Revellian’s Expressive linguistics 101

Here are some words you don’t hear everyday - which, if incorporated into your daily speech may make you sound like you’re trying to act like you didn’t learn it from a blog; but that you’ve always used it. Warning- don’t say it a lot. It may give away that you’re not a human thesaurus.

1. Trenchant
2. Phlegmatic
3. Albatross
4. Miasma
5. Peregrinate

Revellian’s Expressive linguistics 101:

Philology and psycho-linguistically descriptive dialectology

Here are some words you don’t hear everyday - which, if incorporated into your daily speech may make you sound like you’re trying to act like you didn’t learn it from a blog; but that you’ve always used it. Warning- don’t say it a lot. It may give away that you’re not a human thesaurus.

  1. Trenchant
  2. Phlegmatic
  3. Albatross
  4. Miasma
  5. Peregrinate
  • Trenchant- sharply perceptive, aware, very keen

example- Now Billy-Ray might not look smart, but he is unexpectedly trenchant.

  • Phlegmatic-Having a slow way about you, Being unemotional, cold.

“How can you just stand there and lie. It takes a phlegmatic witch to eat a mans last Twinkie!”

A real oddball word not used much is:

  • Albatross- A constant, worrisome burden or An obstacle to success- or one of those large birds you were thinking about.

“Honey, get in here! You may not think so, but I’m a helluva lot more trenchant than I look! I mean. . .thirty-seven pairs of shoes? I don’t see how you can act so phlegmatic about this. This has become a serious albatross for us both! Gimme those credit cards. . .”

  • Miasma- A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation, or poisonous air

“Wait, don’t go in the bathroom! It’s a miasma in there!”

I like the words sheath, shroud, encrust and slither. They are so propitious:
Splattering forth from my encrusted memories, it slithered onward as gelatinous cognitions of repressed dissociative amnesia. Ancient visions of an unknown mind unveiled to me an inherent vaporous psychoses - a misted cloud if you will - shaded in vermilion pigment and the fragrance of vanilla summer. This undulating creature hath long been sheathed within the glistening skins of my cold, wet nightmares. I have long suffocated within these tightly wrapped densities - these deceptive mirrors of my self actualization. Betwixt multitudinous layers of thickened cortex and shrouded past lives, you will find the real me. THAT’S ENOUGH. . . I know this is really weird but can be effective if used sparingly to delineate things in new, unusual ways.

Here’s another rarely used word which exhibits a unique sporadicalness:

  • Peregrinate- To journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot.

“Baby, why don’t you peregrinate your ass in the kitchen and procure me a beer?”
Actually, Lets refrain from saying that. That just might become the albatross that ended it all!

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6 Responses to “Revellian’s Expressive linguistics 101”

  1. Randy Maness on May 23rd, 2007 5:57 am

    “Baby, why don’t you peregrinate your ass in the kitchen and procure me a beer?”

    That was just great.. lol

    I have heard trenchant and albatross, yet the others are somewhat new. I should probably learn to incorporate such words into my own vocabulary.

  2. Bobby Revell on May 23rd, 2007 6:01 am

    I’m glad you liked the humour. I have a list of personally chosen words I’ve compiled over the last 10 years.
    I find I have to become really used to one before I use it in writing so it sounds natural. Thanks!

  3. Anastasia on May 23rd, 2007 1:49 pm

    LOL in the kitchen eh?

    I also like miasma, the way it sounds.

  4. Bobby Revell on May 23rd, 2007 2:01 pm

    Thanks Anastasia, Just a little traditional American humor to balance things out!

  5. Reema on May 23rd, 2007 4:56 pm

    LOL. Oh, gosh. You had me laughing here. Really informative though, learned new words today. Cracked up at the way you used the word miasma :P

    Cheers for sharing!

  6. Bobby Revell on May 23rd, 2007 4:58 pm

    Hi Reema!
    A little humor can make learning new words fun and easy. You won’t be able to forget it now!

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