andrew.simone has looked up 0 words, created 17 lists, listed 478 words, written 111 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 18 words.
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Seconded, happy birthday man!
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I just stumbled across your page...Have a Happy Birthday!
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Actually, it was your profile that directed me to it.
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Just noticed that we both listed "Sehnsucht." Well done.
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Seriously. This may be my new 'sickness unto death.' I just cannot stop.
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I've got to say, Wordie seems almost designed with you in mind.
andrew.simone commented on the word guffaw
Well, then I am glad to hear it.
Feb 8, 2007
andrew.simone commented on the user kafkaesque
"Of course, because it's written by Franz Kafka."
Jan 19, 2007
andrew.simone commented on the word vixen
I've known a few.
Jan 9, 2007
andrew.simone commented on the word posthumously
Etymoline for posthumous gives you your answer.
Jan 6, 2007
andrew.simone commented on the word haecceity
'haec' is a latin word for 'this' (declined from 'hic').
Definitely (still) an abuse of Latin.
Dec 28, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word circumflex
This word always felt dirty to me.
Dec 19, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word yawp
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,. I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world. -Whitman
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word autograph
Depends what you mean by difficult. Textual Criticism, used for religious purposes or not, gives us a reasonable perspective on the matter.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word covenant theology
I was waiting for this word to appear. Couldn't bring myself to do it; it would have felt like talking shop.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word y'all
don't forget you'ins (sp?)
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word salamander
It was once thought that salamanders were immune to fire. I recall Augustine made mention of it in the City of God. He also said the peacock's flesh was incorruptable
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word ambergris
That was a great article.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list words-that-frighten-people
actually, yes.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list oenological
oh! good ones.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list learned-by-nerding
I knew mana before role playing games. My father was a preacher for a brief stint.
Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word wasteland
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. -T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Dec 17, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word cattywampus
Interesting, I have heard it used as a synonym to askew.
Dec 17, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word geiger counter
There is a band by that name.
Dec 16, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list poetic-words
how about oft and twa?
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word vim
...and vigor
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word abyss
The sequel to the film Abyss: the Son of Abyss.
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word anglophile
I confess I am one.
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word imagist
As in Mr. Pound?
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word caribou
I always think of the Pixies first album when I see this word.
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list words-that-sound-sexy-whether-they-relate-to-the-act-or-not
How about moist?
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list some-words
done.
Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list foods-of-wonder
definitely some terrifying foods on the list.
man do I hate scrapple.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word antimacassar
this is a fantastic word.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word set
it really is nice to know there are more people like me in the world.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word twaddle
This word always sounds dirty to me.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word tetrapyloctomy
the art of splitting a hair four ways.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word set
shoot. wikipedia, that made it easy. I was simply going to look at my OED when I got home.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word peckish
When I am feeling famished I will often say I am past the point of peckishness
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word impetus
I always think of Newton when I read this word.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word urpflanze
What does it mean?
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word jehovah
Althought this transliterated word from the Hebrew is still used, most (good) scholars prefer either Yaweh with the 'w' is pronounced as a 'v').
It is 'the name of God', or more properly what God says when Moses asks God who he is.
Dec 12, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list opposites-without-commonly-used-opposites
gormless
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word haeccicity
'haec' is a latin word for 'this' (declined from 'hic').
Definitely an abuse of Latin.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word iconoclasm
It's the 'clasm' half that bugs me.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list yiddishisms
A much better version than mine but you are missing a few: kitsch, moxie, klezmer, ersatz, schitck, and schmuck.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word uffish
Until I figure out this words meaning, it is going under Words that ain't
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word truthiness
I really loathe this word.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word nice
An insidious and dismissive word.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word anointed
it is used to describe David, king of the Israelites.
Christ literally means anointed.
Dec 11, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list useful-and-foreign
anomie?
Dec 10, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the list literary-pursuits
or vers libre?
Dec 9, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word lurker
I think StarCraft's lukers imbalanced the game.
Still, it is a solid word.
Dec 9, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word mouth breather
I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks
I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend
Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine
But he's a mouth breather
Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine
But he's a mouth breather
--Jesus Lizard "Mouth Breather"
Dec 9, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word cybrarian
Definitely going into my Words that Shouldn't be
Dec 9, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word coffee pot
there is also french press
Dec 9, 2006