Hi.
I'm Back.
Or at least going to try to be. I've been dealing with a few extra health issues and I'm actually really busy lately, which is weird. Hopefully I'll be able to do this again and keep at it, but I'm trying to be nice to me so it's still ok if I don't.
To that end, today is National Dictionary Day, so I want to share a site that I kinda love for trying to find really old and, by today's standards, ridiculous words.
Phrontistery is a website with a lot of weird and old words that have been found by a linguistic anthropologist, which makes me like them a bit automatically. They have a lot of interesting things that you might like, if you want a laugh. (These are actually my comments on their words.)
Examples:
Flosculation; an embellishment or ornament in speech. (Do you think this has something in common with floccinaucinihilipilification, which is the action of estimating something as worthless? They start similarly and have common points in their meanings.)
Gelicide; A frost. (This makes sense in a lot of ways because it's the death of plants by ice, so frost, gelu, and '-icide')
Icasm; Figurative Expression. (This might be part of the root for Sarcasm.)
Mowburnt: Crops killed by heat. Sunburnt crops.
So...I might like linguistics. I don't know if I ever admitted it, but I do. I like how languages or cultures have crossover or similarities even if we don't think they would, like some of the mythical creatures around the world being similar or how most languages have similar words for Mother starting with M because that's what the babies babble first. I like learning how things change over time or how they change. One of my favorite examples is actually Gay, which went from meaning happy to homosexual males, and now they happily own the word to describe themselves.
Either way, I hope you have fun and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow to tell you about something else. Thanks for reading.
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