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You cannot escape the charge that you have previously engaged in the amazing pastime that is IDENTIFY THE WORDIE.
You are therefore prime target material for inviting to IDENTIFY THE WORDIENIK.
The whole of the bit of Wordnik that joins in on this would be truly honoured should you participate this time round.
Easily find the right page right now because it is currently the most commented on list shown on the Community page. -
See darqueau.
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Welcome back!
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Darqueau, did you abandon us?
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...and some people say we can't be good parents.
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Darqueau, thanks for co-adopting Calenrow's list. :-)
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thanks for your comment on my page, D.
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if I could just hear your pretty voice I don't think I need to see at all *hums*
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if you can hear a piano fall, you can hear me comin down the hall.
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fee-ee-ee-ee-ww-ww-ww-kreng. I'm almost sure.
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I believe it's pianomatopoeia.
darqueau commented on the word boredom
...perhaps all sins are not causes, but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.
K.W. Peter, Infernal Devices
Jun 9, 2009
darqueau commented on the word darqueau
a spectre is haunting bohemia...
Jun 8, 2009
darqueau commented on the word immortal
the immortal thirst for beauty has always found its satisfaction...
-Charles Baudelaire
Apr 22, 2009
darqueau commented on the word ballistic
the ballistic quest for technical proficiency has always found its target...
Apr 22, 2009
darqueau commented on the word technics
Thank you Mr. Lewis Mumford
Feb 6, 2009
darqueau commented on the word banausic
I am only banausic
Feb 5, 2009
darqueau commented on the word wood-engraver
"The wood-engraver may well feel dismayed to find himself described in the dictionary as 'a maker of woodcuts; a kind of boring insect.' If he wishes to differentiate sharply between himself and the beetle, whose method is presumably far longer-established than his own, he will refuse to bore, and keep his tool resolutely near the surface."
"The Way of Wood Engraving" Dorothea Braby, Associate Member of the Society of Wood Engravers
Jan 28, 2009
darqueau commented on the user Prolagus
for a while, yes. I can not be relied upon, Prolagus.
I must admit to my infidelity...I've been spending more time on flickr.
Jan 6, 2009
darqueau commented on the word dandy
...money is indispensable to those who make a cult of their emotions; but the dandy does not aspire to money as something essential; this crude passion he leaves to vulgar mortals; he would be perfectly content with a limitless credit at the bank.
-Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life
Nov 13, 2008
darqueau commented on the word vote
pseudo-participation
Oct 29, 2008
darqueau commented on the word sidewalk
the owners of this property are pleased to allow the public a revocable license to use this private sidewalk area.
Oct 29, 2008
darqueau commented on the word printmaking
"Like learning to play ping pong backwards in a mirror with a time lapse"
-Robert Hughes
Oct 27, 2008
darqueau commented on the word hypnagogic
I insist on the fact that the drawings thus obtained lost more and more, through a series of suggestions and transmutations that offered themselves spontaneously - in the manner of that which passes for hypnagogic visions - the character of the material interrogated (the wood, for example) and took on the aspect of images of an unhoped for precision, probably of a sort which revealed the first cause of the obsession, or produced a simulacrum of that cause.
Max Ernst "On Frottage" 1936
Oct 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word fat potential
men aren't horrible... but the weather can be, sometimes.
Oct 2, 2008
darqueau commented on the word inky sod
spreads like a disease...
Oct 2, 2008
darqueau commented on the word bypass
I used the bypass switch to deactivate it...
Oct 2, 2008
darqueau commented on the word photosculpsit
Ph.Sc.
Sep 28, 2008
darqueau commented on the word printmaker
definition number two is absolutely brilliant.. and true.
Sep 28, 2008
darqueau commented on the word edifice del eve
conversion of the game of chess into an architectural edifice
Sep 25, 2008
darqueau commented on the word bossiroam
The Cow's Precious Product
Sep 25, 2008
darqueau commented on the word aboha
a bit of heavenly architecture
Sep 25, 2008
darqueau commented on the word lithography
Lithography is the only great historic graphic process of which we know the name of its inventor...
(Aloys Senefelder)
-Prints and Visual Communication by William M. Ivins. Jr.
Sep 22, 2008
darqueau commented on the word desire paths
also referred to as desire line...
Sep 21, 2008
darqueau commented on the word baader-meinhof phenomenon
it could happen to you...
Sep 17, 2008
darqueau commented on the word maculature
ghost print
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word hectography
an obsolete method of duplication used in offices before the invention of the photocopier.
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word chalcography
There are three national chalcographies in the world, all of which maintain large stocks of engraved plates from which impressions are printed as ordered by the public. The first was founded by Clement XII in Rome in 1738... The Madrid chalcography followed in 1789, and owns most of Goya's plates. The one in Paris was founded in 1797... The italian and French establishments have habitually identified their productions with blind-stamps.
-Prints and Printmaking, Antony Griffiths
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word culs de lampe
The french term used for the small decorative tail-piece printed at the end of each chapter in an illustrated book. Often wood-engraved or etched. The corresponding designs at the beginnings of chapters are called vignettes.
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word maniere criblée
"dotted manner"
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word xylography
another term for woodcut
Sep 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word sayanpeau
it's Rizzolian.
Aug 21, 2008
darqueau commented on the list achilles-g-rizzoli
Projected Major Unit No 35 in the Y.T.T.E.
The Shaft of Ascension
in which euthanasia is available to those desiring and meriting a pleasant, painless bon voyage from this land.
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word ponies
amateur poets
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word eagerray
spring
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word nevermine
summer
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word roomiroll
autumn
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the word tootlewoo
winter
Aug 20, 2008
darqueau commented on the list words-sung-by-belle-and-sebastian
a spectre is haunting this list
Aug 19, 2008
darqueau commented on the list words-sung-by-belle-and-sebastian
bourgeoisie has been listed twice.
Aug 19, 2008
darqueau commented on the word inspector of weights and measures
performs a variety of inspection, testing, investigative and law enforcement duties... for the purpose of regulating for the protection of consumers, the accuracy of all types of measuring devices used in commercial trade transactions, and of all types of commodities sold in the state by units of weight, volume and other measures.
Aug 13, 2008
darqueau commented on the word football
When will you realize it doesn't pay
to be smarter than teachers, smarter than most boys
so shut your mouth, start kicking the football
bang on the teeth, you are off for a week, boy
Lord Anthony
Aug 13, 2008
darqueau commented on the word anarres
Shevek!
One of my favorite books as well.
Aug 8, 2008
darqueau commented on the word anarres
the anarchist planet, Anarres.
(really, it's just a moon... see feckless)
Aug 8, 2008
darqueau commented on the word cornflake
I was choking on a cornflake
you said have some toast instead...
-stay loose, B&S
Aug 6, 2008
darqueau commented on the user Prolagus
Looks like we have become the proud adopters of an orphaned list... (and people say I'm irresponsible)
Aug 5, 2008
darqueau commented on the word terry underwear
you only did it so that
you could wear you're terry underwear
and feel the city air run past your body
-stars of track and field
Aug 5, 2008
darqueau commented on the list belistful
besmeared
Aug 5, 2008
darqueau commented on the list printmaking-terms
With the woodcut graphic art became mechanically reproducible for the first time...
...During the Middle Ages engraving and etching were added to the woodcut;
at the beginning of the nineteenth century lithography made its appearance.
With lithography the technique of reproduction reached an essentially new stage...lithography enabled graphic art to illustrate everyday life, and it began
to keep pace with printing. But only a few decades after its invention, lithography was surpassed by photography...
...just as lithography virtually implied the illustrated newspaper, so did photography foreshadow the sound film.
-Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Aug 4, 2008
darqueau commented on the word administration
...(see dictation)...but my strength is in adminstration."
Aug 4, 2008
darqueau commented on the word dictation
"she gave me some dictation...(see administration)...
Aug 4, 2008