Vocabulary

[thrihyrne]

I'm now beginning to get entrenched in "At Swim, Two Boys." My problem is that I can already see that it's going to be tragic (and have fought off the urge to do research in advance of the Easter Day uprising because I really *don't* want to know yet what happens) and it's tainting what I can also tell is going to be some wonderful storytelling. I'm just now getting into the brogue, and thanks to this book and a story I'm reviewing for HASA, I've learned two new words:

1- turbid: heavy with smoke or mist; muddy

that's a pretty cool one. I'm hanging on to it. I had thought perhaps it was misspelled which was why I looked it up, and I'm glad I did.

2- vilipend: to hold or treat as of little worth or account; disparage

Another excellent word to add to the vocab. I'll say this for well-written fanfiction, or fiction in general: it has certainly helped me in adding new adjectives to my not insignificant trove. A word I had never run across until Tolkien fandom was "copse." A lovely word. But now I've come across tabula rasa in some HP fandom and it's not in my dictionary under "Foreign Phrases," which includes Latin. I see a google search in my future. After I go for my run.

Oh, and llembas, I was wrong about the song I was listening to last night. It was track 8, the "Twelve" song by Seven Nations. I'm going to have to do some looking into them. I love that song.

Comments

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Seven Nations. Have you heard their version of "under the milky way?"

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't! I hadn't heard of them at all until Jen sent me the CD. I love that one song. Is what you're referring to a cover of... argh! Australian band! Their version of "Under the Milky Way"?

[jensa.livejournal.com]

I was going to post and say 'is this a cover of the song by Oz band The Church?' but didn't at the time...(obviously). :)