Favorite word

[Carbon Class Six]

Occultists seem to have a thing for words, so out with it! what's your favorite? (besides ABRAHADABRA, of course :p)

I really like the word Euphoria...it just rolls off the tongue in a way that other words don't - and the feeling it conveys is immense. It's a powerful word packaged very smoothly.

In Spanish my favorite word is "japonés" (ha-po-nay-s) just because it's fun to say.

My favorite word in French is "jus d'orange" because I can say with gusto like I feel French should be spoken in...which makes it even funnier because all I'm saying is "Orange Juice" but with more emotion than most other words I ever say :laugh:

[Naomi]

I have a few, Ningishzidda is one, a few others:

ancient, stygian, blackness, ethereal, heat, eternal, opulence, charming, archaic, slut, satan, ninja, madame (i prefer this to ma'am and customers look at you funny or laugh about it when I worked retail) mademoiselle too, scorpion, mako, miao, onikudaki, budo, death, bastardized, malevolent, darkness, madness, pussy, cock, makeout, flesh, yuck (mr. yuck stickers, duh!) mneme, steel, erotic, exotic, peacock, terse, vixen, fox, kitsune-bi, tengu, karasu, kwakiutlkwasa, kangi tanka, sungila, celestial, cosmic, stellar, universal, lunar, mars, saturnian, ouranos, fucker, star, motherfucker, godamnit, damnit, piss, scheisa, verfluchtnochmal, (german) aiya (chinese, exclamation, you have to say it a certain way) nan da yo? (japanese "wtf") samsara, love, power, despair, currents, threads, tantra, light, serpent, viper, cobra, naja, dragon, lung, nasty, arabesque, insidious, stealth, bizarre, brutal, anarchy, eyeshadow, shadowdancing, alien, demon, devil, grotesque (classical def.) weird (classical def.) ocean, outerspace, space alien, magician, sorcerer, sorceress, heretic, hierophant, highpriest, pater, nocturnal, blood, ripple, chainsaw, kill, neat, never, seduce, cool, storm, rattlesnake, golden, silver, midnight, phoenix (overused) sappho, suicide, abyssmal, endless, transfusion, fascination, witch, male, anatomical, enraptured, bliss, loyalty, silence, I.'.I.'.I.'.I

[Anibis]

I like the Humunculus alot. Also Ribald, and Incomensurable. I like the carney word Gaff (as opposed to the fisherman's Gaffe). In general I also like the names of various animals: Wombats, Walrii, Weasles, and Bison... I'll post more when I think of them. Palenque is a great word, although it's a name... I find native languages have some beautiful words. Kamautaukatshiut means 'People who do tricks' in Innu-Aimum (language of the Innu of Labrador and Northern Quebec). Apparently the word Wedigo (i.e.windego) which means cannibal in Cree means "penis" in Innu... Weird.
-A-

[Anibis]

And of course, I like the word "Borghal Rantipole"

Delirium: Down the road I go. I am following my fishie. La la laa. Because my fish knows where to go. My fish is the Borghal Rantipole who I made look like a fishie because I am so clever and I can do things like that if I want . . . la la la . . . I am so clever. . . la la la . . . it knows many thingummies. The Borghal Rantipole, that is. And now it is inconspicuous too as well. La la laa. I am following my fishie. Hello, pretty lady. I am following my fish. Looking for my doggie. Both. At the same time. If you don’t let me in, I will turn you into a demon half-face waitress nightclub-lady with a crush on her boss, and I’ll make it so you’ve been that from the beginning of time to now and you’ll never know if you were anything else and it will itch inside your head worse than little bugses.


This is Neil Gaiman, from Sandman...
-A-

[deviadah]

At the moment my favourite words are (and have been for some time now):

anathema

gnosis

re-evolution

And the word I loath is:

content

:cool:

[MythMath]

Content as a noun, a verb or an adjective...? :p

[deviadah]

Content as a noun, a verb or an adjective...? :p
As a state of mind!

:D

[frater luciferi]

MEME
PARADIGM
MACROCOSM
MICROCOSM
GNOSIS
ALL
DAO
SYNCRONICITY
SERENDIPITY
TRUTH
ILLUMINATION
SORCEROR
EXTANT


those so far are my favorite..

[Anibis]

I've notices that some folk go for words for their sound, and others for their meaning. To what degree is a word a favorite for these different reasons?
-A-

[Amur]

my favorite is: "OMG THEY KILLED MY BUNNY" :laugh:

[Naomi]

That's a phrase, Amur!

[deviadah]

This could be seen as a phrase, but I say it like one word (at least once a day):

Scum-muthafuckin'-whore!

Best cuss in the world, and one that both sounds good and has meaning!

:cool:

[m1thr0s]

my favorite words change all the time...right now I am sort of enamored with *unpeople* - a term I picked up from Noam Chomsky - who didn't invent the term but has expounded a great deal on its meaning. This word basically is an empiricists perception of all people not *of the empire*...people who don't really count since they aren't the *owners of the world* as Chomski puts it...

So for people like Bush for instance...Irag has no real meaning and Iraqi's are all a bunch of *unpeople*...

Scary term but very real and an extremely recurrent theme in world politics...

When people become *unpeople*, of course, the rules of humane conduct no longer apply to them...how very convenient...

There is a term for people like Bush as well...that term is *monster*...but when monsters *own the world* they get to enjoy the freedom of not being called what they are in public. And it doesn't matter what I might say for instance, since I am, afterall, an *unperson*...easy! Any godamm moron can employ this crap, and many godamm morons have done so.

m1thr0s

[frater luciferi]

unpeople

pigs vs. dogs and wolves.. :P

[Naomi]

lol the "ipeople and "unpeople" whereas "ipeople" only care for themselves and reside in the "iverse", unpeople reside in the much less friendly universe....

[Amur]

That's a phrase, Amur!

Pff, it's still good! :laugh:

[Kuroyagi]

Right now its mascarpone, strangely enough...

Anibis: you have asked for those two types and I am (from my natural inclination) nearly purely the "sound" type...

I remember annoying my relatives and friends as a kid by repeating a word or phrase over and over...now I remember: I somtimes thought: why dont they see it? (the word loses all sense and puts you into "trance" and opens a new dimension if made senseless like this?...couldnt formualte it then as explicit as now of course.) But the others simply listened to the most superficial outer meaning and didnt get it...

[Anibis]

K; yeah, I'm like that too. I have ideas that I like alot, and words that I like alot, and the two don't always intersect... Burgeoning is a word I like, and coelacanth, also. Somtimes words can be made up that sound cool: Octopoid, for example... When I was a kid, I invented the word 'ilk', only to learn that it was a real word later... (I didn't define it, I just said it alot... I am enjoying the word Menturg at the moment, also.
-Anibis

[Radiant Star]

Today I like elementary

[Fio Praeter Humanus]

I like titillation, because it sounds dirty but is isn't. Also my favorite blasphemy is Christ on a cracker.

[MythMath]

I like titillation, because it sounds dirty but is isn't.
It can be, if you do it just right... :p

[Naomi]

my tits are clean

[Templa]

The norwegian word for "never"; "Aldri".
A thousand times more powerful than "never", strangely enough.