I Love New Words

["Mad" Miles]

Hey Waccobbabies,

In the course of my stomping around this site (internet, not physically "in the world") yesterday. I've had a couple of private replies which introduced me to new words. I won't reveal my sources, but the words are:

Lampolier
(Actually this one seems familiar, but it's not a word I use regularly.)

Vortician

Any guesses as to their meaning? Feel free to google, dictionary.com, etc.

Without words, could we think?

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[Valley Oak]

I looked up this definition in the online Merriam dictionary. I could not find the exact word "vortician" so I'm inclined to believe that the user of this "word" took the liberty of creating it, which is okay with me depending on how the "author" takes those liberties:

I'm going to guess that the author used his or her term, "vortician," in a potentially sarcastic or even pejorative and critical manner, reproaching a group of individuals or a specific person. And for the same reason, I'm also guessing that the "vortician" is conjuring up nonsense or lies or deception of some kind, such as a "kafkian" notion that is confusing or perhaps untrue. Perhaps also comparable to "spinning the truth."

Main Entry: vor·ti·cism
Pronunciation: \ˈvȯr-tə-ˌsi-zəm\
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Latin vortic-, vortex
Date: 1914
: an English abstract art movement from about 1912–15 embracing cubist and futurist concepts
— vor·ti·cist \-sist\ noun or adjective often capitalized


Hey Waccobbabies,

In the course of my stomping around this site (internet, not physically "in the world") yesterday. I've had a couple of private replies which introduced me to new words. I won't reveal my sources, but the words are:

Lampolier
(Actually this one seems familiar, but it's not a word I use regularly.)

Vortician

Any guesses as to their meaning? Feel free to google, dictionary.com, etc.

Without words, could we think?

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[alanora]

my new word whose definition eludes me...palimpsest.


Hey Waccobbabies,

In the course of my stomping around this site (internet, not physically "in the world") yesterday. I've had a couple of private replies which introduced me to new words. I won't reveal my sources, but the words are:

Lampolier
(Actually this one seems familiar, but it's not a word I use regularly.)

Vortician

Any guesses as to their meaning? Feel free to google, dictionary.com, etc.

Without words, could we think?

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[LenInSebastopol]

my new word whose definition eludes me...palimpsest.

It is manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible

[decterlove]

"words are stupid, words are fun"

my favorite recent...........Interspecial as in, "Anybody wanna have interspecial sex tonight?"

"words are stupid, words are fun"

What are words worth?


Hey Waccobbabies,

In the course of my stomping around this site (internet, not physically "in the world") yesterday. I've had a couple of private replies which introduced me to new words. I won't reveal my sources, but the words are:

Lampolier
(Actually this one seems familiar, but it's not a word I use regularly.)

Vortician

Any guesses as to their meaning? Feel free to google, dictionary.com, etc.

Without words, could we think?

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[Sciguy]

As the person who laid the word lampolier on Miles, I was referring to light workers which seems to me to be one more neologism worth lampooning. I had in mind words like lightolier (I think the lighting stores use this); maybe chandelier, or chanticleer. I don't recognize vortician though I assume it actually comes from vortex. I'm watching the TV series Heroes on Netflix and there is someone there with a special power to create vortices that sweep up anyone he wants to catch in one. I guess he could be that kind of vortician. Or maybe he's like a mortician, treating people who are vorbid. Beware the Jabberwok and shun the vorbid Bandersnatch.

Paul Palmer



"words are stupid, words are fun"

my favorite recent...........Interspecial as in, "Anybody wanna have interspecial sex tonight?"

"words are stupid, words are fun"

What are words worth?