Ovidio to me (paraphrased from memory) -
Ovi: 'Your work has a certain level of fecundity, especially if you......blah blah blah' (I quit listening here because I was intrigued, shocked and in love with this new word.....no idea what it means)
Me: 'Excuse me? What was that word again? Fecunt? Awesome!!!'
Ovi: 'No, no...fecundity meaning fertile, growing, like bacteria....'
Me: 'Wow! Thanks Ovi!'
Now to look it up...and listen to it (my favorite part)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fecund
Main Entry: fe·cund
Pronunciation: \ˈfe-kənd, ˈfē-\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fecundus — more at feminine
Date: 15th century
1 : fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific
2 : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree
— fe·cun·di·ty \fi-ˈkən-də-tē, fe-\ noun
Prolific, feminine, fruitful, inventive, fertile....what a wonderful word - top 5!
Megan to me (paraphrased from memory) -
Megan: 'That looks like a giant grandma's vagina'
Me: ' Really? You think so? Not quite what I was going for, but I will take it.'
Megan: 'So, my sister just wrote a paper on Islam - (serious paraphrasing) - the idea of the burqa covering the female form because she her entire body is seen as a external manifestation of her genitalia. There is this word...pundenta, punta, pudendal....'
Me: 'What is that word again?'
Megan: 'Pudendal....it is amazing that a woman could be seen as a giant, walking pudendal - I think that is the word.'
Time to look it up -
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pudenda
Main Entry: pu·den·dum
Pronunciation: \pyu̇-ˈden-dəm\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pu·den·da \-də\
Etymology: New Latin, singular of Latin pudenda, from neuter plural of pudendus, gerundive of pudēreto be ashamed
Date: 1634
: the external genital organs of a human being and especially of a woman —usually used in plural
— pu·den·dal \-dəl\ adjective
- especially of a woman and coming from the Latin: to be ashamed
Me: 'Well, I will take the of feminine origin and the external genetaila part.....shove the ashamed part!'
Then begins a conversation about men/women gaze, sexual power, eroticism and ends with a bucket of penises somewhere in the Vatican.
So, two new words this week - Fecundity and Pudendal - to which I say, Juicy!