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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Komorebi
A beautiful Japanese word that refers to the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.
This is one of those words not directly translatable to one word in English.
"A single picture of komorebi can be worth a thousand words in English."
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2016 - 03:22pm PT
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Nice word, Mouse!
I submit to all you pundits: Didactic:
adjective
1.
intended for instruction; instructive:
didactic poetry.
2.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much:
a boring, didactic speaker.
3.teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Didactic; some of our favorite people, not!
Didactic; evokative, still, somewhat pedantic.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I have always maintained didactic teaching as that which entertains while being instructive. Many of my earliest posts, Flames-wise, say just that.
"Didaction" is no word, btw, bros.
MORALITY creeps in there quite easily, however. It's up to the teacher.
An auto-didact would be exemplified by Abe Lincoln, naturally.
I am, all too often, pedantic, BUT I'M NOT SORRY FOR BEING SO!!!!
I share many of the same complaints as this writer, Catherine Bennett.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/28/grammar-pedant-modern-tribes-catherine-bennett
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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I would not think of your lectures/posts as didactic or the least bit boring, Mr Mouse.
To the contrary your posts are informative and interestingly varied.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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There are standards in all facets of life, from plain manners to climbing to making excuses.
Of course, one need only satisfy oneself on a forum such as we share. But it's better if one tries to please others, though we cannot please everyone.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 19, 2016 - 09:47pm PT
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It's a three-fer to celebrate the Leap Year.
The moon has entered Leo and as a result the eucalyptapocalyptic sits in splendid equipoise with the "politapocayptic" tonight on the supertacopocalypse.
It's a sure sign of the vernal equinocapocalyptic, which will be coming soon.
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perswig
climber
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Mar 21, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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"rampike"
noun, Chiefly Canadian.
1. a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.
Called 'dri-ki' around most of Maine, but have heard rampike occasionally by Frenchies up in the County.
Dale
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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sublime:
adj. / of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
CHEMISTRY
verb / (of a solid substance) change directly into vapor when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling.
archaic
elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence.
"The Clouds Are Nice thread is sublime as heck."
"Many glaciers from temperate, alpine and seasonal polar climates store water as ..... pressure, ablation near the surface is solely due to sublimation, not melting."
"Nothing that penetrates one's senses is sublime in itself; but only as far as one makes it a symbol of some Idea. Shapely boobs are beautiful in themselves; a breast becomes sublime, however, when I contemplate eternity, birth, and procreation while gazing at it."
[paraphrasing Coleridge]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(literary);
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2016 - 10:10am PT
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Lygophilia
"Lygophilia is an abnormal desire to be in dark or gloomy places (from the Greek word "lyge", meaning "twilight").
People do not usually 'suffer' from Lygophilia, but rather choose to use it. People who are Lygophilic like to be in dark places, or travel at night.
According to basic Psychology, the term Lygophilia is forgotten frequently for its loss of usage in the modern day society like 'dhat' and 'echolalia'."
"Twilight is the time before sunrise and after sunset when sunlight reflected from particles in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the earth.
Civil twilight begins (in the morning) and ends (in the evening) when the centre of the sun, as refracted by the atmosphere, is more than 6 degrees below the horizon. (Typically, the stars are not yet visible.)
Nautical twilight begins and ends when the centre of the refracted disk of the sun is greater than 12 degrees below the horizon. This is the time when sailors can take reliable star sights of well known stars, using a visible horizon for reference.
Astronomical twilight begins and ends when the centre of the refracted disk of the sun is greater than 18 degrees below the horizon. Not all stars normally accessible to the naked eye are visible during this time.
(For these definitions, the horizon is assumed to be 90 degrees from the zenith.)
In high latitudes in summer time the twilight may extend from sunset to sunrise. This phenomenon is known as white night."
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Oct 21, 2016 - 10:32am PT
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... from the Greek word "lyge", meaning "twilight" And there's crepuscular, which is of Latin origin and means "of or pertaining to the twilight".
It's also used in the sense of "dim", as in "This new proposal is yet another example of management's crepuscular thinking."
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Oct 21, 2016 - 12:33pm PT
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meraki
meraki [may-rah-kee] (adjective) This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put "something of yourself" into what you're doing, whatever it may be.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 21, 2016 - 05:26pm PT
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I must have missed last month, so here's two words
tusk tenon
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:30pm PT
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Chintamani
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Oct 22, 2016 - 06:01am PT
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I'm a great fan of:
Hooliganism
From Dictionary. com:
Origin of hooligan
1895-1900
1895-1900; perhaps after the Irish surname Hooligan, but corroborating evidence is lacking
Not the behavior but when used ironically. The sound as it runs off the tongue and through the chambers of the mind is sublime.
BAd
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Oct 22, 2016 - 09:22am PT
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Cheetohitler
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 29, 2016 - 12:25am PT
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Anatidaephobia
Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.
Anatidaephobia is derived from the Greek word "anatidae", meaning ducks, geese or swans and "phobos" meaning fear.
A: Dude, Anatidaephobia is the coolest phobia ever!
B: Quack!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 29, 2016 - 01:22am PT
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Subterranean Mediterranean Cruise
Look out, kid, it's somethin' you did
God knows when but you're doin' it again
You got a duck down the alleyway
Who wants to be your friend
The swan in the coonskin cap
Wants eleven dollar bills
And you've only got that hen
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 29, 2016 - 01:27am PT
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Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence,
and by inflated self-esteem and a need for acquiring power and control.
Historically it was used as an old name for narcissistic personality disorder.--Wikipedia
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