Specialized Words Are Hot

[diane_kepler]

On my e-clinic profile under "hobbies", I wrote

Figuring out the names of medical instruments. Forming latin plurals. Worshipping people who can form latin plurals and who know the names of their medical instruments.

Somebody asked why I listed these things. I was tempted to say I was just feeling the pull of asshattery when I first wrote it. However

Comments

[postrophe]

I love weird words...
..e.g: I love that "speculum" is both Latin for "mirror" and, well.. you know.

[diane_kepler]

I actually forgot about the "mirror" meaning. It's hot that you knew that :)

[easilymused1956]

Oh, see, I love adding 'specialized' words in my stories. Always have.

I'm also a researcher. I have spent more time researching facts than actually writing stories. Right now I have a WIP with a longer list of real-life facts saved in a document than the damn story.

But you know what makes me crazy-wild? Accents. Give me a good Russian accent and I turn to putty. English is good too.

Ah, must find a good movie with some decent accents to listen to.

Renee

[diane_kepler]

Accents can indeed be pretty hot. Back when I was but a slip of a girl, British accents were the hottest things going. But then I actually dated a guy with a British accent who was a total smeg-head and that kind of ruined the whole accent for a long time. Now it's slowly creeping back into my imagination, due in some part to my current writing associate Dr. Brian.

I love watching movies with subtitles, like French films or anything by Zhang Yimou. It's like walking in a soft spring rain.

[easilymused1956]

I used to role-play and would use my 'Natasha' accent. Drove the guys nuts. Unfortunately, I wasn't into much younger guys. At that time.

Ah, you have an English Dr. Brian? Nice.

I've spent all my life with a significant hearing loss in one ear. When captioning came out, I ecstatic. So, I love subtitled movies, too.

I really like the sound of Chinese and Japanese.

Renee

[janice_lester]

Why would people with this interest not want to learn those all-important little details? Little details in any roleplay arena make for greater verisimilitude, and reassurance that someone cares about--and is--Doing It Right. Why would the idea of someone finding signs of competence attractive be foreign to anyone? I don't get why this person does not get you. ?

[diane_kepler]

You're hot when you say "verisimilitude", you know that? :)

But, yeah, I completely agree. As for the people who don't get me, it beats me (and not in the good way) why they don't -- my way being The Right Way, of course. Nonetheless, I'm very glad that you get me. Perhaps our shared details in "those all-important little details" is why I find your stories so endlessly funny and sexy and good.

[klashfor]

I'll have you know I'm researching physiology for a story that involves Kirk trying to find out what Spock has in his pants. I blame you entirely for this. I'm trying to work in humans investigating a cure for haemochromatosis using Vulcan DNA because their blood is copper based instead of iron. My mum used to be a nurse and I love all that jargon.

[diane_kepler]

Right on! But do you blame me because of Live Schlong and Prosper or weird Vulcan peen stories or recent medical pervery?

[klashfor]

I choose d) All of the above :P

Any ideas for odd Vulcan physiology quirks?

[diane_kepler]

The best resource on Vulcan physiology that I've ever come across is here.

If you're talking specifically about teh peen, janice_lester is far and away the unchallenged expert. She can make up weird peen like you and I can make a sandwich.

Three I have never seen:

- curled, like a chameleon's tail
- possessing more than one opening
- sentient

[jouissant]

I think asking you why you wrote what you did falls into the category of "if you have to ask, you'll never know."

Finding those qualities in a playdoc not only gets me hot by itself, but it also cuts down on my worry that I might get jerked out of a good role play when he comes out with "the thingamahoodle I use to listen to your heart".

Oh, this made me laugh! Something similar has happened to me and it was tragic. Tragic!

[diane_kepler]

You _must_ tell me of the similar thing that happened to you. PM, me, I don't care, but I _must_ know.