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Going on a vocab hunt; I’m not afraid

Do there exist words for the following?

  1. An emotion that can only be accurately described by nonverbal expressions
  2. Beauty of a type or degree that makes the viewer uncomfortable
  3. Two people close enough in age that they could not be siblings (and far enough separated in age that they could not be twins)
  4. The position of honor in film actor billings in which they state, at the end of the list of stars, “with foo and bar“

Real words only, please.  I’m not looking to play e-Sniglets :)

Highly recommended:  The Have a Word For It by Howard Rheingold (not in print?) and:

Unread (if someone wants to buy me the Kindle edition, LMK; I’ve sent the sample to Cabin Small):

OK, fine, since people are going to post smartass answers anyway, I might as well pretend I courted them

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:53 -0500
Under reading, wordplay
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3 Responses to “Going on a vocab hunt; I’m not afraid”

  1. Moog Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 06h46

    I don’t know about the others – something to ponder. But the beauty one seems to be the 50-year-old meaning of awesome.

  2. Joshua (Site Owner) Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 07h58

    What, like a hot dog?

  3. mcgees.org » Blog Archive » On being almost totally officially old Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 00h13

    [...] And Akerman?  We’re “close enough in age that [we] could not be siblings”. [...]

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