"Lucubrations" means, literally, thoughts or writings generated in artificial light, and now carries the implication of something a bit preciously expressed or reasoned, such that you had to stay up late to come up with it.
A holdover from the day when it was considered a bit much to actually use a lamp and stay up writing after dark.
(Courtesy of the OED in the Fifth Circuit's library.)
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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And now you've given me this. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYahoo! This is your lucubration
Yahoo! This is your lucubration
Lucubrate all night, come on! (Let's lucubrate)
Lucubrate all night, come on! (Let's lucubrate)
There's some thinkin' goin' on right here
A lucubration to fill your foes with tears,
So bring your textbooks, and your Google too
We gonna lucubrate at your party with you
Come on now
Lucubrations
Let's all lucubrate and have a good time
Lucubrations
We gonna lucubrate and have a good time
It's time to come together
Try to look smart, beyond all measure
Everyone around the world
Come on!
Yahoo! It's a lucubration...
((Somehow I think this could be an anti-example of lucubrations))
No, PMS, you definitely spent too much time thinking that up. I'm giving it the "lucubration" stamp.
ReplyDelete(The extra bonus about the word is the vaguely obscene sound it has, a la "lubricious" and "lubrication.")
We need an expert in Faux Latin to coin the parallel word for "thoughts conceived in the light of a computer screen."
I'm only a faux expert in Latin, so I can't be of much help. Pretty much that song thing is my only skill.
ReplyDeleteAnd quite a skill. Lazy song lyrics are my pet peeve; we should be making our fortunes adding variations to Britney Spears choruses.
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