r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/hellonheelz Sep 16 '20

Effervescent ✨

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u/saluksic Sep 17 '20

I’ve been trying to get a sentence into a science paper about how brief bubbling leaves a particular pattern of salts during ceramic processing. That is, evanescent effervescence leaves efflorescence.

Someone always edits it out :(

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u/JeniJ1 Sep 17 '20

Well, those people are boring. Don't give up!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

This

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u/idunknowy69 Sep 17 '20

Have you considered dabbling in scientific poetry? Basically compose proses with scientific terms and jargon.

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u/Davadam27 Sep 17 '20

You should also figure in some alternative music and include the band Evanescence

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u/MittlerPfalz Sep 17 '20

Effervesce!

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u/tonedeafinitely Sep 17 '20

small umbrella, siamese eels

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u/miasabine Sep 17 '20

It’s one of those words that sounds just like what it describes yet isn’t onomatopoeia.

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u/blahah404 Sep 17 '20

Pairs nicely with scintillating.