Saturday, January 21, 2012

In Which I Ramble: Words

Being both a reader and a writer, I love words.

I love learning new ones, I develop favorites, and I try to use them as much as I can.

One I recently discovered was 'lethologica' which means the inability to recall a precise word at a given time.
Another is zenzizenzizenzic which is a mathematical expression that represents a number raised to the eighth power.

And so on, and so forth.

I just find the construction of words so interesting, and I am amazed at the sheer number of words that exist. Words for things one would never think that they'd need a word for...

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