tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post2945230733142302250..comments2024-03-28T09:08:18.131-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: The Cemetery of Lost Words by Connie BerryJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-83790129886969076652020-10-22T20:41:10.203-04:002020-10-22T20:41:10.203-04:00Interesting. Actually, slugabed was frequently use...Interesting. Actually, slugabed was frequently used by my family when I was growing up. My mother had very rigid ideas about when people should arise from their beds, no excuses accepted. Otherwise, you were a true slugabed. Even if you had worked an overnight shift and fell into bed at 6 AM. You had to get up by 8.<br /><br />The last time I heard "Ephemeral" used was by a biker with an amazing vocabulary. He described the high one got off a certain drug with the term. When he was arrested and charged with murder, the interrogators who recorded his statement had to go back over it later and look up some of the words he'd used, like "importune."KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-30014489838681638602020-10-22T13:46:00.813-04:002020-10-22T13:46:00.813-04:00I love these! Slugabed! That's what I strive t...I love these! Slugabed! That's what I strive to be, if only insomnia and my cat would allow!<br /><br />Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755947919433555176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-63483494998892501082020-10-22T08:41:46.914-04:002020-10-22T08:41:46.914-04:00Fortnight - I love that word, always have. Its fal...Fortnight - I love that word, always have. Its fallen from use in US English - at least in my part of the US and I'm sorry to see it go. Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-9068820036765814572020-10-22T08:37:46.096-04:002020-10-22T08:37:46.096-04:00I celebrate the old-timey words in hymns and Chris...I celebrate the old-timey words in hymns and Christmas carols.Margaret S. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07810307017440257313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-4866209800708848572020-10-22T07:45:13.983-04:002020-10-22T07:45:13.983-04:00I'm a philistine when it comes to lost words. ...I'm a philistine when it comes to lost words. What good does it do to have a million plus words when the average person knows only 40,000 and doesn't know when to use less or fewer, subject or object pronouns?<br /><br />With age and experience, I've found that general words combined with hand illustrations work wonders for describing things for which you can't remember the names. You know, the doohickey, that's about this big that you fit over the top of the thingamabob to open the whatchamacallit. Adding appropriate gestures and your conversant supplies church key, bottle cap, and soda bottle.<br /><br />Tongue in cheek, of course. But I treasure those who can be precise without resorting to multisyllabic anachronisms so I can keep on reading without having to haul out a dictionary to figure out what they are trying to say. (Although, I am more tolerant when I read with my Kindle and holding my finger over the word magically produces its definition.)Jim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.com