Since "fan" already has the meaning of "fanatic," a melomaniac sounds dangerously obsessed.
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- Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Melomaniac
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5025
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:52 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: INEFFABLE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8162
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9682
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:00 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Profanity, speech origins, and brain wiring
- Replies: 25
- Views: 52781
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Ersatz
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9224
It's easier to use if you think of it as a sort of brand name, notorious for making cheap or useless goods. Margarine is ersatz butter. Tofurky is ersatz turkey. Sugar substitute is ersatz sugar. Chicory was used to make ersatz coffee. Ersatz Coffee Makes Coffee-Makers Explode Of course, it can be u...
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:46 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mascara
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6276
A buffoon can be a type of clown and most clowns (or jesters) use some kind of make-up (or mask). I think that is probably the connection.
Semantic drift
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Semantic drift
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- Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:32 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Hidey.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 37624
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:59 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: here's one I can do finally! I got 17
- Replies: 15
- Views: 40047
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:06 pm
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: TH substitution: S or T?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 154304
- Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: desuetude
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7648
desuetude
n. disuse; obsolescence
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- Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:55 am
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Hello,hello,hello!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 54476
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:38 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Scripophily
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10265
For those interested in Scripophily, I found this site: HUGO VAN DER MOLEN'S Scripophily site scripomaniac I am not a linguist,but a psychologist. So, with some authority, I can say that a person, who's activities in the hobby of scripophily have become so intense that this becomes detrimental to hi...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:26 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 130063
* There is much to admire in those who refuse on principle ever to take up arms under any conditions. But that does not make pure pacifism, like no-torture absolutism, any less a form of moral foolishness, tinged with moral vanity. Not reprehensible, only deeply reproachable and supremely impractica...
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:24 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Pelagic
- Replies: 51
- Views: 79386
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:19 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Another new phpBB Version
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17438