Wa-hoo, I just landed the engineer’s position aboard the Adventuress! I’ll start in February for the Spring 2009 season for 4½ months. Of course bittersweet because it takes me away from Katja, Ultimate and the people I love here in Portland. But I am certainly excited to be starting this chapter… now the interim needs attention.
Archive for November, 2008
Returning to the world of the employed
20th of November MMVIIIDefenition, seeking SLR – ov 6th, 5:02 pm
6th of November MMVIIIBelow is an email inquiry I submitted to Wayword Radio, a Podcast about words that Katja turned me onto.
Hey Wayword,
I came across a definition that, as far as I can tell, needs a word. I have recently delved into baking more, and I feel my breads & cakes need more semantic distinction than just lumping them in to the rest of my culinary pursuits. So I began a wordhunt.
However, my scouring of the dictionary and thesaurus for something of or having to do with baking have yielded no lingual arc. Could this be?
1. Patisserie has perhaps a correct root, being related to pasta or dough, but conceptually/colloquially refers a pastry shop. That’s too niche. Plus, the suffix if changed to -ary, would be too aurally confusing for my taste.
2. Culinary’s root implies the kitchen, which could work, but already has an associated definition that makes it feels too inclusive.
So I went to a Latin dictionary for a new root word, and this is where I’d love your input. My Latin is in no shape to judge, so I wonder, which of these two roots do you think would be better for my vocabulary expansion.
clibanus: an oven or furnace/tray for baking bread.
fornacalis : relating to an oven
fornacula : a small oven
fornax : fornacis : oven, furnace, kilnI like that cliban- refers to baking bread
I prefer the look and sound of forna- but don’t like the inclination to anglosize the spelling, also it could be assumed to mean that it has to do with fornication.clibanary, fornacary, furnacary: of or having to do with ovens baking.
“Definition, seeking a Single, Latin, Root—for long hours of kneading, and the fire to really heat things up.
Asa Nathannael Hunt
of or having to do with ovens
When searching for how to appropriately and succinctly congratulate a malign ex on an achievement, the words themselves can often feel sticky and emotionally infected—This much I noted when masticating the semantics of one such commendation. How does one say:
Congratulations on your [of or having to do with ovens] fame.
It seems so simple a concept, if I only had the right word.
We ended quickly; after an arduous, emotional stagnation had long set in. I think we had both wondered at if it would end, who would end it, and how. Then it was done.
After our seemingly impetuous schism, I rallied quickly—perfunctorily.
There was much speculation from many sides, as to the benefit of my propensity for self-exoneration. Enter the people that cared for me most, the ones that so poignantly exact my fears & assumptions. Some of them judged, while others condoned, or observed. Osmotic conversations—tears, concern, understanding, and compassion.
Now there’s avoidance. But we share friends, social events. Which leads to ridiculously feigned unawareness. Unacknowledgment. I seek to avoid wrath.
My relationships have always evolved into friendships. I don’t know here.
But I’ll try. Thus I look for a word, to say what I want a word that means of or having to do with ovens.