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The Voice of Labor posted:though I am curious how you figure out the meaning of words you don't know since looking them up is lame Just in the context of this thread. Of course I look stuff up to actually understand things. But here it is better to make blind guesses, or actually flaunt some semi-obscure knowledge. If it was about looking up dictionaries Doc Fission could do it themselves. Speaking of: Doc Fission posted:devonian Devon is a geologic period. It's known for trilobites and ammonites. So those would be devonian fossils. Alternatively Devon is a British region which gave the period its name. So you might be able to buy devonian turnips, or other things coming from that region. Artism's comment makes me think the former is more likely. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:Just in the context of this thread. Of course I look stuff up to actually understand things. This post is correct. Looking up words and/or circling them to go back is kind of a momentum-breaker that doesn't work so good for my peanut brain. OTOH it takes less than a minute for me to hop on the SA app and post in here and I think it's interesting to see what other people already have in their smart guy arsenal. Plus I think I will absorb the learning better through other people's explanations. To that end, thanks to everyone who is taking a shot at filling in the knowledge gaps here. Together we will win the Cormac McCarthy spelling bee, take home the cash prize and save the community center! Doc Fission fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Doc Fission posted:crenellated Isn’t this some sort of decoration? I think it looks like the top bits of a castle.
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artism posted:diphtheria (at one time and possibly still a common affliction among alcoholics) Sri.Theo posted:Isn’t this some sort of decoration? I think it looks like the top bits of a castle. 
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Doc Fission posted:I do a lot of effort OPs and then run out of steam quickly. This is a low-effort thread for me to showcase how many words I don't know, in particular words that have to do with canyons or guns or scalping a guy. Each word will get its own post so you too can luxuriate in my ignorance. I will also not look these words up so feel free to mansplain them to me or provide a helpful visual aid. As I read through these I am remembering the parts of the book you are at. The variety of words and shades of expressions they give is really really used well in Blood Meridian. Even better when you can understand all the words! Looking at some of these, I find myself pronouncing them one way only to remember how it was used in the book and change my sounds. Khizan posted:It's Gaelic, yes. Pronounced something like "shi LAY lee". As a note, a proper one is smoothed and shaped and polished and such, but they still definitely look like they came off of a tree. Here's a wikipedia picture of some in construction. To add to this, I'd say the shillelagh has a history of usage as "a walking stick you beat people with," usually when someone in a book is beaten senseless by a man with a shillelagh. If you are using the word shillelagh, you are really wanting to emphasize the type weapon being used and probably tying into the rather large collection (if I remember) of other encounters in books where someone experiences the other usages of an irish walking stick. Doc Fission posted:fusil I can't remember how this is used in the book but a fusilier is the name for a soldier who carries the fusil, a special lighter musket made for the select troops forming the artillery guards. Doc Fission posted:quirt If I recall, quirt is a whip but explicitly a short whip. A few feet at the most. Doc Fission posted:caparisoned Additional decorations in addition to whatever other dress. Ostentatious decorations. Depending on how the word is used, there can be great irony there. Doc Fission posted:corbel An architectural technique for reinforcing. It can be very decorative. Can you think of an arch that wasn't smooth on the inside? bedpan fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Apr 26, 2021 |
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Doc Fission posted:scurf Doc Fission posted:baldric Doc Fission posted:vinegarroons Doc Fission posted:centroids Doc Fission posted:lemniscate
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Doc Fission posted:revetment Doc Fission posted:dunnage e: It is not something about coins. It is a word that I knew at one point though
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Dunnage is basically packing peanuts for ship cargo. Cheap materials or whatnot that's used to pack more valuable items securely so they don't shift in the hold. Alternatively, it can be used to refer to miscellaneous luggage and low value cargo used to fill up a ship's capacity to avoid running partially empty. Doc Fission posted:archimandrite Doc Fission posted:priapic Doc Fission posted:revetment  If you're talking about it in a military fortification context, I think it's basically dirt or sandbags or whathave you that's piled up against a wall to help reinforce it from cannon fire and such, but I'm not sure.
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I finished the book faster than expected, because it was very good. Bold of McCarthy to take a shot at the idea that a bunch of guys hanging out under harrowing circumstances will inevitably become friends. Powerful thesis on how dudes don't rock and anyone who thinks otherwise is a baby rear end. That's all for words I don't know from Blood Meridian. If you know any of the words I've listed in this thread then you are obliged to assist. Otherwise feel free to recommend me books with more words I am not likely to know. Real words, not Harry Potter words. Words that you can sink your brain teeth into!
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Doc Fission posted:That's all for words I don't know from Blood Meridian. If you know any of the words I've listed in this thread then you are obliged to assist. Otherwise feel free to recommend me books with more words I am not likely to know. Real words, not Harry Potter words. Words that you can sink your brain teeth into! Sounds like you're ready for Gene Wolfe.
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Doc Fission posted:baldric That guy from blackadder.
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Doc Fission posted:scoria A very vesiculated (lots of air bubbles) volcanic rock. Often used crushed as inorganic mulch for garden beds. Depending on how many air bubbles it has, it can float on water. Khizan posted:
Huh, I thought a baldric was actually a type of knife. Memento fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Doc Fission posted:procrustean Procrustes was a mythological innkeeper who would violently stretch out his guests (or chop legs off the taller ones) to exactly fit a certain bed. Well, at least until Theseus disposed of him. Procrustean can be used to describe instances in which something is rigidly adapted to a framework or set of rules while mutilating the essence. One could say that an office worker who already completed all the tasks for the day, but must remain seated at their desk until eight hours expire was on a metaphorical procrustean bed.
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Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Not Know: 38 Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Know: 10203
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Foxfire_ posted:Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Not Know: 38 Is that cross referenced for duplicates?
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Foxfire_ posted:Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Not Know: 38 Aw. This made me feel pretty good 
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cant cook creole bream posted:Is that cross referenced for duplicates?
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use your blood meridian words to describe the following photographs  
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Foxfire_ posted:ebook to text -> split by whitespace -> remove punctuation -> lowercase -> count unique words that rules. you rule. op rules. mccarthy rules
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The Voice of Labor posted:use your blood meridian words to describe the following photographs do I have to use all 38
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I would be satisfied with one or two per photo
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Doc Fission posted:esker Thats a geographic feature left by a passing glacier. What sort of feature, I don't remember. I think a ridge of material pushed up by a glacier is a moraine, so not that. Maybe the depression where the stuff that got carved out used to be.
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Chines, at least in one context, refers to the edges of a boat near where the hull meets the water.
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