out of curiosity

[aesc]

What is your favorite word of all time, the word that fills you with bizarre, ineffable happiness whenever you get the chance to use or say it?

Mine is 'sloth,' although my favorite not-English word is Old English neorxnawong, which is the word for Paradise (as in, the Garden of Eden). Nay-orx-na-wong! Say it!

I ask this question periodically because I love words and I love it when people talk about them and enjoy them. It makes me happy and it relaxes me.

Back tonight with fic! \o/

Comments

[villainny.livejournal.com]

It's the combinations and the context that count, though!

I do love words for concepts that everyone understands but no one has words for, if that makes any sense. The meaning of Liff is a book that Douglas Adams co-wrote which uses the names of obscure English towns to cover concepts such as that moment where you see someone at the other end of a corridor that you know, and you realise you'll have to either pretend you haven't seen them or do elaborate pirate impressions until you're close enough for a greeting.

*grins*

I love heek, though, which is the phonetic interpretation of a word that means 'tastes like the smell of'. It's awesome.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It's the combinations and the context that count, though!

Oh, of course! But there are words I just like to say, by themselves, not necessarily with reference to a wider context. I just love "sloth," how it sounds, how it perfectly describes the sort of inertia that overtakes me when I decide maybe the thing to do is refresh icanhascheezburger for the tenth time. So I ooze down in my chair and murmur "slothhhhh" to myself and click refresh again.