hobbit to encounter any of the subjects you mentioned, and my experience was from 1969 -- so, well over 50 years ago. About all I can remember now is the flavor of the work, at least the first twenty pages or so of it. I think my primary objection then was the pure fantasy nature of it; I wanted something that extrapolated from reality or could be justified in some way scientifically. So, pure fantasy just wasn't what I was looking for. The second part of my objection was my knowledge of Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and similar authors. I was wary of anything that smelled like religion or faith or a "quest" based on faith. Actually, I don't think I found that in those few pages I read. But I was sure that's where it was going to go, and I wasn't going there. Perhaps that was unfair of me and a prejudgment I shouldn't have made. I will note that I have read some works for which I had no idea where the author was going and found myself headed right down that "faith" path. Once I saw that happening, I quit. Dead stop. There is something in me that utterly rejects the idea that there are things we just have to accept on faith, and just believe to be true. I can't do that, and more than that I don't WANT to do that. I am willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy all manner of fanciful stories I know can't possibly be true, and I've even written some myself. But to have a story based on the idea that there is something you cannot know but just have to believe in -- that's a bridge too far for me. But as far as the dictionary is concerned, I regularly read dictionaries and took pleasure in doing so. I once read the whole Oxford Unabridged dictionary, in the library. You couldn't check the dictionary out, just use it. But some days I could read as many as twenty pages, and I would remember where I was so I could go back the next day and continue. I read that dictionary for more than ten years and I felt actual regret when I came to the last page. I just wish I could remember more of it.

[JedMedGrey]

bwt1213 I just finished "The Science of Middle Earth" by Henry Gee. Chapters on string theory, human evolution, eyesight, the possibility of there being 6-limbed reptiles (dragons with 4 legs and wings, mithril, and several others. A lot of insights into Tolkien: his childhood and adolescence, war-time service, fascination with languages, etc. His first job out of the Army was working on the Oxford English Dictionary, so perhaps there was something buried deep in your psyche that caused you to reject the fantasy world created by one of its authors!