HELLO!

Do you hear me? Do you understand me? Am I communicating my ideas in an elucidating manner? If you find a public speaker asking these questions you may find they do not comprehend the meaning of the word:

Lamprophony

This is a clarity of voice at an audible level. So a mumbling, or a heavily salivating jowled, speaker could be described as having a poor lamprophonic quality.

I see this word as one with a lot of potential to cement a place in our current vernacular, as an opportunity for its use presents its self in a quotidian fashion. For instance instead of saying 'sorry, I didn't catch that' or 'could you repeat that' you have an opening to quip 'Your lamprophony is poor could you repeat yourself' or 'You were maundering please increase your lamprophony and try again'.

So I bid you fair serendipity in keeping your communications clear and thus avoiding obfuscating matters.

Ed

A little bit of Luck

Feeling lucky? Well maybe you will stubble across this word:

Serendipity

This word has its complexity in not the obscurity of it but finding a way to bring it into your quotidian vernacular. The meaning of the word is what I feel throws most people off as it is an aptitude for good fortune or luck. Yet you can not merely substitute serendipity into any sentence containing lucky or fortuitous. However, it does work in times where someone is having luck, such as 'he had the serendipity to find a four-leafed clover'.

So serendipity is not something you can have it is some thing you are.

Thus I ask you to go forth and be your very most serendipitous selves.

Ed

Niceties

'I think you have that slightly wrong, it should be this . . .' is not a sentence you hear too often. If you have sophomania or afflatus it is likely you have never heard this, it falls into that inxplicable deaf region in all hubris natured people's hearing. However, a quiet word correcting you is a great way to learn without loss of confidence, so coaches and teachers often use:

Admonition

This is a gentle reproof, council or advice from a supportive figure. So if you are struggling with a problem even if it is as small as spelling or as big life I am sure you have someone from whom you can ask for admonition. You may even be in the happy position of being an administer of admonition yourself, but whatever your situation there are people to help.

To recognise these barers of admonition I suggest you thank your supportive figures.

Ed

Hey Beautiful

Did you know you look amasing today, why not read on and allow me to continue inveigling, as you are so smart I'm sure you will understand everything I write. I have gone through in past posts words that range from arrogance through sadness even to confusion, hopefully you clever people found them all to be epigrams.

If you have not yet fallen prey to my flattery maybe I need to be a little more obvious or possibly you already know the word:

Inveigle

This is a word to describe the act of luring or ensnaring someone through flattery or artful talk. So if you engorge your vernacular to a great enough extent then you can inveigle your way to anything you want. Whether that is poker with unlucky friends, discounts from shops or dates with pretty people.

A Slanderous word

Words that often seam most interesting are those that are either long or short and complicated. Some of these shorter words appear most exotic when they use less common constant sounds made from letters like v,z and x. Thus I give you:

Vilify

This is a word that evolved from the use of vilificare, to make cheap. As such it means to speak ill of someone or something i.e. to slander or discredit worth.

The rarity of this word in popular vernacular maybe due to it's difficulty to fit into conversation and everyday life. For instance one's tendency would be to say 'Dave bitched about Liam' as bitch, and thus all its related forms, is part of current parlance. However this again gives me opportunity to champion non-crass language in suggesting the use of vilified. As such 'Dave vilified about Liam' in some instances this would also be more accurate as 'bitched' gives an air of negativity to the person discrediting another. Where as vilify and its other forms need not encapsulate that negative connotation.

Thus I bid you go forth and vilify, there is plenty to slander.

Ed

A Sad word

If you are quick to tears and easily upset maybe you should look away now. Or maybe not as this word is for you:

Lachrymose

This is a word to mean mournful. And as hinted to above further definitions are that of 'to course tears' or 'to shed tears readily'.

However if this post's substance, or lack there of, causes lachrymose in you the reader then the effect is complete.

Ed

Clarity

We can not go through life knowing everything, even if some act as if they do. Thus it is a common and conventional thing for us to encounter information in our day to day life that we have not heard before or confuses us. So this word comes to ease that:

Obfuscate

Although the word is a verb meaning to confuse it can be remembered in order to cushion that, often unwanted, realisation that indeed we are fallible. By giving you something you do know. It may also be used in a retaliatory context if some one were to intentionally bewilder you. When faced by such a situation a retort remarking on their obfuscatory information or phrase can in turn obfuscate the provocateur if he is unbeknownst to the word's existence.

I hope this post is unconfusing, unbefudling and unobfuscating.

Ed