I like to punch the reader in the face at the end of sentences – with dashes.
My favourite word is ‘objects’ (first syllable stressed, not the verb). Recently, however, ‘qua’ tempted me.
But then I saw it used as the first word of a sentence. This I found so tantalising, qua verbal anomaly, that its value qua non-initial word of a sentence, qua sentences including the word ‘qua’, significantly diminished in that, qua non-initial word of a sentence, ‘qua’ – I repeat, ‘qua’ qua the non-initial word of a sentence – became less attractive qua word potentially supplantive of ‘objects’ qua potential favourite word, for, when compared to the word ‘objects’, ‘qua’, qua mid-sentential ‘qua’, in fact, I decided, had less aggregate value qua va…
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I like to punch the reader in the face at the end of sentences – with dashes.
My favourite word is ‘objects’ (first syllable stressed, not the verb). Recently, however, ‘qua’ tempted me.
But then I saw it used as the first word of a sentence. This I found so tantalising, qua verbal anomaly, that its value qua non-initial word of a sentence, qua sentences including the word ‘qua’, significantly diminished in that, qua non-initial word of a sentence, ‘qua’ – I repeat, ‘qua’ qua the non-initial word of a sentence – became less attractive qua word potentially supplantive of ‘objects’ qua potential favourite word, for, when compared to the word ‘objects’, ‘qua’, qua mid-sentential ‘qua’, in fact, I decided, had less aggregate value qua value which factors in factors such as mood, sound, look and contextual connotation of the word when compared to the word ‘objects’; but, this is not because ‘qua’ loses out to ‘objects’ qua absolute loss, i.e. loss qua loss in which every instantiation of ‘qua’ is inferior to every instantiation of ‘objects’, but is rather because those contexts in which ‘objects’ is rendered verbally inferior, qua inferiority to ‘qua’, are so rare, that, qua a logic which takes frequency of victorious contexts into account – that is, victorious contexts qua contexts in which ‘qua’ is victorious qua verbal-satisfactional victory over those instantiations of ‘objects’ - it is only fair that, qua a fairness where frequency can recover deficits in absolute quality, the (first syllable stressed) word ‘objects’ validly holds off its supplantation qua favourite word from the word ‘qua’.
I’m also particularly fond of the way in which ‘excerpt’ is spelled; I find that the conjunction of ‘xc’, latterly complemented by the highly unusual ‘rpt’, makes it fulfilling. This is why the e’s just had to join the fun.
My other favourite words are:
‘reflux’
‘contra’
‘shapes’
‘frisked’
‘rupture’
‘vocoder’
‘lacerated’
‘synthesise’
‘slaughtered’
‘latissimus dorsi’
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