Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agoWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?message-squaremessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up1302arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1298arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square261fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-214 hours agoI’ve got six of them: Tittynope: “A small amount left over; a modicum.” Cacography: “bad handwriting or spelling.” Epeolatry: “the worship of words.” Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.” Oikophilia: “love of home” Tenebrous: “dark; shadowy or obscure”
minus-squareLemmyRefugee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours ago‘Tenebroso’ is commonly used in Spanish, at least in Spain. This whole thread is very interesting.
minus-squareJojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agoFeel like tenebrous being on a list of obscure words is tenuous, but maybe I just have esoteric interests.
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoUnlike many of these I’d heard it before but didn’t know its true meaning. It fits.
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 hours agoThat list is going to send me down a rabbit hole looking for the etymology of words
minus-squareBirch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours ago“Pardon my cacography” sure has a better ring to it than, “can you read this?”
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·14 hours agoOh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.
I’ve got six of them:
‘Tenebroso’ is commonly used in Spanish, at least in Spain. This whole thread is very interesting.
Feel like tenebrous being on a list of obscure words is tenuous, but maybe I just have esoteric interests.
Darth Tenebrous
Unlike many of these I’d heard it before but didn’t know its true meaning. It fits.
That list is going to send me down a rabbit hole looking for the etymology of words
I’m a master in Cacography!
“Pardon my cacography” sure has a better ring to it than, “can you read this?”
Oh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.