Words: POX

wow great thread revive!

that's only four

Crepuscular
Phenomenological
Gerrymander
Bollocks
Gestalt
Holistic
Hermeneutics
Snorlax
Disgruntled
Emulsify

Damnit gestalt already used this morning! I blame Alfred.

Sub it out for ‘pancake’.

gestalt pancakes are the best

also, album title: "gestalt fomo" (12+1 tracks all about various people who aren't on twitter and instragram)

Crepuscular is a good one. my family is a crepuscular gestalt, because one of us is a cat, and one of us is me.

Abattoir. Cool word terrible meaning.

Another meeting the same criteria: Surimi

Oubliette is better than Abattoir.

that's only four

― El Tomboto, Saturday, October 14, 2017 2:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i was going to post my 10 right after that but decided to take my time. been meaning to come back here for the last few days

correspondence
muzzle
adjacent
parsimonious
smoke
perspicacity
insignificance
intolerance
blister
soulmate

Casablancas
Valensi
Hammond
Fraiture
Moretti

shit, I love correspondence and perspicacity

why smoke though

(imagines jeremy irons saying the word smoke) nevermind

its abrupt, warm, and blunt sound, its many meanings, its symbolic richness

Word I just learned, and love: amanuensis (n. a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary)

Any word that Stephin Merritt could use as the title for a 6ths album is good.

"Phthalates"

xp re: amanuensis

funnily enough, a common word in Dutch in a secondary school context (at least in my days):

In the Netherlands it refers to a (technically schooled) physics, chemistry or biology laboratory assistant responsible for preparing and assisting with or conducting laboratory demonstrations and maintaining the instruments. When employed as such in a school environment s/he will have the title of "TOA" ("technisch-onderwijsassistent", i.e. Technical Teaching Assistant).