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Posted
March 05, 2008 21:22
There seem to be so many of them out there. What's your preferred term testifying to your enjoyment of words? For now, I think logophile suffices quite well, for me.
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I rather like
verbivore .
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
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I am a
philologist in both the etymological and the 19th-century meanings.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing .
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I've been called a sesquipedalian logolept.
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I also like linguaphile. We had this thread some time
ago.
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Being a lowly blue-collar type,
word freak suits me.
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Hey, Asa, Congrats on your 4000 posts! When I look back over some of those posts of yours, there is no way you should call yourself a "lowly blue-collar type." I find you very erudite.
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"Erudite?" No, Kalleh, that's "troglodyte!"
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Most of my friends would just generally call me Verbose.
*******"Show your true colors. Mine is Yellow." ~Big Bird
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I've recently taken up roots in my new favorite self-referent: Orismologist
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I'm a wordophile or a wordie (as in "foodie.")
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Ascriptivism is a viable alternative.
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