Galimatias - A most excellent new-to-me word.

[3catwoman3]

Courtesy of Dictionary.com's Word of the Day feature:

galimatias - confused or unintelligible talk. A perfect word for describing RWNJ blatherings.

I wish I had known this word during the 2008 campaign. It fits Palin perfectly.

And, kudos to any DUers who already knew this word.

[SharonAnn]

1. New to me, too. .And that rarely happens

I have always loved words and accumulated thousands of them, if I didn't understand exactly what they meant.

But this one is new to me.

[3catwoman3]

3. I also love words, and, if I may say so, have a...

...better-than-typical vocabulary because of this interest (not bragging - really, truly, so I hope it doesn't sound that way).

I have never even seen this word before. There are obscure words I have looked up and forgotten because of no opportunity to use them, but this was not one of them.

One of the things I enjoy most about DU is the level of verbal sophistication found here. Dare I say erudition? So many areas of expertise among the DU population.

[Quantess]

2. It's more common in swedish.

I didn't know that was a word in english.

[lady lib]

4. I like my word salad to have a light sprinkling of Galimatias

for crunch and additional flavor.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Thank you

My favorite word is masticate, because when most people here it they freeze.

"Where's Joe?"

"He's masticating in the break room"

[3catwoman3]

6. Remember all the uproar when a professor somewhere...

...used the word niggardly in a public statement? Without looking it up, I do not recall the circumstances, but I sure do recall the you-know-what hitting the fan because most people didn't know the definition and were running around with their hair on fire. That is a word I would steer clear of just because of the general ignorance of so many people.

[3catwoman3]

8. Here is a link to a very good...

...article about this word, written by a black British scholar who was musing on whether or not to use this word when coming to the US.

Also, to correct myself, it was a mayoral aide, not a professor, who got in hot water.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/02/niggardly_is_not_a_bad_word/

[awoke_in_2003]

9. I seem to remember that...

it is a word I avoid, since so few use it anymore. Don't want to risk misunderstandings.

[Orrex]

7. I thought that was The Doctor's native language