utterly useless words

[jeepiegirl]

I just saw this- congrats on finding it Lalatan but OMG really- who thinks up these twilight zone words? SUPERACUTENESSES

[JedMedGrey]

Reminds me of a good friend who could say almost nothing at the dinner table as her sister would find fault with it. No support from the parents, either.

[2cute]

Actually I practiced unutterableness all the time when I spent time with my relatives. No subject was safe.

[bwt1213]

What did that lyric mean? There's a whole thing for misheard lyrics -- you can look it up online. I have two that got me, and one of them still does. The Rascals had a song: "Groovin' ". I heard one lyric as "You and me and Leslie" and always wondered if it was a threesome or if their child was named Leslie. Turns out it was "You and me, endlessly". The other one was by Johnny Rivers: "Secret Agent Man". I misheard that as "Secret Asian Man". But that first one is the one that still gets me. I still hear "Leslie". And I think they must have had a child named Leslie. I just can't make myself hear "endlessly".

[Naboka]

Speaking of which, found this this morning:
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I've been finding such words for years in 5x5 and, yes, they are very entertaining at times. Many is the time I lol'ed after a word was accepted. I had a quick look in my words found folder just now. A few of my faves:
PROBABILISTICALLY, only worth 20 pts. I think the rarity should be more than "wide."
URANOGRAPHIST
COMMONSENSIBLE
OVERFLUENTNESSES I was unaware this could be a problem.

Uranographist I can see, as uranography isn't that rare.

Overfluentnesses? Even overfluent. Huh?

Tried to look it up. Nothing.

If you can't find a definition for the base... hmm.

Overflowing? Maybe.

Can't imagine it having anything to do with fluency. Seems the goal is to gain that effortless flow necessary in public speaking, sports, reading, art, singing, factory production--just about anything. Including Wordtwist.

Though people can be labeled oversophisticated--which is more a slam on pretense than sophisticaiton, as part of sophistication is knowing how to read an audience. In which case, being oversophisticated becomes an oxymoron because the individual lacks knowledge/understanding rather than having it in excess.

Even farmers are constantly trying to increase their sophistication relative to farming.

Still...

entertaining...

and makes you think.

Sometimes, the mystery is what sticks us. Just what in the world did that lyric mean?

The endless search for meaning.

"Meaning" addicts.

[lalatan]

Speaking of which, found this this morning:
28 PTS UNUTTERABLENESS.jpg
I've been finding such words for years in 5x5 and, yes, they are very entertaining at times. Many is the time I lol'ed after a word was accepted. I had a quick look in my words found folder just now. A few of my faves:
PROBABILISTICALLY, only worth 20 pts. I think the rarity should be more than "wide."
URANOGRAPHIST
COMMONSENSIBLE
OVERFLUENTNESSES I was unaware this could be a problem.

[Naboka]

Every game features a parade of useless words, out-of-tune bands and well-intended-but-poorly-rendered floats.

We sit in our chairs, watching all this pass by. Inured to the remarkable become unremarkable. Words that mean nothing to anyone near us, so common.

Then one appears.

We sit up. Noticing.

The naked mayor doing a one-fingered handstand atop the tuba player.

Holy ...!!!

Everyone becomes excited, trying to make sense of the unexpected.

Only to discover that five parades later, one naked mayor has lost its impact.

Just played a game that contained...

unperemptoriness...

okay...

???

Huh?

Think I ran across unutterablenesses the other day. Just how much unutterablenesses does one need to rate plurality? If it's unutterable once, it's probably going to either continue to be unutterable--or become utterable with practise. Are there researched degrees of unutterableness? And if so, why isn't it taught in college?

Because it's unutterable?

How unutterably useless must a word be to... ?????

But...

what a hoot!

Sooooo entertaining.

Reminds me of a line in Elbow's Sad Captains : "and if it's so we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time." Meaning how wonderful (perfect) every moment can be, even against a backdrop of absurdity.

Hold on. I think I see our entire Congress cartwheeling pantiless in a blizzard. Someone must have convinced them to not only dress like the Emperor, but demonstrate their naked courage in the face of adversity.

A word! A word! My kingdom for a word!

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Headshake. Laugh.

ps: please feel free to post your naked mayors and cartwheeling senators here. Least we forget how odd they are.