Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Three words I overuse, especially in exclamatory sentences

twaddle
shamble
skulk

7 comments:

  1. For me:

    fantastic

    How do I know?

    My students parodied me to my face.

    Me: "You're really going to love To the Lighthouse."
    Them: "Why? It is fantastic?"

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  2. For me:

    all that jazz [as a substitute for "etc. etc."]

    profound

    fabulous

    to make a long story short [which it never never is, not coming from me]

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  3. can we have an example of how one might use "skulk" in an exclamatory sentence?

    "Stop skulking!"
    "I'm so skulking sick of Edelman!"

    ?

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  4. Anonymous7:26 PM

    Please, please stop with TWADDLE already!!!

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  5. Anonymous7:53 PM

    Don't make me stop this car and TWADDLE you!

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  6. ip daily: now that is twaddle indeed.

    Liza: I used "skulk" last week in the following sentence, after a computer was stolen from an empty office. I speaking to the Office Manager: "Get yourself a large magnifying glass and start skulking around!"

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  7. hieronymous: do you have a lisp?

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