Tintinnabulation is the ringing our sounding of bells. There is, of course, no reason you would ever actually say “tintinnabulation” when it takes three times as long as just saying “ringing”. Why this word is still around is a mystery, but it has a simple and direct etymology from Latin, so it may simply be the offspring of pompous 18th-century closeted assholes.
There is also an adjectival form — “tintinnabular” — which would probably be more useful. For example, one might say any of the following phrases:
“The tintinnabular engineer is coming this afternoon to fix the buzzing coming from C-sharp.”
“These are no ordinary bats, they are tintinnabular bats.”
“Dude! That shit is tintinnabular!”
This is a word I love because it is fun to say, sounds a little like what it means but its meaning is useless in modern society, and you would never ever say it, except in the sentence:
“I love the word ‘tintinnabulation.’”
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