What SRD word have you grown to HATE! ;-)

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 11:06 pm

Inchoate

Post by **Steve Hurtloam** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:19 am

eldritch. caught my eye the first time i saw it in Runes. Had to look it up. it's used quite a bit.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:43 am

In Second Chrons, too!

Post by **W.B.** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:23 am

It seems like every book has an Official Word. Like gelid for The Power that Preserves.

Puissant is THE Runes word to me.

I liked formication because it has such a specific meaning. It would be awkward to say "Then she felt a sensation like ants crawling on her skin." But I always read it as fornication first. Now I wonder if when I see fornication, I'll read formication.

BTW, re: telic, I agree that it is an odd duck. It means

1. directed or tending toward a goal or purpose; purpose-driven 2. denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic (ecbatic denotes a mere result or consequence, which differes from telic, which denotes intention or purpose)

One telic is in TOT:

"Linden found herself breathing the pellucid and crackling scents of autumn as if her lungs were eager for the odd way in which the atmosphere here tasted telic, deliberate—wrested from the dour Rim and the Raw by powers she could not begin to comprehend."

Which sort of makes sense, because autumn is the end of the year, etc. etc., and perhaps the incomprehensible powers have some goal in mind for the air, but it's strange all the same.

Then in TWL I guess it means "purposeful":

"Telic red burned at him from all sides; every rukh was aflame with compulsion."

Post by **[Syl]** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:40 pm

I thought "cerements" was the Runes word.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:54 pm

I think there are a couple of things on this page that should be Spoilered, since they relate to Runes, and (astoundingly

) not everyone has read it yet.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:38 pm

I don't think anything has been revealed up to this point, but it would be wise to spoiler any Runes comments in this forum.

Post by **Sunbaneglasses** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:16 am

copse

Post by **The Pumpkin King** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:21 am

On the note of this subject....

Surprisingly, I don't remember reading the word "Roynish" ONCE in Runes!

Post by **Cybrweez** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:20 pm

Puissant is a bad one, but the one that came to mind when I saw this thread is "augury". Through first 120+ pages of Runes, and this word has gotten on my nerves.

Post by **Aranion** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:42 pm

"Inchoate" (which I always want to pronounce "in-ko-ate" for some reason) and "lugubrious" (used a lot in Mordant, not so much in TC novels). HATE that word.

Post by **perversion** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:14 pm

From the first two chronicles -

vehement
vertigo

and from runes, it's gotta be discernment.

Post by **Creator** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:26 am

perversion wrote:From the first two chronicles -

vehement
vertigo

and from runes, it's gotta be discernment.

Hail and welcome perversion!!

[Did I just say that!!

]
Enjoy your time at the Watch!!

As to the words - U2 / Bono must have liked vertigo!!! Perhaps he's an SRD fan!!

Post by **perversion** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:38 pm

Thanks Creator -

This looks like a great forum with some good people. I've been a SRD fan for years, and I was very excited to have found this site.

well, I'm off to lurk in the Movie section. Imagine my surprise and excitement that there is even talk of making The Chronicles into a movie. I can't wait!

perversion

Post by **Kimi** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:53 pm

+1 formication

I get it, she feels bugs - ick. Yeah, is it necessary, REALLY necessary, to tell me about feeling bugs EVERY time?

Post by **malinda_maloney** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:23 pm

I'm pretty sure that if I had the choice, I would never want to hear the word vertigo again.

There's another word that bugs me too... but I forgot what it was. I'll look it up sometime.

Post by **malinda_maloney** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:53 am

I know what it is... it's volition. That's getting on my nerves quite quickly.[/i]

Post by **ur-bane** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:28 pm

You know, I can understand formication and puissance as annoying because of the frequency of their use within a limited span of pages, coupled with the fact that they are not "everyday" words. I felt they were overused.

But vertigo, volition, vehement, copse? That's just reaching. Why not get annoyed at the word "the."There is a difference between use and overuse. Those I do not see as annoying at all. There is no formication in those words.

Post by **Thaale** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:57 pm

I agree with Myste et al about roynish. I always kind of liked the fact that he had his pet words, and most I didn't mind, but that one is just too ugly (and obscure).

Telic, gelid, and lambent were some of the other ones I always identified with him.

One other word I've grown to dislike from SRD is sojourn, because he misuses it so often.

Actually, a lot of those other words come up very often in fantasy. Puissant, for instance. If you read a lot of fantasy (or a lot, period) you come across puissant, etc., enough that one author's (over-)use of it probably wouldn't even strike you. But I don't thin there's anywhere other than an SRD book that you'd consistently see roynish.

Aranion wrote:"Inchoate" (which I always want to pronounce "in-ko-ate" for some reason)

That's correct, so your instincts are good.

Post by **lurch** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:38 pm

...hate is awfully strong,,but there are two words when used together by SRD, i come close to an emotional extreme. The words are; " The End".
.......MEL

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What SRD word have you grown to HATE! ;-)

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