fbharjo has looked up 33779 words, created 486 lists, listed 37390 words, written 5434 comments, added 97 tags, and loved 151 words.
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I haven't read Crazy Brave yet--but I'll be borrowing a copy soon. Have you heard her perform? I love that she had a band called Poetic Justice.
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Did you know that Joy Harjo plays saxophone? Apparently her grandmother did, too.
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Thanks for helping me with my furrows.
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I am a new user and it took me a while to find this box where I can reply to your comment.
I do upload a lot of words but the quoted number is a mistake. I did upload a huge file with over 25000 terms but as it didn't work out well (the file uploaded but remained uneditable and undeleteable) I had to ask Erin to delete it for me. The deletion did not reflect in the count, though. I have the impression that Wordnik is a great idea but there are too many bugs and inconveniences here still. The coding team is either too small or not competent enough. E.g. Why can't I reply to your comments directly? Why did I have to search for hours for this very commetn box?
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First palindromic phrase I've seen using google. :o)
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You seem to have mentioned New Mexico several times recently. Do you live there?
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Thanks for adding mackerel-breeze. I liked it so much that I started a mackerel list.
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Thank you for your help--specifically with the specifically list, but also in general.
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Thank you for your liminal words list, which I found when I looked up extranoematic for my newest poem. I promptly made off with strand, peridrome and snowbroth for the same poem.
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Thanks for listing heterodyne in with my waves--Wordplayer was looking for it over on the lost for word list, and when I went to add it to my waves list, it was already there. Cool.
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Thanks for adding to my "Zillions of Illions list!
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Oops, I thought I did. Probably forgot to hit the "go" button.
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Many thanks for your contributions to the Palynology list.
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Yesterday a friend of mine invited me to attend a lecture at the public library about changes in U.S. law after the Standing Bear trial. My friend lives in Moscow now, but she's visiting for Thanksgiving, etc. At one point the lecturer mentioned Guwisguwi (by his other name). I had one of those moments where I tried to figure out how to explain to my friend how libraries and Russia and Guwisguwi related to this site, but then I decided I'd just wait to write it out here.
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Thanks so much for your additions to my list of "greens"!
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*waves hello* Thanks for the info--I remember picking up a brochure when I was down there. It looks delightful.
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I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I know exactly which one it was. You commented on it, actually--it's on my wave list.
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Very nice--I'm honored I could be part of it.
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The word was messuage on your list 'There ought to be a law'. To fracture a famous saying by Marshall McLuhan a bit ' The medium is in the messuage." - messuage is a legal term for a dwelling and its adjacent property and buildings
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Congratulations! Do you remember which word was number 20,000?
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Revolving... that's cool. I remember that most of the rocks on Sandia Peak had seashells in them.
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Yes. Crow knows.
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I came to kairos by way of Madeleine "not Proust's involuntary memory" L'Engle. I think of it when I read (reed) about situation awareness, and I thought of it when I read (red) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
At this moment (since yesterday), a trigger for me is the word sneaked (or snuck). The first story is about sneaking out of my great aunt's house in the suburbs of Detroit early one morning for a sentimental journey downtown, the second story is about sneaking out of my best friend's aunt's house in Rio Rancho for a mapless predawn hike along a creek to catch the sunrise from warm springs near Jemez.
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I came to your profile to find a list appropriate for the word intertex, but I got distracted by "pka Cheparnee" (and Coofor, and Tiguex, and Kuaua).
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You have a soul mate.
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"fbharjo has added 219 lists containing 18,852 words, 2,378 comments, 87 tags, 134 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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Mad for hopping, eh? Glad you're having fun. :-)
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Whey cool list!
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Well, golly. It would seem that there's a list in the works with all of these Galena-inspired words.
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I keep trying to think of steak-raising cowboy puns, but nothing is coming to me....
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You keep raising the stakes!
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I love that you set up camp over on my list. Thank you!
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What delightful "bell" words! I've added the adjectives to my list of adjectival arcana.
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Hi, 'jo. I haven't forgotten the 'closed STFairies' like 'run dry run'. They do feature on the new Sweet Tooth Fairy website I'm now building. I'm calling them 'Dead End ST Fairies'.
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Thanks! I was inspired by chained_bear and hernesheir.
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I often claim that I'm like a crow - it's hard for me to walk anywhere without stopping to investigate shiny objects on the sidewalk (I used to come home with rocks and coins and bits of broken glass in my pockets).
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I hadn't remembered until I looked her up again. What an interesting family tree you have. It's funny - WWII and the rise of the Iron Curtain actually obscured half of mine (my mother's mother and aunts were as silent about certain things as the giant oak with the sister trunks (sisterly mythstories)).
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Sorry - I didn't actually mean to delete my comment about peregrine falcons and mosaic thunderbirds and aunties and oak trees....
I'll replace it with this: I've been to the small town in central Missouri where Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech. It is now the site of a church which was designed by Christopher Wren, gutted during the Blitz, and rebuilt at Westminster College as a memorial. It also has a large section of the Berlin Wall which is part of a memorial designed by Churchill's granddaughter. -
Hm. That means the writer Joy Harjo has a name which is delightfully redundant.
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Thanks! By the way, I keep meaning to ask you about Guwisguwi - is it possible that you were born in Turkeytown, Alabama, in 1790?
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You amuse me.
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Thanks for the note fbharjo. I didn't sea waterer on the list at first. Yes, I'll keep trying as -erer is one of favorite tack-ons.
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I enjoy many areas of your wordplay. Please see my profile and see if some of those areas interest you.
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I've been to Four Corners! I put one of my limbs in each of the four states at the same time and then reassembled myself, ta-daa!
Thank you for the link. I have a weakness for agate, actually for any striated or patterned stone. But I did not see any specific mention of hinges. -
Your comment from before "don't forget short closure sweet tooth fairies such as run dry run. there is a separate list of them"
I haven't forgotten 'jo. My apologies, just overlooked them at the time. I will shortly add a page to w.t-i-s-t-f.c linking to your list.
Thought I might call them 'clenched teeth fairies'.
Hah!
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Thanks for your interest in my World of Corn list!
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Kudos for your anonymous celebrity in being the source material for the Boston Globe's "The Word" today.
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Thanks for adding to my "See Rock City" List. I've made it through some western states (lots of rocks there) avoiding the biggies AL and CA. Wish some Wordnikies from there would add some to!
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Just stopping by to gush about how awesome you are. I love your wax work over on my list, but your own lists are fantastic. (Especially the one with the gimmals.) Thank you!
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thx for adding to my robot list! I moved your listing of Karel Čapek to the top info since he's not a robot.
Also, you've listed nanobot which is a general umbrella term encompassing an entire field of robotics. Unless I'm mistaken and it is actually officially a specific robot that I'm not aware of?
fbharjo commented on the word off-white
Is there an on-white?
May 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word udd
Sharp point of a knife -Swedish
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word busk
Boscar - to beat about the bushes ( Old Spanish)
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word taque
Old north French - 'nail, pin'
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cutting-tool
Always incisive!
Apr 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
Also see i-do-itude
Apr 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
It begs 'shebecomestude' ! What does that elicit?
Apr 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
Is there a relationship with etude and student?
Apr 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-to-describe-the-taste-of-food
'like chicken' makes me think of rattle-steak (rattlesnake's taste description).
Apr 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word alum
Adds a whole new meaning to alum-are-us. These
are fields to be explored.
Apr 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ultraviolet
Adds a entire new meaning to rose-colored cataracts. It is plum crazy as plumbago. Way-to-glow!
Apr 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word natalitious
ruzuzu
May we wish you a delicious, natalitious day today.
Happy Birthday to zuzu!
Apr 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pəshar
Aramaic for 'interpretation'
Apr 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nowtown
a one now town - in the style of 'a one cow town' ??
Apr 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-i-only-see-in-books-about-medieval-and-early-modern-history
The author (of this list) is a meracious auctour.
Apr 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word braid theory
not knot theory
Apr 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word gwelə-
see etymologies for belemnite, parable, hyperbole, quell, and abulia for further references to gwelə-
Apr 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word belemnite
Once thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
(New Latin belemnītēs, from Greek belemnon, dart; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)) from etymolgy above - also see etymologies for parable, hyperbole, quell, and abulia for further references to gwelə-
Apr 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu
I haven't heard her perform. I did have a chance to listen to her read some of her poems. She did them more than justice!
Apr 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu
I knew she plays the sax. Have you read 'Crazy Brave' yet?
I wonder how many people realize the etymological significance of the title.
Playing the sax is 'crazy brave' of course.
The sax is the ultimate soul instrument with its long neck and throaty sound (see nephesh)
My niece Ramona has taught me that well!
She has 'crazy brave' in her blood, too.
Apr 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word zen fin zen
fin zen
Apr 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word purl
the sound of purl-ple (see Century Dictionary definitions): A neat Heraclitean term:
Early purl grey perhaps with bergamot! (Earl Grey Tea)
Apr 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word news choice, purled and curled fact
Heraclitean flown-in delight!
Apr 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word complete, neat-pleat
It's a wrap!
Apr 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word perfect, pure-fact
just the fax (facts): nothing superfluous: black & white - no color
Apr 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word continues right where it left off
timeless friendship
Apr 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word right of passage, left of passage
rite of passage, ......?...unstaged (stage left)
Apr 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word right(rite)salem
Everyone is right (rite), but (few(er)are) no one (no-one) is core rect (correct).
What's left over (in)?
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bitcoin
It is headed (& entail (out) spinning) toward analogical (rune-in) ruin?!
Digit points but is not 'is'!
Rue(l) out is in!
a paradox- a pair of (d)ox(i)s! (plowing boustraphedrically)?
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bone oil
I guess this word finally reached a b-one-oiling point!
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word siquis
if any
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word jumelle
begin to weave
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word dræht
draw or drag
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-duke-of-albuquerque
What do the words in this list have to do with the title of this list?
Is it a draughty checkerboard of words like Alquerque?
White ((albus) and black) on!
Apr 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Noblesse oblige
'What you receive as a gift, give as a gift!'
Apr 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word eftest
From Middle English ethe ("not difficult, easy"), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe ("easy, smooth, not difficult"), from Proto-Germanic *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“deserted, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Cognate with Scots eith ("easy"), Old Saxon ōþi ("deserted, empty"), Old High German ōdi ("empty, abandoned, easy, effortless"), Middle High German öde (German öde, "blank, vacant, easy"), Old Norse auðr ("deserted, empty"), Icelandic auð ("easy"), Gothic ̸̴̰̹̿̓ (auþeis, "desolate, deserted"). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian vetëm ("alone") from vet ("his/her/their own, self"). More at easy. (Wiktionary)
Apr 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ēaþe
smooth, easy
Apr 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Civitas Solis
City of the Sun
Apr 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Bensalem
In Bacon's 'New Atlantis' somewhere west of Peru.
Apr 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nowel
now (know) well
Apr 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word witlock
wit play like sword-play see comments on wedlock
Apr 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wordieluxe
The deluxe e-diction.
a luxated word?
Apr 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Aristoxenus
author of early book on rhythm ' Elementa rhythmica'
"Writings on rhythmics. Part of book 2 of an Elementa Rhythmica survives. It argues that rhythm is a temporal structure imposed on, not inherent in, what is ‘rhythmized’ (to rhythmizomenon); and it defines rhythmic forms, by reference to a ‘primary duration’ (prōtos chronos), in terms of the ratio between arsis (anō chronos, up-beat) and thesis (katō chronos, down-beat). " - article by Andrew Barker
Apr 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word speckled rose granite bled at sunset
brindle kindled
Apr 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-for-ice
OR How about a tinseled timbitpick(stick)?
An alliteration prize?
Apr 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word livver
I guess that won't happen in this 'liffe'?
It's a v vreck v vaiting to happen!
Apr 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word oen
Irish 'one'
Apr 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word souna
Also soune conciliatory ending, forgiveness, 'make peace'
Mar 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ullus
Latin for 'any'
Mar 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ynce
Old English inch
Mar 30, 2013