For those of you demanding to know what word it is, when the story comes out you can read it and tell me which one you think it is BWA HA HA HA HA HAH HA
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(One thing I enjoy in copyedits is running across a word or phrase that "everyone" thinks is archaic. It pleases me to neither change it nor even comment on it; I don't know how many words/phrases I grew up with that people go "Bwuh?" at, but this is a little bit of justice for those.)
OK, turns out Merriam-Webster just *have* this page available? https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1611
I'm gonna go ahead take a wild guess that the word is "garrulous", meaning "given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity: pointlessly or annoyingly talkative"
Garrulous isn't *that* rare, I mean, people don't use it in conversation, but I have read it in books many times. It's usually used to describe elderly women, for some reason.
I don't generally read short fiction, even from authors I like. I want the story to go on, so a quick ending doesn't please me. To quote another of my favorite authors, "And so it goes."
My guess is "astraddle", which I don't remember seeing very often if at all, was first attested in 1611, but makes perfect sense to a fluent speaker of modern English even if they've never encountered it before. Not the only one on that list but I can see using it in speculative fiction.
Can we ask you to write it down? Brandon Sanderson had a incident like this while he was writing Wind and Truth, and when people asked him what he was referring to after the book came out, he had forgotten.
That's very funny because I was coming here to ask what was that word. In college my friends used to tease me about my vocabulary because apparently I use $3 words without realizing it. So of course I was wondering if it seemed like a normal word to me 😄
Have you heard the good word sesquipedalian? It continues to exist as a superlative and exceptional linguistic descriptor for extensive and syntactically complex utilization of the English vocabulary.
"it is BWA HA HA HA. . . ."
Whaddaya know:
"AI Overview-The earliest recorded use of "ha ha" as a verb, meaning to laugh, dates back to the early 1600s. . . . The more modern, expanded form "bwahaha" is likely a later development. . . ."
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Bravo!
Reviving disused words is a good deed.
But I was going to punctuate it differently so I'm still a special snowflake.
At least tell us where the story will be published!
I'm gonna go ahead take a wild guess that the word is "garrulous", meaning "given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity: pointlessly or annoyingly talkative"
Garrulous is a pretty good guess. There are some great words on the list, but this might be my favorite:
Homonyms, rejoice!
I might have to adopt《stridulous》
https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1611
The last word you taught me was squicked
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Closing
Whaddaya know:
"AI Overview-The earliest recorded use of "ha ha" as a verb, meaning to laugh, dates back to the early 1600s. . . . The more modern, expanded form "bwahaha" is likely a later development. . . ."