<p>Just thought it would be interesting to see what everyone put on the Princeton application as their favorite word:</p>
<p>add to the list! you know you have nothing better to do for the next <100 hours</p>
<li>ucfilm007 - panache</li>
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<p>Haha I'm pretty sure we've already done this, but I don't see a reason not to start it up again. It will pass the time/raise our post counts ;).</p>
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<li>ucfilm007 -panache</li>
<li>j07 - *chispeante<a href="which%20means%20'sparkling'%20in%20Spanish,%20but%20it's%20kind%20of%20an%20family%20joke-ish/sentimental%20thing...I%20marginally%20explained%20it">/I</a></li>
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<li>ucfilm007 -panache</li>
<li>j07 - chispeante (which means 'sparkling' in Spanish, but it's kind of an family joke-ish/sentimental thing...I marginally explained it)</li>
<li>Sunshadow's D: Epiphany</li>
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<ol>
<li>ucfilm007 -panache</li>
<li>j07 - chispeante (which means 'sparkling' in Spanish, but it's kind of an family joke-ish/sentimental thing...I marginally explained it)</li>
<li>Sunshadow's D: Epiphany</li>
<li>Shrivats - oxymoron. (I flitted between about 5 different words. :))</li>
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<p>^Me too.
I was torn between quintessence, the word I put, infinity, serendipity, and rococo. </p>
<p>Which are all awesome words.</p>
<p>strange, rococo was also one of my choices!</p>
<p>Haha that's really weird. I had to write a paper about language for my TOK class, and my introduction was basically likening different words to different muscial instruments.</p>
<p>Serendipity - silvery trill of flute
Rococo - playful roll on the marimba
Quintessence - clarinet slur
Baroque - low rumble of a tuba</p>
<p>I'm kinda strange.</p>
<p>One flits between two words. More than two, among.</p>
<p>I correct people's grammar ALL the time. Especially between good/well, right/correctly, and fast/quickly.</p>
<p>But thanks for pointing that out. "Torn between" sounds much more colloquially correct, though. "I was torn among," while correct, is strange.</p>
<p>Actually, right and fast are both accepted adverbs.</p>
<p>Your words make mine look so boring...but I'm German so I guess it's OK if I didn't pick a really rare, really interesting one.</p>
<p>Eh, they're 'accepted,' perhaps, but it still sounds strange to say "We spell right." Instead, "we spell correctly," sounds better and is more grammatically correct.</p>
<p>We did peer-editing in AP/IB English IV the other day and 3 people that I helped (out of 4) misused both your/you're and too/two/to in a TWELFTH GRADE ADVANCED ENGLISH TYPED ESSAY.</p>
<p>I almost smashed my head into my desk.</p>
<p>Picayune for me; ties in with me being a quizzer, plus I just like the sound of the word, rolls off your tongue. 'Course I was torn between that and sonorous :)</p>
<p>(Passes on earnestly apologetic message from Shrivats (he's my twin), who can't believe he used 'between' incorrectly and who's a bit of a grammar Nazi himself)</p>
<p>My bone of contention as a former English major:</p>
<p>When the grocery store check-out lines still say "12 or less" rather than "12 or fewer".</p>
<p>Hahaha. That's funny.
You should write your own little paper signs and sneakily tape them up over the "12 or less" signs. You'd be a grocery-store-grammar-police-rascal! </p>
<p>Perhaps you could don a cape and mask.
Then again, you're a parent.
But you're cool anyway. ;)</p>
<p>I put *oui * as my favorite word.</p>
<p>Grammar pet peeves: using an objective pronoun as a predicate nominative and 'less' instead of 'fewer'. Those are the most frequent ones...</p>
<p>Though, do you find that people who use perfect grammar sound a bit off? Little odd things like using possessive pronouns before gerunds.</p>
<p>Haha I do that all the time. "It's not 'that's easier than me walking over there,' it's 'that's easier than my walking over there.'"</p>
<p>I'm fairly obnoxious, I presume. Actually, I do that in my head. I only correct people who I'm really close to.</p>
<p>My word was terse. I like to think I am.</p>
<p>Don't get me started on split infinitives and Oxford commas! They pretty much ruined Star Trek for me :) (at least TNG)</p>
<p>Truthiness, Stephen Colbert Rock!</p>