tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post3979679509862028883..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Heroines on HeroinM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-26267010720711634282010-09-11T22:48:17.173+01:002010-09-11T22:48:17.173+01:00"It means that they're going to give you ..."It means that they're going to give you dangerous doses because you're probably going to die anyway."<br /><br />And here I thought they were just doing a pleasant reading of Pope's Iliad...thechildershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16522630649200476001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-11447356737747864372010-09-06T15:49:47.662+01:002010-09-06T15:49:47.662+01:00I went a-hunting Sir Urqhart, and it is my humble ...I went a-hunting Sir Urqhart, and it is my humble (well... let's just go with that for now) opinion that he made those words up. He does seem to have had a knack for it; I quite like vinomadefied, and penitissim, and disobstetricate, and also the several blogs I found while googling said words. Sir Urqhart provides shibboleths aplenty for hunting out abstruse bloggers. His particular gift appears to be ending up in the OED: did he know somebody, or were they just fellow word geeks, recognising a soul-mate across the centuries?<br /><br />Speaking of which, I think logofascinated is one of the most useful - although vinomadefied is up there. Apparently the Admirable Crichton (a Mary-Sue if ever I saw one) was so good at public speaking (along with everything else, of course) that one female listener became hysterical and burst a blood vessel, and another (too refined to become hysterical) fainted and appeared dead. <br /><br />Perhaps we could use it as a rating method for posts: logofascination factor - hysterics? fainted? burst blood vessel? aneurysm?The Antipodean, who'd always thought mellifluent was to do with sound but has learnt it is to do with honey,noreply@blogger.com