Letter meme attack!

[xoder]

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and get a letter (if you're up to playing).

Write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why.

Thanks to msanborn I got the letter "D", so here we go in no particular order:


1. Delight: If you cannot experience childlike delight, you have already died.

2. Death: The only thing that you must do yourself. You cannot avoid it, or make someone else do it.

3. Doom: A fun word to say. DOOOOOOM!

4. Daylight: The reason I have sunglasses. Although I do enjoy the feeling of sunlight on my skin.

5. Delete: The backwards backspace.

6. Dork: Whale dick¹. Also: me.

7. Detritus: I try to cut off the detritus, but sometimes sentimentality gets the best of me. I'm not a full-scale hoarder by any means, but it can be difficult to get me to throw things out that I have not already decided should go.

8. Discordian: A philosophy where I don't have to take anything seriously (and if I do, I'm doing it wrong)? Precisely what my aneristic mind needs to take care of itself!

9. Diplomatic: I've been told I'm too diplomatic. Like the other day I asked a sales rep some questions. She had to put me on hold, and I apologized for the inconvenience. My dad chastized me: "It's her job!"

10. Dictionary: I almost refrained from looking in one to find the last word. Then realized that the title was enough. D'oh¹!


¹ Bonus D-word!!!
² In addition, please note that the icon is a D-word!

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Edits:
2006-04-26 1155: kgola tagged me with the letter J
2006-04-29 1040: mountainheather tagged me with the letter F [friends-locked post, sorry]
2006-05-02 1431: misch tagged me with the letter Y.

Comments

BTW, do you want a letter? If so, it is "L"

[xoder.livejournal.com]

None of the ones I have specify a donkey's ass' pimple:
http://m-w.com/dictionary/dork
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Adork&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=dork&Strategy=*&Database=*&sourceid=Mozilla-search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dork

Re: BTW, do you want a letter? If so, it is "L"

[shoujo-mallet.livejournal.com]

All this time I was wrong! Dork meaning whale's penis is apparently an urban myth [1 (http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/006133.htm)] [2 (http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask00/0128.html)]

Re: BTW, do you want a letter? If so, it is "L"

[xoder.livejournal.com]

Not really. If people think a certain word means something, and you successfully use it in discourse, then it means that. (So sayeth the descriptivists. Prescriptivists beware!)