Do you get fascinated by certain words?

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Or find them funny? Sometimes I say them really fast in a low, creaky voice.

Today's words are:

Bustle

Coeptus

Potamus

Yea, certain words or phrases can circle my mind for months and become a theme of mine, as either a temporary guideline for how I should, essentially, administer myself, or as a virtue to live by. Some examples are self-sufficiency, adaptability, efficiency, speed. I like these words because they represent qualities of not one thing or one individual, but many things, and can be applied anywhere as well as myself, to help myself embody what I desire, effectively putting me in the place of what interests me, rather than having me observe it from an external perspective.

I like to try them out in different ways, which I'm sure looks like me talking to myself.

I don't so much get fascinated by words themselves as their origins. Say I happen to think of a certain word, and then I start to wonder how it came to be. Most of the time, though, I'm too lazy to dig deep into them.

I like the name of my old anxiolytic called Tranko Buskas
And the Norwegian name Knut
The words mushroom and muchomůrka (amanita in czech)

I keep telling these words without noticing that I do.

Inimitabley intriguing.

If I find a new word, I try obsessively to get it into every single conversation I possibly can until I get bored or find a new new word. Or make one up. NT's don't know whether it's made up or real most the time. It's all down to their own frasmotic contrafibularities

Saying "Hi everybody!" I like saying this because of the Simpsons character Dr. Nick saying it. I always found the way he said really funny. So when I say it. I kind of try to sound like him or think that I sound like him saying it even though I didn't do the voice.

I used to find the word "knickers" hilarious. Not just because of the meaning either. It sounded funny and it began with two consonants.

I find words fascinating. I like the way they sound:

Lugubrious
Pernicious
Obsequious
Convalescence
Illustrious
Corpus
Egregious

Now these came straight off the tip of my tongue, and actually, I can see at least something in common with most. They're nearly all pejorative and dramatic. Porbably a reflection on my mental state as it is right now

Yes, I can repeat words or phrases which surface from my memory involuntarily for days. There doesn't seem to be a reason for it, other than the obsessional part of being an Aspie.

Words I love:

Ailurophile (a fancy name for a cat lover)
Lynx point Siamese

Names I love:

Rafael Nadal
Roger Federer
Denis Istomin
Janko Tipsarevic

Not only are they some of my favorite players, but the names themselves are interesting to me.

The names are interesting. Most of them contain assonance (a repitition of vowel sounds) or unusually emphasised vowel sounds such as Janko (Jan - ko is pretty memorable to me).

Powerful words, said with aggression:

Vortex
Rip
Slam
Strike
Force