What Is The Most Beautiful Word?

[leyla m.]

disco

su<span style='colorurple'>pernature</span>

 

[meowmix]

aesthetic, velocity, tidal, vivacious, passion, nostalgic, vintage, enigma, voyage, dazzling, bewitched

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Originally posted by ahhGucci+Oct 28 2004, 05:07 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ahhGucci @ Oct 28 2004, 05:07 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I wonder where you read that...

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But who was the 'famous linguist' quoted in Donnie Darko? The commentary claims it's Edgar Allen Poe but the evidence says otherwise...

Originally posted by Brian Morton+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Brian Morton)</div><div class='quotemain'>"Soprano saxophone." It’s feminine, sexy, with a great man’s name buried in it. It’s an instrument I’ve battled to master. The Alto is a doddle by comparison. Soprano Saxophone sounds as if she might be a Greco-Italian starlet in the adult movie line. [/b]

Originally posted by Janice Galloway

It’s tempting to rerun the old chestnut that the most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque in the post", but I won’t. I can single out one word that works for me every time in terms of evocation, effect and mood. It’s "liquefaction", which seems almost a phrase in itself. Never having been much of a scientist, I met the word first in the Robert Herrick poem Upon Julia’s Clothes; "When as in silks my Julia goes / Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows / That liquefaction of her clothes." And the word "liquefaction", its fluidity, the silkiness of it in the mouth, brings the whole verse into life again, in all its audacity and sexiness. The word "clothes", the big blot it makes on your tongue when you say it, is pretty damn good too. And, for less definable reasons, "koala bear". I think I should stop now.

<!--QuoteBegin-Douglas Dunn@
I tend to think in lines of verse rather than individual words and phrases. I love "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang" from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or the last line of Philip Larkin’s The Trees, "Begin afresh, afresh, afresh", or from Seamus Heaney’s The Harvest Bow "A knowable corona / A throwaway love-knot of straw".

For individual words, my list would have to include "euphonious", "melismatic" and "melodious". Place names would have to include "Inchinnan", "Auchtermuchty", "Dairsie"; "Blebo, Largo, Dunino / Into Europe seem to go. / Strangely Scottish, we may deem / Auchtermuchty, Pittenweem." [/quote]

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I like "pickled by whispers". It was what happened to Phlebas the Phoenician in the Death by Water section of TS. Eliot’s The Wasteland.
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[twilight fairy]

Prince, I have heard that it was J.R Tolkien who said that "cellar door" was the most beautiful.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Originally posted by twilight fairy@Oct 31 2004, 09:09 AM
Prince, I have heard that it was J.R Tolkien who said that "cellar door" was the most beautiful.

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Yep, in his essay about the Welsh language. However, the commentary on Donnie Darko credits Edgar Allen Poe...

 

[Envy]

Αγάπη....-------------->(Agapi) means Love in greek

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Talking of Greek...

Erotic

 

[GardaPrincipesa]

LOVE

 

[Artemis]

breath. shimmer. glaze. opalescent. sapphire. clazzone. aurora. heaven.

and of course supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
soo-per-kal-i-frah-gil-is-tic-ex-pee-al-eh-do-shush
super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docius

just had to do that

 

[tiffany]

Labyrinth
and 'droga'. It's a polish word, which I believe means parking space, or right of way, or something to do with traffic - I just think it's a cool word

 

[OCHANELO]

Je t'aime

 

[Erin]

What a unique topic.


My picks:

fabulous
delirium
sparkle

 

[Derin]

Derin
..means 'deep' in Turkish.

 

[banksy]

junkie its a world of theories

 

[pradaesk]

dolce far niente

 

[skyred]

Cute, Pretty, Beautiful & Gorgeous?

What do you think of these words? How would you denfine them? I think that today the word beautiful is way over used. For example a person may look cute to me, to another person that person maybe beautiful. I hope no on thinks this a stupid question. I was just wondering.

To me
cute, pretty is the same thing. You not beautiful, but your face has a youngish perky look to it. Some people never grow out of this look.Like Ashanti


Goregous are beyond cute or pretty, but there is something about that person, that you just want to stare at them.Like Beyonce

Beautiful to me is something that you become when you get older or have wisdom. A beautiful face is a goregous face,but with imperfections.Like Audrey Hepburn. At first I didn't really get it, because I never did like her nose, but day I looked at a picture of her and she was just Beautiful.

 

[Stylephox]

cute is a) just that, adorable in a huggable kind of way or b)someone who I don't think physically attractive, but they're charming/kind/whatever and makes them attractive ie: Sarah Jessica Parker

pretty= same as cute (b)

gorgeous = someone who is very good looking, but not in a stand out way. ie: that Aishwa Rai person

beautiful = someone who has that extra something that makes them stand out, even if they're not 'perfect'.

 

[breathe0xygen]

pretty - same as above, cute, a physical standard that is around what society judges as "good looking"

gorgeous - usually applying to physical features, clothing etc. elaborated pretti-ness, something glamorous, something out of the normal day face...

beautiful - i dont think beautiful applies only to physical appearance but also to the heart of the person. beauty is something that grows, its in everybody, but in a different place IMO...

 

[Tinuviel]

(mentioned) nightingale, twilight, dusk, ethereal, vale, wisp, crysalis, solace, lucid, halcyon, luminous, glimpse, glimmer, shimmer, glaze, opalescent, sapphire, aurora, labyrinth, sparkle


celestial, sylvan, ennui, vespertine, spark, ballerina, aquamarine, gem, princess, supernova, bijou, dryad, nymph, avatar, whimsical, poppy, velvet, resplendent, melancholy, vivacious, eternity, stellar, glitter, bohemian, visionaire, jewel, stars, mysteron, darkness, goddess, nouveau, tulle, chiffon, rainbow, carousel, willow, nocturne, vessel, allure, languid, raspberry, glow, venus, salvation

 

[Amara]

Apathy
Innocence
Shattered