Sunday, March 19, 2006

Cool words: avuncular, bloviate, truthiness

I came across some cool words today while reading some amazon reviews:

"All this is done in a very avuncular style and I must admit I enjoyed reading the book, and trying out some of the examples/topics on my PC."

"Pages of windy bloviation about how XML doesn't understand tables but but precious little on how to use CSS."

I've started a list of cool words (not much in there yet--just the three I'd mentioned). If you find any similarly interesting and choice words, please add them to the list!
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/19/2006 6:43 p.m.

    Of course you know who invented the word 'truthiness' don't you? (Steven Colbert!)

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  2. Anonymous3/19/2006 6:48 p.m.

    Oh and Jon, you should update the context from 'wishes' to 'words' - when you have a free minute :-)

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  3. Jonathan3/21/2006 12:50 a.m.

    Hi Paul - Really, Mr. Colbert hey? Interesting, interesting.

    And, yup!

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  4. Anonymous4/06/2006 4:25 p.m.

    Avuncular is a great word, almost onmatopoeic!.Casaubon

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  5. Jonathan4/13/2006 12:55 a.m.

    Hi anonymous - heh, and there's another fabulous word in your post!

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