The other day I posted that I needed to connect to a few more twitter platforms. I like, but don’t need, the app by which my plants can remind me to water them. I just have to take one look at their drooping leaves. This is not rocket science!!
No, the connection that I really want is Artwiculate. This program sends you a word a day and you have to use it in your 140 characters or less, then tweet the composition. The most retweeted one wins, or something like that! I use a few “word-a-day” sites, mainly for blog ideas. In most cases, I know and have used the word that I am given, such as today’s word from Wordoftheday.com, doleful, yesterday’s was bromide and the day before, labyrinth – one of my favourites.
Well this is not the case with Artwiculate. Today’s word is incommensurable – unable to be measured, irrational. I have never used this word before. In fact here are some of the words offered recently by Artwiculate. How many have you used lately 🙂
1. Simian – relating to, resembling or affecting apes or monkeys. Hmmm, does that mean us? My tweet: His lips curled back, when he laughed. It was another of his simian traits.
2. Gainsay – speak against or oppose someone. I have seen this one before, but never really understood its meaning and I am not really comfortable using it in a sentence. Maybe some words are just like that.
3. Animus – hostility or ill-feeling. I prefer using animosity. However, if you needed to make something rhyme, this would be a good choice. It rhymes with thus, plus, us etc.
4. Cerebrate – use the mind. Good when you want to show someone that you are really, really thinking. We like to celebrate when he cerebrates!!
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5. Macaronic – this could be easily confused with macaroni, marconi, moronic and a host of others. It actually means mixing two languages together. For example, combining French and English in a sentence or Latin and English. As in: Carpe the day, n’est pas, ciao …..Oh, and Italian 🙂
6. Arcanum – a deep secret, a mystery. With the word “crypt”, we entered the arcanum of his mind.
7. Frigorific – chilling. It must come from the latin, fridge. 🙂
8. Reboant – resounding or reverberating. The orator’s reboant words, echoed through the hall.
9. Renitent – recalcitrant. I always find it amusing when someone either answers a question, with a question or defines a word, with another that also needs defining 🙂 The definition of both is – resistant to pressure.
10. Transpicuous – clearly seen through or understood. I think that I prefer transparent, but I can see how the word could be used to enhance a feeling of mystery.
The picture? An art installation at Nuit Blanche sponsored by the MacGregor sock company. It’s meaning was not immediately transpicuous 🙂
Have a clearly wonderful day!!