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by Debbymoge
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Contumelious
Replies: 4
Views: 4005

Re: Contumelious

David, please, don't despair.
VOTE! (I don't care where you live)

Debby M
by Debbymoge
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Malleable
Replies: 7
Views: 4028

Re: Malleable

Slava, I agree.
I would offer the idea that one proper way, if not THE proper way, to add a bit of support without stiffening the brain, is called "knowledge".
by Debbymoge
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:13 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Taciturn
Replies: 5
Views: 8455

Re: Taciturn

Slava, going to have to ponder that a bit.
Will be in touch.
by Debbymoge
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Taciturn
Replies: 5
Views: 8455

Re: Taciturn

Slava, could you explain a bit about the source of your discomfort?
by Debbymoge
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Pejorative
Replies: 5
Views: 1185

Re: Pejorative

Is "major" also from the same root?
by Debbymoge
Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Orthogonal
Replies: 2
Views: 915

Re: Orthogonal

I must admit to being a bit surprised that the teenagers' favorite "ortho-" was not first on the list.

Orthodonture.
by Debbymoge
Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:21 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Winsome
Replies: 10
Views: 3315

Re: Winsome

Slava, my point precisely!

well, perhaps with a touch of the Gorgon to it also?)
by Debbymoge
Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Winsome
Replies: 10
Views: 3315

Re: Winsome

David, from where I sit, you're as attractive as ever. The superficial (or superfacial in this case?) is of "no mind nor merit" in my world. In your case, as with the others I've met on here, the mind IS the merit and all that is required for people in my world to be gorgeous. (hmmmm wonde...
by Debbymoge
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Winsome
Replies: 10
Views: 3315

Re: Winsome

winsome man

handsome woman

any comments?
by Debbymoge
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Samey
Replies: 6
Views: 8358

Re: Samey

Slava,
May seem more polite, but much depends on tone of voice, no?
by Debbymoge
Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Lugubrious
Replies: 2
Views: 1247

Re: Lugubrious

Dear Doctor,
Did you have the hiccups?
The posting appeared twice on here.
by Debbymoge
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Chicanery
Replies: 3
Views: 4021

Re: Chicanery

Barbara, really?
Chicanery on the part of large companies dealing in large contracts in politically granted jobs funded by taxpayers?
Of course that can't be true!
You'd think the taxpayers didn't vote or something...

sigh
by Debbymoge
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:27 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Sojourn
Replies: 7
Views: 3584

Re: Sojourn

The City, it be Melbourne, no?
by Debbymoge
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:11 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Kvetch
Replies: 4
Views: 12050

Re: Kvetch

Oh! really? Despite my mother's avoidance of all things culinary and linguistic from her early years until one of my elder sisters went to Brandeis, kvetch was in use often in our house. There were other words and phrases that didn't break through till cousins began having bar mitzvahs (no bat mitzv...
by Debbymoge
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Enemy
Replies: 2
Views: 8329

Re: Enemy

What is the "om..." or "omn..." in omnymi?

Again, my thanks in advance...

Debby

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