I learned two new words this week, both pertaining to my current work (or the people I learned these words from say so).

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

synonyms see fertile

— 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 \-d^əl\ 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!