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Originally posted by lalatan View PostYeah, go for it, mdyak! If you start a new thread for it, I'll contribute.
I just played a board where the best/longest word seemed to be RADICALNESSES (19/13). Right in front of it was mini- so I tried MINIRADICALNESSES and was denied. A miniradical wouldn't be whole-hog radical, just a little bit.
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Yeah, go for it, mdyak! If you start a new thread for it, I'll contribute.
I just played a board where the best/longest word seemed to be RADICALNESSES (19/13). Right in front of it was mini- so I tried MINIRADICALNESSES and was denied. A miniradical wouldn't be whole-hog radical, just a little bit.Last edited by lalatan; 02-24-2022, 04:11 PM.
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Originally posted by lalatan View PostWhat could be more obscure than OBSCURENESSES (19/13)? SUBOBSCURENESSES (30/16), perhaps? Not so. SUBOBSCURE: Somewhat dark or obscure; (Botany and Zoology) somewhat dark and dingy in colour. (I guess it's shorter than typing SOMEWHATOBSCURENESSES )
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What could be more obscure than OBSCURENESSES (19/13)? SUBOBSCURENESSES (30/16), perhaps? Not so. SUBOBSCURE: Somewhat dark or obscure; (Botany and Zoology) somewhat dark and dingy in colour. (I guess it's shorter than typing SOMEWHATOBSCURENESSES )Last edited by lalatan; 03-02-2022, 02:12 PM.
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Originally posted by Naboka View Post
always interested in interesting words.
found apricate today. to bask in the sun.
Love to apricate.
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Cool word. I used to love to apricate as well but the nerve pain in my feet ramps up when they get hot. Can only do so now when I'm close by water to cool my feet off. I'm glad I can still walk the beach for a while.
Today I learned: noun: paraesthesia- an abnormal sensation, typically tingling or pricking (“pins and needles”), caused chiefly by pressure on or damage to peripheral nerves.
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Originally posted by lalatan View PostI never got it. I looked it up in Collin's and YAWL dictionaries. Not in either one so I doubt it was valid. SURGELESS was in YAWL but not Collin's.
I played another board with MALARIOLOGIES on it and set 2 records again. I came up w 3 other words you may find entertaining when you come across them.
found apricate today. to bask in the sun.
Love to apricate.
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I never got it. I looked it up in Collin's and YAWL dictionaries. Not in either one so I doubt it was valid. SURGELESS was in YAWL but not Collin's.
I played another board with MALARIOLOGIES on it and set 2 records again. I came up w 3 other words you may find entertaining when you come across them.
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Has anyone gotten "urgelessnesses?" My fumbly fingers got anxious so I couldn't get it in during that last seconds rush and was wondering if it would have counted.
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Originally posted by mdyak View PostNah, I'm no expert... just love cymatics. Check out YouTube videos - amazing and beautiful patterns created in sand and water and other substances just through the vibration of sound. Theories are that the frequencies of planets may also be creating patterns around them.
It's always so ironic in sci-fi shows that the spaceship goes rumbling and roaring by with rockets blazing when in reality it would be totally quiet in the vacuum of outer space.
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Originally posted by mdyak View Post
Nah, I'm no expert... just love cymatics. Check out YouTube videos - amazing and beautiful patterns created in sand and water and other substances just through the vibration of sound. Theories are that the frequencies of planets may also be creating patterns around them.
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I've done research with photoacoustics before, but cymatics is a new word to me. Photoacoustics is broader in application than I realized, and I missed out on some of the more beautiful/artistic applications. I would guess you could use a piezo actuator as a source for cymatics in many cases more easily than photoacoustics. Photoacoustics would be of more interest when you wanted to probe something remotely/noncontact or when what you wanted probe was dependent on some property of light such as wavelength.
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Originally posted by lalatan View PostWow, I never heard of photoacoustics or cymatics til today. You could be right; seems like you're more knowledgeable than me on the subject.
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