The beauty of a Blog is you can make a mistake and not have snarky responses. Lately I've been feeling a bit "followed after" on my favorite forum. Yes, I suppose it was quite rude of me to mention epicaricacy in the same breath as with the plane plunging into the IRS building. But those with even the tiniest sense of humor might see how it could relate to epicaricacy. Of course it was a heinous/atrocious/vicious/hateful/evil/horrendous action that caused death and much sorrow. Of course. Not denying that.
Ah, but here it's so free. Heck, I can even say "Oy vey" and not feel guilty. I think I'd like just a free flowing Blog, too, as having a subject can make this one difficult.
One thing, though, I've wondered lately about both epicaricacy and Schadenfreude is that an adjective really is needed. They seem to be words you use to describe how people feel.
Lord Byron said, “Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” Language is indeed beautiful, and I will write about my love of words and poetry, including limericks and double dactyls. As the name of this Blog indicates, I will periodically comment on my favorite word. I hope my words will stimulate your thinking...and comments.
About Me
- Kalleh
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- There's not a lot about me, really. I am fairly mundane. I was raised on a farm in Wisconsin, but always loved the big city. I absolutely adore Chicago. We might not have that wonderful weather of California or the history of the east coast (or Europe) or beauty of mountains...but it's a fine city. While I've been in nursing education most of my adult life, a few years ago I became interested in words, language and linguistics. My husband and I started a Web site, Wordcraft (www.wordcraft.infopop.cc), and my pursuits of words and language have been uphill ever since. Love the people there, too. Oh, and I have 3 beautiful children whom I am very proud of. But let's get down to epicaricacy. Please talk to me here because I am definitely a social being! And thanks for coming!
Web sites
- American Dialect Society
- Anagram Server
- Double Dactyl
- Dr. Grammar
- Eggcorn Database
- Epicurious
- Etymology Online
- Examining the OED
- Free Rice
- German/English Words
- Grandiloquent Dictionary
- Hyperdictionary
- Jesse Sheidlower's Site
- Luciferous Logolepsy
- OEDILF
- Online Books
- Online Thesaurus
- Phrontistery
- Poetry Society of America
- Queen's English Society
- Shakespeare Online
- Silva Rhetoricae
- Take Our Word
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Tiscali Dictionary of Difficult Words
- Unusual Words
- Verbatim
- Verbivore
- William Shakespeare Elizabethan Dictionary
- Word Detective
- Wordcraft
- World Wide Words
- Worthless Word for the Day
Blogs I Find Interesting
- A Cuban in London
- Alan's Blog
- Bradshaw of the Future
- Caterwaulling
- epea pteroenta
- Fritinancy
- Glottopedia
- Is It Irony?
- jerrys-house
- Language Log
- Languagehat
- Lexiophiles
- Motivated Grammar
- Mr. Verb
- Nathan Bierma
- nurse connect
- Out of the Middens; Straight from the Heart
- The Hitting the Road Again Blues
- The Longest Words in the English Language
- The Sperical Influence
- Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey
3 comments:
"The beauty of a Blog is you can make a mistake and not have snarky responses"
Yeah. Nobody reads mine either. :( :)
The logical adjectival form of epicaricacy would be epicaracious. In German the logical adjectival form of Schadenfreude would be schadenfreudlich.
Of course I have no idea if eiher word actually exists.
Yeah, I see your point, Bob, about having no readers. It isn't all that bad, is it?
I'd never be good at posting hugely controversial material on a Blog and then receiving offensive and negative responses. I have too much of a "I want everyone to like me" characteristic - which sometimes serves me well, but other times doesn't.
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