Comments by meeralee

  • Then perhaps I should remove it. :-) Thanks, slumry!

    July 23, 2007

  • Thank you! :-)

    April 16, 2007

  • misanthrope too strong? Then there are the lovely anchorite and eremite.

    March 31, 2007

  • Not a back formation, but today I read an ad looking for "impactive" photographs.

    Gaaaaargh.

    March 23, 2007

  • On this list because I always think it has the connotation of insidiousness, which it doesn't really.

    February 28, 2007

  • What about arak? They drink it in the Middle East -- it's a grape-based alcohol flavored with aniseed and mixed with water before sipping.

    I think it's pretty foul, myself. :-)

    February 27, 2007

  • I can't believe I forgot this word for my Blanguage list. :-)

    February 27, 2007

  • Hmmm. Pause? It doesn't work in your sentence, but it does work with "Instead of saying what he meant, uselessness (BLANKED) meaningfully."

    February 22, 2007

  • Devilry (or deviltry, which I prefer)? Prank?

    February 21, 2007

  • Blaspheme is perfect. Thank you!

    February 21, 2007

  • Blurb is great. I considered blistering and blow, but I think I want to stick to words with an obvious and major relationship to language.

    February 21, 2007

  • You just made my entire day. :-)

    February 20, 2007

  • In my opinion, a delicious word to say.

    February 20, 2007

  • Surely ur!

    February 20, 2007

  • Ooh. Awesome list. There's cow and worm.

    February 20, 2007

  • Yokel? Galoot?

    February 20, 2007

  • I lifted snare, gimmick, feint, and hustle!

    February 20, 2007

  • I'm always mistakenly thinking it refers to a large machine, like a tractor. Lovely word, though.

    February 20, 2007

  • Ooh -- thanks for dodge! I think I need to be convinced about wheeze..

    February 20, 2007

  • Lovely! Thank you!

    February 20, 2007

  • I just remembered that Hebrew has words for "the day before yesterday," "the day after tomorrow," and "yesternight." I'm not sure if any of them have adjectival forms, though.

    February 18, 2007

  • I love that gauche and ganache are next to each other on your list. They're a lovely pair. And now I'm doing my best to imagine "a gauche ganache."

    February 17, 2007

  • Well, it might be a candidate for someone else's list of the same name...

    :-)

    February 17, 2007

  • What about boor and goon?

    February 16, 2007

  • I think of it the same way you do.

    February 16, 2007

  • For some reason, even though this word contains its meaning, I always find myself thinking it means either its opposite -- something that will not abate -- or else that it means "a lack of".

    February 16, 2007

  • reestee, that's funny -- nonplussed sounds exactly like its meaning to me. ;-)

    sionnach, enervating is definitely an odd one. It helps me that I kind of sigh when I say it.

    I'm adding some of these to the list!

    February 16, 2007

  • ...I always think it means "stubborn." Not only that, but I think it _should_ mean "stubborn."

    February 15, 2007

  • None of the standard links will find anything on this word, but there's a citation here and another here.

    February 15, 2007