Member 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?
Member I rather like
verbivore .
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member I am a
philologist in both the etymological and the 19th-century meanings.
Ceci n'est pas un seing .
Member I've been called a sesquipedalian logolept.
Member I also like linguaphile. We had this thread some time
ago.
<Asa Lovejoy> posted March 08, 2008 07:12
Being a lowly blue-collar type,
word freak suits me.
Member 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.
<Asa Lovejoy> posted March 08, 2008 18:38
"Erudite?" No, Kalleh, that's "troglodyte!"
Member Most of my friends would just generally call me Verbose.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member I've recently taken up roots in my new favorite self-referent: Orismologist
...
Member I'm a wordophile or a wordie (as in "foodie.")
