Oxford English Dictionary. Ebon (eh-bahn) Adj. 1) Word used by fanfic writers to describe something "black" in just a shade more irritating fashion.
You can't make up stuff like that. *nods*
Actually, it is in the OED; Shakespeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Keats all use it (as well as Terry Pratchett, which is where I picked it up). It's just really annoying, as a word. How hard is it to add the Y?
AHAHAHAAAAAAAAA! You just watch, I'll dig those posts up. You made fun, multiple times, of a fic that kept using ebon. I think it was "A Perfect Circle" by Gwendolyn Flight.
Oh, yes, I remember making fun of those color terms--I've also, in my time, mentioned emerald and obsidian and silver-gilt and amber--but only because I hate using flowery color descriptors to describe characters' eyes.
Although I'm very fond of Young Pea, still. I like to think of Harry's eyes as being that color.
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Date: 7/24/03 07:28 pm (UTC)Emerald.
Jade.
Porcelain.
And "ebon," which as Tradescant has noted, is not even word.
*relurks*
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Date: 7/24/03 07:28 pm (UTC)Sorry.
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Date: 7/24/03 08:04 pm (UTC)Oxford English Dictionary. Ebon (eh-bahn) Adj. 1) Word used by fanfic writers to describe something "black" in just a shade more irritating fashion.
You can't make up stuff like that. *nods*
Actually, it is in the OED; Shakespeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Keats all use it (as well as Terry Pratchett, which is where I picked it up). It's just really annoying, as a word. How hard is it to add the Y?
*grins*
*will stop spamming this post now*
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Date: 7/24/03 08:54 pm (UTC)I couldn't have said that, could I? I knew it was a word.
d
Date: 7/24/03 09:15 pm (UTC)<3333333333333333333333333333333
*rubs hands together maliciously*
Anyway, if it is a word, it shouldn't be.
Re: d
Date: 7/24/03 09:32 pm (UTC)Although I'm very fond of Young Pea, still. I like to think of Harry's eyes as being that color.
young pea!
Date: 7/25/03 08:03 am (UTC)It's better than "new milk".
Re: young pea!
Date: 7/25/03 04:05 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/tradescant/39247.html
Look especially at the end of the comments thread for impromptu fanfic by Minx.