Five Words Meme
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magie_05 lured me into the Five Words meme: Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. (Please note: If you simply wish to comment on something I've said but don't want to participate in the meme, that is fine. I will only give you five words if you specifically comment with 'Words!')The five words she gave me are: words, intellectual, 'Overboard,' gayness, and trust.
WORDS are such marvelous things. I adore them. "Read the dictionary for fun" adore them.
bironic gave me the book The Secret Life of Words, but I haven't quite finished it because I don't give a damn about the author's narrative; I just want to know cool facts about words. (This is not a criticism of the book, merely my personal quirk.)INTELLECTUAL. I have clearly been infected by today's pop-culture terror of "elitism," because my immediate reaction to having this word associated with me was defensiveness.
But then I chilled out and visited my good friend dictionary.com and was comforted by this definition of the word: "A person who engages in academic study or critical evaluation of ideas and issues."* COOL BEANS! I'll take that.
'OVERBOARD' is the most snuggly movie of all time. Funny, warm, silly, touching. And Gregory House can't hold a candle to Joanna Stayton when it comes to disdainful sarcasm.
GAYNESS (in the sense of happiness, hotness, AND civil rights) has been important to my life for a very long time. I can't possibly sum up what it means to me, except to say that it's all positive. Homophobia, in addition to being hurtful and terrible, is utterly and completely stupid, without any merit of reason whatsoever.
TRUST. Being trustworthy is far more important to me than being likable. I'd prefer to be both, but it hurts far more to lose your trust in me than to lose friendliness.
*intellectual. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intellectual (accessed: June 29, 2009).
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Date: 2009-06-29 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 08:52 pm (UTC)Faithful
Fun
Rainbow
Dickbutt
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Date: 2009-06-29 08:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 08:56 pm (UTC)*I squashed those into one word, to distinguish the happy, healthy pride of self that I see in you from the haughty, destructive pride that some people have. ♥
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Date: 2009-06-29 09:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 08:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 10:24 pm (UTC)Linguistics
Travel
Hiatus
Observation
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Date: 2009-06-29 08:48 pm (UTC)♥♥♥ I love your answers, as predicted :)
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:26 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2009-06-29 09:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 10:40 pm (UTC)Cooking
Weightlifting
Superpowers
AU
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Date: 2009-06-29 09:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 10:42 pm (UTC)Growth
Motorcycle
Canada
Extraversion
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:26 pm (UTC)And I must say say that magie_05 picked an awesome set of words for you! <3
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:50 pm (UTC)Smart
Hothead
Sweater-vest
Nominative
Fun
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-29 10:51 pm (UTC)Joy
Library
Domesticity
England
♥
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:30 pm (UTC)WDS PLZ
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Date: 2009-06-29 10:53 pm (UTC)CAPSLOCK
Travel
Friends
Food
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Date: 2009-06-29 11:39 pm (UTC)i am interested to hear your (and mr. laundry's) take on disney family planning (http://phinnia.livejournal.com/2082873.html) (because i know you and mr. laundry are distantly related to me and chris and you know how insidious the disney corporation is with putting images on everything). extra points for new product placement ideas.
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Date: 2009-06-30 02:47 pm (UTC)Oh, the wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, bouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun
(But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one)
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Date: 2009-06-30 12:37 am (UTC)You had me worried for a second when I saw Overboard the movie. I've never seen that version, but I have seen the very bad one with Goldie Han and Kurt Russel. :)
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Date: 2009-06-30 02:50 pm (UTC)Your words are:
Invention
Horace
OFC
Drabble-linkage
Humor
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Date: 2009-06-30 03:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-30 08:02 am (UTC)I don't want words (I don't do memes, except fic ones occasionally) but I am enjoying reading yours & everyone else's doing this one right now <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2009-06-30 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-30 11:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-30 02:56 pm (UTC)Critiquing
Garden
Valance (hee!)
Jovial/Merry
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Date: 2009-06-30 12:09 pm (UTC)And I LOVE the movie Overboard.
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Date: 2009-06-30 03:00 pm (UTC)Your words:
Cuddy
Woman
Parenting
Leadership
Role-play
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Date: 2009-06-30 06:15 pm (UTC)WORDS!!
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Date: 2009-06-30 11:42 pm (UTC)House
Roommate
Asperger's
Music
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Date: 2009-07-01 04:28 am (UTC)Until recently the thing I disliked the most about the Interweb was that online dictionaries made it so easy to look up words that I never read the dictionary any more. It was too much work -- pulling out the book, finding my glasses (or a magnifying glass). But I missed opening it up to find a word and getting sidetracked by another which made me look up a third one...
But I recently realized that dictionary.com lists nearby words on the side so now I love the web again.
Words.
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Date: 2009-07-01 05:49 am (UTC)