New favourite word..
Oxymoron..
It's been a while since I threw in a "Word of the day" - probably shouldn't even call it that, when it's more like "Word of the 'whenever-I-sporadically-feel-like-it'" - so I thought it was about time I gave you another one.
This time, the word is Oxymoron. I'm not going to explain what an oxymoron is, the link to Wikipedia and this one to Wiktionary can do that for you, but I will give some examples:
silent scream
pretty ugly
upside down
cold hotdog
a little pregnant
honest liar
freezer burn
I think you get the picture. You can find more oxymorons - and LoL - @ oxymoronlist.com
Bugger off..
..is not something I wish for you to do, dear reader, but it is my Phrase of the Day.
Just 'cause it's such a great one - and useful.
Now I'm going to bugger off to sleep, or try at least.
Pleonasm..
They're everywhere, we all have our tussles with them from time to time (some of us too frequently)..
Hence, Pleonasm is my word of the day. (an explanation in Swedish can be found here)
What had me think of it?
@stephenfry Pleonasms have taken over Planet Twitter. They arrived in redundantly repetitive tautology craft.
about 9 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
The lovely Mr Stephen Fry of course.
Words..
I love them - small words, big words, short ones, long ones, complicated, simple, good, bad, rare, common..
However, my life took quite a different course than I'd thought when I was younger and I no longer have much use for extravagant language, rendering me less expressive than in my adolescence. With the lack of need, I've forgotten a lot of great words and phrases and seldom absorb the ones I encounter and may want to remember. Other than my interest, I'll therefore be posting little words I come across, and that are to my fancy, here on the blog.
The above written goes for both English, which is neither my mouther tongue nor my everyday language, and Swedish.
A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).
Typically, a word will consist of a root or stem, and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound. A word combined with an already existing word or part of a word form a portmanteau.
Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.
~ Wikipedia/Word
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