Never give up; you never know until you try.
I've said it before, and I'm saying it again: I love words! Words are my "thing!" One obscure or under-used word leads me to another, as well as to double-checking the definitions, which leads me to another word, and another . . . Please; somebody stop me!
I sent someone an e-mail recently that was so long that I self-deprecatingly noted that it was like reading "War & Peace." Then I observed that commenting on the length and thoroughness could be construed as an example of my sardonic wit. You can guess what I did next. Yep--I checked the dictionary for the definition of "sardonic," discovering that it has a decidedly more negative connotation than I meant, but I went with it, anyway.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sardonic?s=t
I noticed the word origin notation, which said that the word is an alteration of one that refers to a plant that, when eaten, causes convulsive laughter and death. My juices were really going by this point, so I googled "kill with laughter," and I ran across some interesting results. Try it! You might have as much fun as I did! Or not. You might have a less twisted, dark sense of humor than I do.
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