rephetibel (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rephetibel) wrote,@ 2009-07-02 12:19:00 |
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From Ross TenEyck's live journal
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" (Or, really, any way you like.) I'll give you five randomly-generated words, and you post them in your LJ and do whatever you feel like with them.
Here are the words Ross gave to me.
springtail
immutable
secede
oracular
solder
Good grief! I'll give it a shot without looking the word up first. Why didn't I get words like gingham and fire and catkin?)
Springtail. I think it's a little insect or bug. Sort of like an earwig. (Springtail - Any of various small wingless insects of the order Collembola, having abdominal appendages that act as springs to catapult them through the air.)
Immutable. Unchangeable. (Immutable - not susceptible to change.)
Secede. To withdraw from. (Secede - to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association or alliance.)
Oracular. The ability to give speeches? (Oracular - Of or pertaining to an oracle.) *Headdesk* Of course!
Solder. It's a verb or a noun. The noun is the roll of stuff that is like soft fat wire - I don't know what it's made of - that you hold the end of against two metal things you want to seal together. The verb is when you melt the end of the solder with the hot tip of a soldering iron and it runs into the join. (Solder - n. Any of various fusible alloys used to join metallic parts when applied in the melted state to the solid metal.)
I have no particular emotional response to three of the words. Springtail and solder are the two that awoke a reaction. I was a happier person before I knew that there is a family of insects capable of catapulting themselves through the air. Now I'll jump any time I hear a tiny cry of "bonsai!" I've never soldered anything but it always kind of looked like fun. Welding looks like a whole bunch of fun. (Back when I was a teenager, my parents were friends with a couple who had two teenage boys. It was the policy of the school they attended that either parent could - once - take a test for their child and their test results would count. One of the boys asked his mother to take his welding final. She did and he got an A.)
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" (Or, really, any way you like.) I'll give you five randomly-generated words, and you post them in your LJ and do whatever you feel like with them.
Here are the words Ross gave to me.
springtail
immutable
secede
oracular
solder
Good grief! I'll give it a shot without looking the word up first. Why didn't I get words like gingham and fire and catkin?)
Springtail. I think it's a little insect or bug. Sort of like an earwig. (Springtail - Any of various small wingless insects of the order Collembola, having abdominal appendages that act as springs to catapult them through the air.)
Immutable. Unchangeable. (Immutable - not susceptible to change.)
Secede. To withdraw from. (Secede - to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association or alliance.)
Oracular. The ability to give speeches? (Oracular - Of or pertaining to an oracle.) *Headdesk* Of course!
Solder. It's a verb or a noun. The noun is the roll of stuff that is like soft fat wire - I don't know what it's made of - that you hold the end of against two metal things you want to seal together. The verb is when you melt the end of the solder with the hot tip of a soldering iron and it runs into the join. (Solder - n. Any of various fusible alloys used to join metallic parts when applied in the melted state to the solid metal.)
I have no particular emotional response to three of the words. Springtail and solder are the two that awoke a reaction. I was a happier person before I knew that there is a family of insects capable of catapulting themselves through the air. Now I'll jump any time I hear a tiny cry of "bonsai!" I've never soldered anything but it always kind of looked like fun. Welding looks like a whole bunch of fun. (Back when I was a teenager, my parents were friends with a couple who had two teenage boys. It was the policy of the school they attended that either parent could - once - take a test for their child and their test results would count. One of the boys asked his mother to take his welding final. She did and he got an A.)
