Comments on: Well, we have that in common & a fondness for lugubrious https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Doug https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/#comment-25182 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:01:23 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8948#comment-25182 For years I was using “bereft” not exactly incorrectly but generally out of the common connotation, but I didn’t look it up because I thought I knew its precise meaning.

The shame should not come from looking something up (to the extent that doing so holds that association–I’m not saying that’s at all an implication one should draw from your post; I’m using that as the springboard for this new topic where we presume, for the sake of argument, that we’re supposed to feel like we should just know all these words); the shame comes from not looking up words even when we think we know them.

No, I’m not sure when this became a confessional.

]]> By: UH https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/#comment-25164 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:50:44 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8948#comment-25164 I remember when you wrote about looking up “lexicographer”.

https://iwilldare.com/2010/01/12/four-wholly-unrelated-things-i-want-to-tell-you/

Good times.

]]> By: Kevin Fenton https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/#comment-25160 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:24:24 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8948#comment-25160 My horrible admission is that I last encountered “pulchritude” on a recent episode of Parenthood.

]]> By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/#comment-25156 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:05:48 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8948#comment-25156 Yes! Pulchritude gets me all the time. It’s so icky.

]]> By: Kevin Fenton https://iwilldare.com/2010/04/well-we-have-that-in-common-a-fondness-for-lugubrious/#comment-25154 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:02:44 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8948#comment-25154 Maybe the iPad or one of these other modern wonders will include a real, substantial, enhanced version of a dictionary. A memory of looked up words would be awesome. When I was at the U of M MFA program, we got free access to the OED online. That was great.

“Fulgent” is one of those words that always trips me up because, like “bucolic” and “pulchritude,” its unpleasant sound subverts its meaning.

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