Fascination with numbers or words?

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The irony being that the word is hardly ever used that way.

You might stumble upon an abandoned car in the jungle 'festooned" with vines.

But you would never engage in 'festooning", and set out to 'festoon' an object.

Or would you?

I am more fascinated by words. I would pretend to be a professor lecturing students with big vocabulary words when I was a child. I am mostly fascinated by synonyms of specific words.

Numbers more than words, but sometimes words & making them up etc. A friend of mine is a lot more into making up/changing word pronunciations etc than anything to do with numbers, so I get my exposure to this AS trait when I hang out with him. And it's kinda cool, and fun, and in a way.. sorta "cute."

Whatever floats your goat, right?

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I'm more fascinated with words.

I'm more interested in words, accuracy with their meanings, spellings and connotations, etc. Fits into that BBC Thinking test thing I did the other day that said I was a Linguistic thinker, I guess.

i do not like numbers that feel sharp to me, I like round/puffy numbers. Obviously they are friendlier. I'm not math minded.

I love words and their etymology. I love old slang and look up word and phrase origins all the time. I like word play and mixing them around but I can easily fixate on a phrase and lose track of conversation or a movie/tv show because I am rolling an expression around my mind. Sometimes it's because I don't 100% get what they meant by it other times it's just a wonderful new expression I never heard and I am trying to break it down or ponder it's origin.

someone here said they like when people's names and jobs go together...that's called an Aptronym

Words, specifically the etymology of words; and the concept of meaning being an affect of sense.

I used to be obsessed with Cantonese phrases as a kid, and would say those words instead of what the real terms in English are. Got me some very odd looks indeed.

Did you say them IN Cantonese?

Or did you say these phrases literally translated into English?

Even the latter would get you some strange looks.

Did you ever call anyone a "turtle egg"?

Though ive read that its one of the worst insults you can say to a Chinese, to an English speaker its just ludicrus and laughable.

In China turtles are considered promiscuous. So it really means-well you know.