My answer: For me, this is an incredibly hard question. Favorite word for what? For yelling? For spelling? For describing? For implementing? For what? Overall? How can that be possible? How can someone have a favorite word. There are so many words like to use and to say. I have a label for my Window Words--words that feel terrific dancing on the tongue, for some words' value is in the joy of spouting. But for a single favorite word, like many people, I go through phases. My favorite word three years ago isn't my favorite word today. My current favorite word is not a good word. It's a bad word. A swear word. Sh*t. Seriously. That's my current favorite word. Why? Could be the time of the month, but could also be that the vehemence with which that word can shoot from the mouth is unparalleled. It has many applications. It's a single syllable that satisfies a need to express and to swear.
While I'm here, let's address my cursing.
I swear.
It annoys my husband. It disappoints my parents. But I enjoy it. I'm pretty good at keeping my swearing to a minimum on this here blog, but in my day-to-day (that doesn't have to do with work), I have been known to frequently employ obscenities. Why? Well, quite simply, because I can.
Parents and moral leaders like to say that swearing is just a sign of a poor vocabulary. Maybe for some, but not for me. I have a more than decent vocabulary and frequently toss out polysyllabic eyebrow-raisers. The swearing isn't because I can't think of anything else to say; it's 'cause I like it.
The Husband says that cursing makes me look trashy. And should that be the case, I kind of like that. Sometimes it feels good not to give a damn. I spend so much of my time caring. Caring about what I look like, what people think, if everyone is happy, if I have taken care of my obligations, if I sound erudite enough at work, if I am staving off intellectual atrophy, and on ad nauseam. The casual sloppiness of a curse word and the converse art of a well-placed one allow me moments of crassness in a life often too well-tended.
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I swear. I try to stop, but it doesn't work. Excitiment makes me say my favorite swear. Which is a questionable swear anyways!
My favorite word????
nevertheless.
Just don't do it around me, you heathen.
There are too many for one to be the favorite - it just depends on the situation. Like just now: heathen. I like the way it rolls off the tongue.
I think I have a new favorite word every few weeks, etc. Like suddenly I hear myself saying this one word over and over and over like in Grey's Anatomy when every four minutes or so someone would say "Seriously" for like an entire season. But of course now that you mention it nothing comes to mind, so I'll just make something up: crack-alackin'. That's my word of the moment. Just cause.
sometimes a strategically placed swear is better than any polysyllabic word one can come up with.
now your mom thinks i'm a bad example.
oh, and i don't have a favorite word. i'm not a person of "favorites", because i like to have a bit more flexibility. although, lately i have said "seriously" a lot. too many grey's anatomy re-runs?
Damn. It's a chameleon of a word.
I've used the word "amorphous" twice this week already. Now, whether I've used it correctly...
Cussing just feels good, darn it.
Usually any word that provokes some sort of reaction out of the person I am communicating with. All depends on the circumstance like you said. For the most part I like to rustle feathers. My favorite word is made up by me and it is actually a phrase but I don't care: Awesomely Saucilicious.
I enjoy using the word "hinky". Although Webster's doesn't recognize it as a word. So I give Webster's the finger!
My favorite curse word is "Bast*%d". It is a very satisfying word.
I'm confused...
you said this:
Bathroom business is something all should be ashamed of, no matter its commonality.
yet your favorite word is what?
very interesting.
Yep. I just called you out.
But.
I'm a wimp.
Please don't hurt me.
The Flanfam sure does pay attention! Good one.
Incidentally, my favorite word is incidentally. It works everywhere, sounds good and serves as a hedge. Or a bridge. Or a transition. Can even stand alone.
Incidentally.
Flimflam (not a typo), you're right: a contradiction. But I'm also a vegetarian who happily wears leather. The preferred curse word and my fashion sense are just two among so many coexisting contradictions.
A shame, but also a human.
My life is full of contradictions.
Embrace it. That is what I have to tell myself.
Flimflam? Should I embrace that?
Hear, hear on the cursing habit! Life is rife with circumstances that dictate a salty word arsenal. Sometimes a colorful response is the only response.
As for likable words, I have an affinity for "splendid". It rolls off the tongue so nicely.
I like "brilliant" as the Brits use so profusely to describe anything seriously so awesome...and putting a cursory curse word in front of it makes for dazzling definitive diction. The worse the curse the better. As in, your blog is F-ing brilliant!!!
I swear too. Alot.
I also love "tomfoolery" used to describe the shenanigans my chillen get up to at the most inconvenient of times (interchangable with "hullabaloo").
And I enjoy good old fashioned "motoring", the road trip phraseology of yesteryear, to just about anywhere, but not with alot of tomfoolery or hullabaloo coming from the back seat.
Bit**. Sorry. It's too funny. I love to call dudes that.
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