EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Quote: All these $5 words are giving me a massive headache

 

[daxigait]

I guess you passed on venison, or do you have a doe only season left?

 

[Chaos18]

I have this little box that says go invisible...

Maybe you should go invisible

 

[BantyChooks]

Alas, the "invisible" button doesn't work in real life....

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
Oh, I loved that one as well!!!! I think I didn't comment on it because I was, well, rather sleepy myself during the read back.

I have a lovely collection of essays by Anne Fadiman called Ex Libris, which I adore The essay "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" is about a quiz made of the 22 words she (as someone with a very good vocabulary) did NOT know in a book she was reading (The Tiger in the House by Carl Van Vechten, written in the 1920s). Her brother knew 9, her father knew 12.

How many do you guys know (WITHOUT looking them up)?

monophysite
mephitis
calineries
diapason
grimoire
adapertile
retromingent
perllan
cupellation
adytum
sepoy
subadar
paludal
apozemical
camorra
ithyphallic
alcade
aspergill
agathodemon
kakodemon
goetic
opopanax

(I only knew three when I read this.)

- Ant Farm

(edit: OMG, BYC autocorrected her last name to "Radioman"!)

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: All these $5 words are giving me a massive headache

I guess you passed on venison, or do you have a doe only season left?

Didn't see a thing today. We can take 1 buck, more with a special tag, but any buck I take is gonna have to be a bragger; does eat better. Have a 3-day archery season going on now, then 2 weeks of muzzleloader.

 

[BantyChooks]

Kristen, I think you just split whites' head in half

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Kristen, I think you just split whites' head in half

 

[kwhites634]

Alas, the "invisible" button doesn't work in real life....

You mean this isn't real life? NOW you tell me!

 

[BantyChooks]

You mean this isn't real life? NOW  you tell me!

Yeah; there's an annoying thing called reality that calls me away from BYC every day....