Thoughts of genocide on my walk to work this morning. Not about genocide-genocide, but about zhee word itself, which is beautiful. Here are some other beautiful words for not so terrible things.
And a list inspired by a list...
Words I'd dew:
Esoteric
Cadence
Opaque
Catharsis
Pluvial
Sprinkle (!)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
take a walk on the genocide
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my favorite part is the decipherability of words, like how "pluvial" has to do with rain, related to "impluvium" which was a big tank in the middle of the room of an ancient Roman house, used to catch rain from the roof.
ph: HAHAHAlarious.
speaking of...
a very cool website told me in ancient Rome, Hilaria (neut. pl. of hilaris) were a class of holidays and times of pomp and rejoicing -- there were public ones at the spring equinoxes (equinoxes = my jam) and private ones on the day of a marriage or a son's birth.
Am simultaneously drawn to and repulsed by the word "Hilaria" because my own name is attractive to my eyez but also, diarrhea.
ok i can get on the roman boat. "vomitorium." neither a word i'd do nor a word that i'd like to decipher but i'll do the latter.
vomitorium
yum.
parny: tenks for spewing the knowledge -- eue exploded the myth of the v-tor, which i did always think was for bacchanalian post-prandial purgin'
i figured it was a lot like an impluvium, but with more surprises held within.
can't imagine what giddiness drama majors get out of saying that their college stage has a vomitorium. i'll bet they clap and jump simultaneously.
wheee...this is the most comments ever!!
*claps and jumps simultaneously*
my favorite werd: Snack (!!)
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