BIG words

[woops]

medicine and life sciences have some long words, but I don't know if they count as "big"

yeah good point big words are stuff like I'm gonna knock your block off etc

 

[william_kent]

yeah good point big words are stuff like I'm gonna knock your block off etc

"talking big"

 

[woops]

this thread might be better named difficult words or obscure words

 

[luka]

not as good a title that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

One of my favourite TV/movie clichés is when one character uses a very long word or complex phrase, usually for something scientific or technical, and a second character, as if to say "What are you banging on about, Poindexter?", incredulously repeats the entire word or phrase, but with the last syllable replaced by what, as in:

"It turns out those 'ecstasy' pills were laced with phenoldihydrochloride benzelex."

"Phenoldihydrochloride benzewhat?!"

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

[Benny Bunter]

'Fold-axes' refers to the direction of the thrust when the earth's strata are folded by volcanic activity to form rises and depressions

Durchstich-/punkte | rechanneling points: In geology refers to the technical term in flood control for cutting through sharp curves in a meandering river, that is, a means of altering the landscape by rechanneling the river.
Another meaning is also possible - it can refer to the points left in a chart or map which is copied by means of pinpoints.

 

[Benny Bunter]

The background to most of these poems is his parents being arrested by the Nazis and taken to the forced labour camps in 1942 where they were worked to death in the snow. Heavy stuff.

 

[WashYourHands]

Decarboxylation - a chemical reaction that removes a carboxyl group and releases carbon dioxide

Usually, decarboxylation refers to a reaction of carboxylic acids, removing a carbon atom from a carbon chain

 

[Benny Bunter]

Blows my mind that Prynne picked up on mid-late 60s Celan and was reading him before they were even translated into English. They were obviously kindred spirits - Glacial Question must have been written around the same time as Atemwende/Breathcrystal was published.

 

[version]

"An essential feature of the Western control machine is to make language as non-pictorial as possible, to separate words as far as possible from objects or observable processes."