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.
- Trenchant
- Phlegmatic
- Albatross
- Miasma
- 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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“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.
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!
LOL in the kitchen eh?
I also like miasma, the way it sounds.
Thanks Anastasia, Just a little traditional American humor to balance things out!
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
Cheers for sharing!
Hi Reema!
A little humor can make learning new words fun and easy. You won’t be able to forget it now!