Lobster
| July 7, 2009 | Filled under Internerd |
Could be one of my favorite words. I love how the more you say it the less it means anything until it just eventually turns into a blob of saliva you roll around on your tongue continuously. It’s got everything — soft consonants, hard consonants, and the perfect inflection of vowels in between. Same with the word table.
Glad to see someone else shares by hatred for the word pulchritude. That word sounds like a rotting corpse in an overgrown cemetery.
But what’s with everyone who has trouble with the word moist. It sounds exactly like what it means, which is a rare and wonderful thing for a word to do.
I’ve never thought of lobster in that way, but you’re right.
Moist is nice, in an almost onomatopoeia sense, but I do love to say damp. Damp, damp, damp.
Damp is the sound that a somewhat soggy towel makes if you drop it on the floor. Also onomatopoeic.
I’ll have some butter on that.