Howdy,
After getting tired of typing in the awfully long
‘dreamcatcher.homeunix.org’, and my wrist started hurting, I decided
to go ahead and register a shorter domain name, which was in my radar
for a couple months. So, now this site will be available as
awkly.org. For those who doesn’t know what awkly means, here’s the
Webster‘s definition:
- Awkly Awk"ly, adv.
- In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner. [Obs.] –Holland.
- Awkwardly. [Obs.] –Fuller.
So, basically awkly comes from awkward, for which Wordnet has a
lenghty definition:
- awkward
- (adj) causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance;
"an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward
with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy
fingers produced an awkward knot" [ant: {graceful}]- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape;
"an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome
paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a
rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: {bunglesome},
{clumsy}, {ungainly}]- not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if
the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it
now?" [syn: {clumsy}, {cumbersome}, {inapt}, {inept},
{ill-chosen}]- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment;
"awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the
discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a
sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting
to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the
campaign" [syn: {embarrassing}, {sticky}, {unenviable}]- not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner;
"awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among
eddies of people he didn’t know"; "was always uneasy with
strangers" [syn: {ill at ease(p)}, {uneasy}]
And… why did I choose such an awkly (no pun intended) domain name?
Well, because I identified myself with the definition, specially the
part about reserved at parties and his cumbersome writing style :)
Bah!
And it’s length, not lenght!