business as usual

[lauralh]

2 oz of water + one packet Emergen-C + one diet coke = miracle hangover cure

How many of these words did you know? I guess I knew the first half.

I spent more money at the bar than, um, wow, ever, I think. But then I did get cash in exchange for providing alcohol to an underager. So it all works out, I suppose. Attempted a santorum shot, as well. Pretty good stuff, yo.

Comments

[wanton-bliss.livejournal.com]

The title of that article seems like a bit of a misnomer. I would argue that one can continue expanding one's vocabulary, but do so focusing on words that will actually be useful (unlike, say borborygmus).

I would rather see people understand how to use the words they already know. It would be nice, for example, if we could finally put to bed the old laying versus lying issue.

The online world already suffers from a superfluity of fustian ramblings flecked through with superfluous sesquipedalians.

Blech

[wanton-bliss.livejournal.com]

I used superfluity and superfluous in the same sentence. We must now agree to pretend that this was an intentional proof of concept.

[harryh.livejournal.com]

Wait, so you can just order a santorum in Seattle bars and the right thing happens? Or did you have to tell them how to make it?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

we had to explain.

[stick-figure.livejournal.com]

Borborygmus was the only word on that list I knew, but excessive belly-rumbling is a symptom of note in Oriental medicine.

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

Funny . . . that's the only word on the list that I didn't know. I guess that, between the two of us, we know everything.

Weird...

[wanton-bliss.livejournal.com]

I thought defenestration was sort of the trite twenty-five cent word that everybody knows, but no one uses.



My belly pretty consistently rumbles, by the way... Dare I ask what oriental medicine has to say on the matter?

Re: Weird...

[stick-figure.livejournal.com]

I actually had been exposed to the word but wouldn't have known it for sure without context. The only time I ever heard it was actually on a livejournal comment when I was relating an old manager's story about attempting to steal a crate of frozen chicken via defenestration...it exploded on impact, since the warehouse window was 40 feet up or so.

Digerati was another that I forgot was on the list when I made the comment.

From the index of my patterns book, I see various digestive deficiency patterns and a couple of emotions-affecting-digestion patterns. Not a hallmark symptom, but mentioned often enough that just about any om student will know the word.

[wanton-bliss.livejournal.com]

I don't think it is emotions so much as what I am putting in my mouth.

[ecid.livejournal.com]

Was it good?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yeah, tasted like a chocolate soda.