writing challenge task two, dictionary entry, Clamydàtus, noun

in #writing7 years ago

The writing challenge glom-on

I came across this writing challenge too late to join, and so I glommed on in the comments stream.

The organiser was kind enough to come and see my entry, and encourage me to join next time.
I have told him that I indeed have that plan, and I do!

But I am going to continue to glomm on here too, even as I get further behind the rest of the group. Unless I get a 'cease and desist' comment, which I hope isn't neccessary.
Anyway, I will just make my posts and those who wish to ignore me can continue to do so.
Also I hope to catch up and work at the rhthym of the rest, but have bitten off so many big, too big to chew, chunks of this parallel universe that we are collectively hallucinating called steemit, at once, that I will almost undoubtedly fail

Here is my day 2 effort. process first

I read the challenge, and as I remember it it is something like
(let me just say, I reread right now, and see that I should have done three words, but as I did do a few variations of the main word, I am going to call it a draw)

  • go to your 'home library' (lol, I can't help myself. That's so fuckin' cute)
  • grab the biggest juiciest dictionary you have
  • choose a word you don't know, and write something or other. This is where my memory is letting me down
  • or invent a word (wtf) and define it, write its definition.

I will link when I connect. (writing this isolated from the internet)

I decided to head to the home library and see what happens.

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I discovered a fuckin' mess. Not safe for OCD sufferers

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looking for dictionaries...

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there's two Spanish-English ones, on each side of MJ

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there's another one

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but its a Latin to Spanish one, lol

hmmm...

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so many learnings left unlearned

now hang on, what's that?

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Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary...

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that's too much work, there in the second row.

looks like it's the Latin dictionary for me.

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I decide to turn to page seventy seven and take the seventh word.

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what a dusty mess!!

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hmm, page 77

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seventh word Chlamydàtus (should be a little line not accent, but have new keyboard and no can do. could look for how, but lets just give a little shall we?)

Chlamydàtus (noun)

  1. the unpleasant interval between clicking the confirm transfer button, after triple checking everything twice over, and seeing the first pending notification in your bitcoin wallet

"The chlamydàtus was almost reaching his feet, when the first confirm came through"

  1. The time between joining the discord chat rooms, and being accepted as one of the gang

"Her chlamydàtus increased steadily through the afternoon, as more and more people came and went, greeting each other as old friends"

  1. also can be used in a general sense for the feeling of lost that accompanies one at all times in steemit.

"my chlamydàtus knows no bounds"

Derivitives;

Chlamydàctile (adjective) of, or causing Chlamydàtus.

"I had the most chlamydàctile afternoon, you wouldn't believe it!"

Chlamydàct (verb) to cause others to suffer from Chlamydàtus

The sign said "long-haired freaky people need not chlamydàct"

Chlamydàctely (adverb)

"You're too pretty" he said chlamydàctely.


aww, that''ll do.

I hope I entertained you for a minute or three.

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i worked at a care facility one winter... After the patients went to bed and the paperwork was done, we were allowed to read books.. i brought a dictionary and left it there with a notebook... Every evening i would read the dictionary, and when i came to a word i was unfamiliar with i would write it down along with the definition in the notebook... when i got to the end of the Dicitionary, i just read the notebook... It really helped improve my vocabulary...

that is some serious self improvement.

think you know some words then?

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."

lol, Edmund Blackadder's line, of course, not mine.

I read the dictionary a lot too. We had the world book two volume dictionary, and it was pretty interesting really. The dictionary and the encyclopedia too. Cover to cover, all of the volumes.

We didn't have hardly any other books.

except all the Jehovah's Witnesses literature, which I also read cover to cover.

but that was and still is senseless drivel really, insulting to the intelligence.

always had beautiful illustrations of multiple races of happy people living together happily with lions and tigers and zebras and stuff.

It's worth noticing that you love making your readers part of the initial research and not only focus on the word in just one of your dictionaries.

it's fun to visit my 'home library' and it doesn't happen often enough. I had to renew my library card before they would let me in.

also, must think about firing the cleaners, they are doing a shocking job.

Bet I have some books you would enjoy reading!
Me too, I have some books I would enjoy reading too

Lots of them I read years ago, and re-bought recently, now that amazon exists.

cheers, thanks for coming by

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