The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

[djewesbury]

Why thank you.

[LGTrotter]

bejewelled

I noticed.

The significance of this being?

[jdaw1]

The significance of this being?

First usage on TPF of that word. Gloating would have been met with scorn, but as it was done quietly, I thought that it should have been acknowledged.

There could, perhaps, be a subsidiary competition for those noticers.

[griff]

What an enjoyable thread! I love the sight of bomphiologia in the morning (with apologies to John Milius)

[jdaw1]

"galoots"

[LGTrotter]

I am pleased to say that I do not have to look up dithyramb to know that it has not been used correctly. I think.

It has been used entirely correctly. An extra point to Julian for your being such a bad sport.

Yes, perhaps I should have checked that no Classical Greek dancers or poetry composed along particular lines had been offered as an intermezzo for slides. I presumed too much.

I agree that the usage went slightly beyond the strict classical meaning. But in the sense of a song to the god of wine, I hoped that it was close enough.

I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.

[jdaw1]

I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.

Very gracious, thank you.

[jdaw1]

a 99% Waning Gibbous Moon

[DRT]

a 99% Waning Gibbous Moon

[djewesbury]

Extra points to DRT.

[DRT]

booklarning

Nice work.

[djewesbury]

He definitely gets paradoxical points for that one.

[LGTrotter]

New nomination;

quasquibicentennial.

[djewesbury]

New nomination;

quasquibicentennial.

No no. Too quotidian. A workaday word.

[LGTrotter]

Please add taradiddle to the appropriate thread.

Taradiddle. Isn't it lovely. I shall be using this word a lot.

[LGTrotter]

Two new nominations;

gracile, or fustilugs?

[djewesbury]

Beautiful, if somewhat showily used. More nonchalance please.

[jdaw1]

if somewhat showily used

The partial animadversion is noted.

[djewesbury]

if somewhat showily used

The partial animadversion is noted.

Better.

[DRT]

pettifogging

[LGTrotter]

pettifogging

I was hoping, but dared not presume...

Unless the Scylla and Charybdis of this thread (yes I do mean you two) have anything to say on the matter.

[DRT]

I was hoping, but no one spotted mine

[LGTrotter]

maelstrom.

Happy to oblige with a bit of mutual back scratching.

[djewesbury]

Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.

[LGTrotter]

Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.

Daniel, you're back! Saved from Julian, Barnes that is not ours.

I think you should post this here; http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.p ... t=Concerts which I discovered quite by chance when trying to see if Derek could add 'odious' to his list on this thread. Alas no, three times in total, once by myself and the other was in reference to Mr Paul Gadd. Quite.

[djewesbury]

I love the way you're revitalising old threads Owen. I'm very pleased to see that Derek enjoyed The Pogues in 2008. A friend of mine is in this popular beat combo. He wrote the music for Fairytale of New York. Christmas is his 'ker-ching' time of year.

[DRT]

I love the way you're revitalising old threads Owen.

Oh my. My Paul Gadd past has been outed again

[djewesbury]

klatsch

Hurrah! An excellent word. Showing up the more otiose members of though.

[LGTrotter]

I'm very pleased to see that Derek enjoyed The Pogues in 2008. A friend of mine is in this popular beat combo. He wrote the music for Fairytale of New York. Christmas is his 'ker-ching' time of year.

You know the great Jem? Wow, no really, wow. Did I mention how attractive you are looking? The Pogues are one of those bands who I used to go and see plenty in my youth, terrific nights out, but those were the days when I thought there was something cool about being a drunk. It feels very uncomfortable seeing Shane on telly these days, remembering cheering and singing while he delivered a set lying down sucking at a bottle. Was it mainly stage fright? I had a feeling it might be.

klatsch

Hurrah! An excellent word. Showing up the more otiose members of though.

Klatsch is from another language and the use of otiose in this context is deliberately provocative.

[djewesbury]

Yes, once again I agree with all you say, Owen. I once commissioned Jem to build a radio telescope in Lough Neagh and an upside-down shed at the loughshore. The telescope received radio waves from magnetic storms on Jupiter. The shed was meant to look like it had been inverted in a hurricane. The night we erected it we had force 12 winds (hurricane) and had to stand behind it, all pushing, to keep it upright. I like to think we precipitated the hurricane.

Yes, I share similar stories regarding the great Shane. In the late 1980s I marvelled at him. I met him once years later and he was, predictably enough, reasonably tedious.

I thought a klatsch had to involve coffee. I exclude you from the general otiosity hereabouts, of course, old chap.

[LGTrotter]

I have no objection to being labelled as otiose, it was more that prior to your use of it there was only one other, which was by, ahem, one LGTrotter of this parish. My light is well hidden by bushels betimes...

[djewesbury]

I have no objection to being labelled as otiose, it was more that prior to your use of it there was only one other, which was by, ahem, one LGTrotter of this parish. My light is well hidden by bushels betimes...

Cripes! Rumbled!

[jdaw1]

How else will we keep our antimacassars nice?

[LGTrotter]

How else will we keep our antimacassars nice?

I must own up to using it before, only last time I hyphenated it.

[djewesbury]

How else will we keep our antimacassars nice?

I must own up to using it before, only last time I hyphenated it.

[jdaw1]

A modern ostrakon.

I’m not convinced that the usage was accurate — doubtless explanation will follow.

[djewesbury]

Well, thank you, but I thought you might have picked up on the correct use of 'enormities' as well.

Heigh-ho.

[jdaw1]

Well, thank you, but I thought you might have picked up on the correct use of 'enormities' as well.

You spliced that in after I had read and quoted.

And your attempt at self-nomination is noted, with due scorn.

[djewesbury]

You've made me so proud.

[DRT]

ineluctable