My first game of gmdm2

Tracer Bullet said:
Another one I had too look up. very few people of my age have larger vocabularies than me (although I can not spell any of it). it's always nice to run into someone who can better me verbaly and thereby grow my own ability.

Orph - :rolleyes: must you always go there?

1) you are reading text, that mike types, what makes you think he hasn't got a thesaurus handy :razz:

2) yes, when you are older, you will relish the times you can still do the things younger folks take for granted..

when was the last time someone insinuated you needed to wear diapers :razz:

get you a tablet, write down the silly little stuff i write, and hide it away till you are old enuff to start using them yourself :biggrin:

it will happen, sadly by then i really will need diapers

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I gave my brother in law a cane and a package of depends when he turned 30.

Thesaurus? Bah. I don't even own one. Though I think I should get some more dictionaries - the one I have doesn't list all the words I know :biggrin:

www.dictionary.com

all you will ever need :biggrin:

No. It doesn't contain the word, phthistic.

(which means old and withered, roughly)

Gollum said:
No. It doesn't contain the word, phthistic.

(which means old and withered, roughly)

mine is bent as well, but my wife seems ok with it.. :rolleyes:

re-hijack - you dont "try" anything, you just link to the image. Its been going around a ton of forums these last months.

Ah, language freaks... what they try to prove will alway be beyond me.

Indubitably :biggrin:

Gollum and I are both aflicted by sesquipedalianism. it's a trying malidy but it provides hours of entertainment.

Blimey, that's one I had to look up.

And I'm not trying to prove anything. I just love the language. Limiting your vocabulary is like only painting in one colour, to me.

Gollum said:
Blimey, that's one I had to look up.

And I'm not trying to prove anything. I just love the language. Limiting your vocabulary is like only painting in one colour, to me.

i remember the first time i said "f**k" in front of my grandma, she exclaimed "where did i learn such colorful words?" right before she filled my mouth with about a cup of dish soap..

the only color i saw was the pretty rainbows in the soap bubbles that were issuing from my foamy trap of a mouth :sad:

but i have heard this color before mike :biggrin:

It's not the length or how many words you know, it's how you weave and craft them that counts :smile:

As for dictionaries, don't invest in the Oxford series. So many entries missing from their much lauded pages. I use Chambers, myself.

And the rest of us can just keep on talking like we know what the actual point of language is... communication.

There is a whole variety of types of communication using language.

There is communication that is only intended to get a basic factual message across or ask a simple question. A good example is communicating in a foreign language when travelling: most of the time, you just want to know how to say very simple things like "Haben Sie Zimmer frei?" or "Ou est la gare, sil-vous-plait?" etc.

At the other end of the scale, perhaps, is literary communication. Here the subtlety of language can often be more important than the plot (look at Shakespeare for example - his plots are rubbish but his language is sublime).

lest we not forget the "FINGER"

its pretty much world renown :wink:

Actually gestures can mean very different things in different cultures. For example, in Peru the American "A-okay" ring made with forefinger and thumb is a very obscene gesture.

Gollum said:
Actually gestures can mean very different things in different cultures. For example, in Peru the American "A-okay" ring made with forefinger and thumb is a very obscene gesture.

i am sure thats the case in most homo-sexual communities as well :heee:

whispers

shame on you mike :smile:

Actually that's not what it means in Peru :razz: Quite, er.....quite the reverse in fact :heee:

Gollum said:
And I'm not trying to prove anything. I just love the language. Limiting your vocabulary is like only painting in one colour, to me.

Nicely put.

The point of language is, as Cass says, to communicate. Yet, the full richness of comunication cannot be realised without a broad vocabulary. different words, while nominaly synominous, can have subtle differences in meaning. useing one word over another can signify the atitude or emotion with which the information is expressed. This is especialy important in text-based comunication, due to the lack of any visual cues or body language.