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Heaven Forfend!
Occasionally I get the feeling I'm too much of a geek to live.
I was reading this fic and Wesley was all "Heaven forbid we..." and my brain was immediately "Forfend! He should have said forfend!".
Not for, you know, any valid reason; I just like forfend. Forfend doesn't see enough play.
Nor does "mountebank".
Ooh, carmine! Everyone says scarlet for blood. Blood could be carmine.
Haberdashery. Milieu. Felicitous. Pelisse. Iniquitous. Mercurial. Draconian. Poppet. Elevenses.
Ladle.
I like words. As I believe I've made more than plain.
And the English language is hideous large. People should take more advantage of that.
Use words people don't know. Trust them to be smart enough to figure them out, either from context clues or just a handy dictionary. Don't be afraid to be afraid to be esoteric or linguistically overwrought! It's better than being simplistic and pedestrian! Go ahead; go for baroque!
And I swear, that's funnier if you look it up.
Or at least I think so.
And one more thing: mmmm, Byzantine.
ETA: This damn spellcheck doesn't recognize forfend or pelisse! What is the world come to?
I was reading this fic and Wesley was all "Heaven forbid we..." and my brain was immediately "Forfend! He should have said forfend!".
Not for, you know, any valid reason; I just like forfend. Forfend doesn't see enough play.
Nor does "mountebank".
Ooh, carmine! Everyone says scarlet for blood. Blood could be carmine.
Haberdashery. Milieu. Felicitous. Pelisse. Iniquitous. Mercurial. Draconian. Poppet. Elevenses.
Ladle.
I like words. As I believe I've made more than plain.
And the English language is hideous large. People should take more advantage of that.
Use words people don't know. Trust them to be smart enough to figure them out, either from context clues or just a handy dictionary. Don't be afraid to be afraid to be esoteric or linguistically overwrought! It's better than being simplistic and pedestrian! Go ahead; go for baroque!
And I swear, that's funnier if you look it up.
Or at least I think so.
And one more thing: mmmm, Byzantine.
ETA: This damn spellcheck doesn't recognize forfend or pelisse! What is the world come to?
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