The writing challenge glom-on
I came across this writing challenge too late to join, and so I glommed on in the comments stream.
The organiser was kind enough to come and see my entry, and encourage me to join next time.
I have told him that I indeed have that plan, and I do!
But I am going to continue to glomm on here too, even as I get further behind the rest of the group. Unless I get a 'cease and desist' comment, which I hope isn't neccessary.
Anyway, I will just make my posts and those who wish to ignore me can continue to do so.
Also I hope to catch up and work at the rhthym of the rest, but have bitten off so many big, too big to chew, chunks of this parallel universe that we are collectively hallucinating called steemit, at once, that I will almost undoubtedly fail
Here is my day 2 effort. process first
I read the challenge, and as I remember it it is something like
(let me just say, I reread right now, and see that I should have done three words, but as I did do a few variations of the main word, I am going to call it a draw)
- go to your 'home library' (lol, I can't help myself. That's so fuckin' cute)
- grab the biggest juiciest dictionary you have
- choose a word you don't know, and write something or other. This is where my memory is letting me down
- or invent a word (wtf) and define it, write its definition.
I will link when I connect. (writing this isolated from the internet)
I decided to head to the home library and see what happens.
I discovered a fuckin' mess. Not safe for OCD sufferers
looking for dictionaries...
there's two Spanish-English ones, on each side of MJ
there's another one
but its a Latin to Spanish one, lol
hmmm...
so many learnings left unlearned
now hang on, what's that?
Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary...
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that's too much work, there in the second row.
looks like it's the Latin dictionary for me.
I decide to turn to page seventy seven and take the seventh word.
what a dusty mess!!
hmm, page 77
seventh word Chlamydàtus (should be a little line not accent, but have new keyboard and no can do. could look for how, but lets just give a little shall we?)
Chlamydàtus (noun)
- the unpleasant interval between clicking the confirm transfer button, after triple checking everything twice over, and seeing the first pending notification in your bitcoin wallet
"The chlamydàtus was almost reaching his feet, when the first confirm came through"
- The time between joining the discord chat rooms, and being accepted as one of the gang
"Her chlamydàtus increased steadily through the afternoon, as more and more people came and went, greeting each other as old friends"
- also can be used in a general sense for the feeling of lost that accompanies one at all times in steemit.
"my chlamydàtus knows no bounds"
Derivitives;
Chlamydàctile (adjective) of, or causing Chlamydàtus.
"I had the most chlamydàctile afternoon, you wouldn't believe it!"
Chlamydàct (verb) to cause others to suffer from Chlamydàtus
The sign said "long-haired freaky people need not chlamydàct"
Chlamydàctely (adverb)
"You're too pretty" he said chlamydàctely.
aww, that''ll do.
I hope I entertained you for a minute or three.
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If you would like to see yesterday's entry, be my guest!
I am almost finished a follow on post to my popular cycling team drawing post but it is still not posted.
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