Post a word you have not heard anyone use in a long time.
[c=002673]Today, I thought I heard someone use the word "asinine." [/c]
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SomeMichGuy · M
Ineffable
Truculent
Verisimilitudinous
Estimable
Monotonically
Horology
Syncretistic
zounds, gadzooks, & odd's bodkins
Truculent
Verisimilitudinous
Estimable
Monotonically
Horology
Syncretistic
zounds, gadzooks, & odd's bodkins
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@SomeMichGuy [c=800000]I am sure I have NEVER heard many of those used conversationally. [/c]
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SomeMichGuy · M
@ProfessorPlum77 lol
"Ineffable" is likely to be heard in theological discussion.
"Truculent"...surprising the last few years haven't brought this out! 😉
"Verisimilitude" & related forms should be familiar due to both huge increases in image reproduction and due to the vast strides in VR. *shrug*
"Estimable" never caught on in the US...and maybe lived more in 19th century novels than in the actual speech of that era, in England.
"Monotonically" is usually used in a math context. I used it once at a neighborhood social event and it wss like E. F. Hutton speaking...
"Horology" is now dustier due to our abandonment of things purely mechanical.
"Syncretism" and other forms are usually used in theology (or philosophy).
The last trio I first heard years ago in a children's animated holiday feature (with stop-action); it was uttered by a medieval knight character.
"Ineffable" is likely to be heard in theological discussion.
"Truculent"...surprising the last few years haven't brought this out! 😉
"Verisimilitude" & related forms should be familiar due to both huge increases in image reproduction and due to the vast strides in VR. *shrug*
"Estimable" never caught on in the US...and maybe lived more in 19th century novels than in the actual speech of that era, in England.
"Monotonically" is usually used in a math context. I used it once at a neighborhood social event and it wss like E. F. Hutton speaking...
"Horology" is now dustier due to our abandonment of things purely mechanical.
"Syncretism" and other forms are usually used in theology (or philosophy).
The last trio I first heard years ago in a children's animated holiday feature (with stop-action); it was uttered by a medieval knight character.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@SomeMichGuy [c=800000]Upon reflection, I have heard "truculent" used on occasion. "Verisimilitude" is also a theological term, isn't it? [/c]
SomeMichGuy · M
@ProfessorPlum77 I have heard verisimilitude used with respect to, e.g., descriptive writing, paintings...but not in the theology I have encountered.
It might well be used in philosophy, with questions raised by technology which one could argue refreshes and recasts Plato's cave suggestion in a more...[i]Matrix[/i]-like or virtual reality form. As we have seen TVs go from a really poor "standard definition"--one where the sole camera at a stadium sporting event (placed high up, by the press booths) could not reproduce legible numbers covering the backs of, e.g., American football players--through strides of *that* analog broadcast mode to digital broadcasts and TVs which van reproduce a show's host in full size, and show every pore on his or her face (and, along with vast reductions in size & weight & costs, made your own home the best seat for the game!), we have seen the gap between "reality directly observed" and the verisimilitude attempted by TV broadcasts be reduced to...nothing. That *earns* a proper use of "verisimiltude".
Let's see...yes, Wikipedia casts the term in philosophy, but it's clear that arguing theologians could use it quite handily, as well, in the sense expounded upon in the article.
It might well be used in philosophy, with questions raised by technology which one could argue refreshes and recasts Plato's cave suggestion in a more...[i]Matrix[/i]-like or virtual reality form. As we have seen TVs go from a really poor "standard definition"--one where the sole camera at a stadium sporting event (placed high up, by the press booths) could not reproduce legible numbers covering the backs of, e.g., American football players--through strides of *that* analog broadcast mode to digital broadcasts and TVs which van reproduce a show's host in full size, and show every pore on his or her face (and, along with vast reductions in size & weight & costs, made your own home the best seat for the game!), we have seen the gap between "reality directly observed" and the verisimilitude attempted by TV broadcasts be reduced to...nothing. That *earns* a proper use of "verisimiltude".
Let's see...yes, Wikipedia casts the term in philosophy, but it's clear that arguing theologians could use it quite handily, as well, in the sense expounded upon in the article.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@SomeMichGuy [c=800000]Thank you for the research! [/c]
SomeMichGuy · M
@ProfessorPlum77 Hey, it is no problem for a fellow lover of words!