i'm feeling bellicose. i'm feeling confrontational, frustrated, and right. and belligerent. both bellicose, and belligerent. not antebellum, or at least not yet.
the opportunities for alliteration and cleverness abound, right now, but i'm way not interested enough to pounce on it.
the possible sets:
--- bellicose / belligerent / believe / rebel / belle : the words for hostile derive from the latin bellum, making them redundant, but most people wouldn't know it, but i would. belle is always how the root sounds to me, but is of course french (and english via loan) for beautiful, which is ironic. and something about "belligerent" makes me think of "believe". again, the irony.
--- frustrated / feisty / fight / fright
--- aggressive / assertive / argumentative / accusatative // aggress / assert / arguementate / accusatate : it sounds so serious. and then, "accusatative" and even worse, "accusatate". it resists being taken seriously, and as we know, if i have any morals at all, that's one of them.
--- pell-mell / what the hell / a smattering of other "-ell" words.
strangely, having indulged myself in my favorite pedantic practice like the pontificative pilkunnussija i have so pretentiously proven myself to be, i no longer want to argue at things.
many thanks, english, old sport.
claire.
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