Logophile alert (you know who you are)

[gp0560]

This is hilarious.

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/10/03/care-to-gymnologise-strange-words-and-why-we-lost-them/

[Phil_musc]

Thanks for this - loved it. I now know that I am an ultracrepidarian at heart (actually this place seem to attract them like flies sometimes!). If you don't believe me, we can gymnologize about.

 

I also think I'd like to engage in a little sprunting myself with some of our posters here ;-)

[Lookin]

Thanks for this - loved it. I now know that I am an ultracrepidarian at heart . . .

 

 

Same here, and what a relief! All these years I thought I was just full of shit.

[tyro]

A little slice of heaven for this Word Nerd. Thanks for this thread!

T

[instudiocity]

But if sprunting is the pursuit if females through the haystacks, I propose sPRICKING​ as the pursuit if young men through the haystacks.

[+ purplekow]

I really enjoyed these words and so I will try and use them on this post just to further ingrain them in my memory.

I recall a recent episode, my handsome escort and I were gymnologising, me in bed and him a few steps away carefully placing a nurdle on his toothbrush. It was clear he attends the gym regularly but as he stood there in the nude, stating his case, I found myself aroused not only by the body but also by the thoughts:

 

"The government is held hostage to a few snollygosters who continue to bilk the system and who pontificate as though they know what of they speak, whereas their speeches are ultracrepidarian and not worth the air used to expel their poorly considered words."

 

As he made his way back to the bed, he stopped to poon the nightstand. I gratefully said:

 

"Thanks for balancing that, the wobble was annoying." " Now where were we?" "Ah yes, I was the pretty young thing and you were the thickly muscled lad sprunting near the barn".

 

Then in my best falsetto I coyly cooed "You'll never find me, I am hiding over here in the haystack"

[+ purplekow]

Or perhaps a limerick. I have always been able to come up with a usually amusing limerick using any three assigned words. In this case I used four of the five, to use the fifth stretched credulity. So what do you think? Two minute time limit to do better.

Gymnologizing with you

Is a table that will not poon

Its not utilitarian

In fact it's ultracrepidarian

At least in this snollygoster's view

 

The one with all five words

 

6AM nurdle and mooning

My gymnologizing lover, is ruining

This snollygoster's day,

In his ultracrepidarian way.

His table of contents needs pooning.

[tyro]

"His table of contents needs pooning" is a classic in the making, PK!

T

[+ purplekow]

You know i kind of like this myself more than when I wrote it. Thanks for the appreciative nod.