Tuesday 5 April 2011

Running out of words?

If you comment as much as I do, and especially if you're trying to get round the thousand plus blogs involved in the A to Z Blogging Challenge, you could well be running out of words.

A couple of solutions borrowed from masters of the arts, Johnathan Bingham and H. P. Lovecraft. Yep, both of those names in the same sentence. He's not just a hot elf chick. Johnathan I mean.

Anyway, Johnathan's handy list of encouraging phrases is here at Ostensible Cat, and a list of Lovecraft's favourite words here, at Cthulhu Chick.

Thanks to NetherWerks for heralding the second, and those words are especially good for the unspeakable weirdness emerging from just one of their dark projects, Zalchis...

If anyone else knows any other examples of this kind of linguistic inspiration, feel free to leave a link or, even better, your own suggestions in the comments.
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6 comments:

Loquacious said...

thesaurus.com. Seems obvious, but I love it.

Bix said...

A great and very useful link Porky, I can now try to stop saying cheers mate to everyone.

I would bake you a cake but pie is better, cheers mate...Bugrit!

Trey said...

You can try Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon. ;)

Porky said...

@ Loquacious - Good call, and not obvious enough, obviously!

@ Bix - You're very welcome. I get the feeling we all love pie in these parts.

@ Trey - Excellent suggestions. Desiderate indeed!

The Happy Whisk said...

I don't have any cleaver phrases or links, but I am happy to see the great battle of Cake VS. Pie, continues.

Porky said...

Not to worry - you're the cherry on top.

That battle has seen a great many plates consumed and fillings spilled...