I agree on all of those, particularly "lambent."Thaale wrote:Telic, gelid, and lambent were some of the other ones I always identified with him
What SRD word have you grown to HATE! ;-)
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Least favorite word
That would have to be "preternatural". I've never counted uses, but it's many, and it trips the mind while reading.
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word
"... groaned"
Guess who? Yes, that's right. You won the toaster.
On the same subject: "Chosen"
I mean... How played is that, and it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue naturally in a battle: "Chosen! We must run for the hills!"
Guess who? Yes, that's right. You won the toaster.
On the same subject: "Chosen"
I mean... How played is that, and it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue naturally in a battle: "Chosen! We must run for the hills!"
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Well... It was used three times in The Wounded Land, and once in The One Tree...MrKABC wrote:
<laughing> I still think "fornication" when I read those pages... Can't help it... I have never heard of the word "formication" until I picked up Runes!
But I don't like it either!
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Add "sojourn" to the list. As a verb, SRD seems to think that means "travel" rather than "stay" (e.g., "Yet my sojourn through the seas to accompany you was slow and sorely painful to one who has been sent from his home in Elemesnedene."; or "While this sun holds, we will sojourn in daylight, sleeping only at night."), and he sometimes uses it transitively (e.g., "From the home and center of Elemesnedene, we sojourned all the wide Earth, seeking that which we have now learned to seek within ourselves."), even though it is intransitive.
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Puissant! PUISSANT!!
Also: roborant (haranguing mechas fit not this universe), succor (sounds too much like sucker), theurgy, anything that excessively imitates Lovecraft; formication due to the all too easy m/n switch...and stiffen in context such as this:
Also: roborant (haranguing mechas fit not this universe), succor (sounds too much like sucker), theurgy, anything that excessively imitates Lovecraft; formication due to the all too easy m/n switch...and stiffen in context such as this:
A warrior's mind always draws parallels to swords and sheaths.The Masters stiffened.

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Roynish (of course).
Nitid
Samite
Cymar
Sendaline
But by far the most grating of 'em all?
Nitid
Samite
Cymar
Sendaline
But by far the most grating of 'em all?
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Linden
Newsflash: the word "irony" doesn't mean "a bit like iron" 
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Funny stuff in here...especially the Linden thing for those silly enough to abhor Linden.
But here's a game for you haters:
Go back, find all the places your hated words exist, then rewrite the sentences without sounding like you aren't a really shitty writer...like the "See Spot run" folk, or the [adult...children are forgiven] readers who think this:
crap, poop, shite, BM, defecation, discharge, dung, excrement, excretion, fecal matter, feculence
SHIT.
[[there are more, need I go on?]]
But here's a game for you haters:
Go back, find all the places your hated words exist, then rewrite the sentences without sounding like you aren't a really shitty writer...like the "See Spot run" folk, or the [adult...children are forgiven] readers who think this:
is "poetry" and not:I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day, 5
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain. 10
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
crap, poop, shite, BM, defecation, discharge, dung, excrement, excretion, fecal matter, feculence
SHIT.
[[there are more, need I go on?]]
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.