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An ingenious playwright can create an entire scene "out" of ONE word.
ONE word can germinate an entirely new way of looking at or investigating reality, for instance, the word "biosystems" which is said to be sweeping through academia today.
ONE Word can even launch a universe, or all the universes, so the bible instructs.
Any person who creates ONE word which ignites untold thousands of minds and sets them racing off into untold thousands of new directions, has a place in history for all time, wouldn't you say?
Consider our own Faldo ... who inspired "adroitless".
How much faldage has Faldage toiled so fruitlessly to publish all of these many years without a single word of it springing to mind when it might serve some useful purpose?
Consider then the triumphant singularity of a single word, just ONE word, in the life of our very own Faldage.
If Faldo never inspires or creates another single new word, can anyone say Faldo is livid in vain?
Even if no-one else were to remember "adroitless", "adroitless" will always be on the tip of Faldo's tongue.
Some will say, that's exactly where "adroitless" belongs.
[Just kiddin, Faldage. Male bonding stuff, ya know.]
My comment about "grok" was expressing some surprise about a word which is not in the general literature but which is fairly generally known and understood. A straw poll in my work team shows that everyone in the team knows it and what it means and that most of them know who came up with it and name of the book it was in. Only a few have actually read the book. I was reminded, however, that it was shamelessly ripped off and used by the creator the "Judge Dredd" comic.
My team is made up in roughly equal numbers of IT geeks and bankers.
apparently, stum's *not the word
I would protest that meaning myself, Faldage. Any faithful follower of "faldage" would.
If "faldage" can't stand for what it means, let it stand for nothing at all.
In fact, let it stand for "nothing at all".
Nil vix labor. English translation: "making the easy look difficult; adroitless. syn: faldage."
glomerulus
SYLLABICATION: glo·mer·u·lus
PRONUNCIATION: gl-mry-ls
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. glo·mer·u·li (-l)
Anatomy 1. A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers. 2. A tuft of capillaries situated within a Bowman's capsule at the end of a renal tubule in the vertebrate kidney that filters waste products from the blood and thus initiates urine formation.
ETYMOLOGY: New Latin, diminutive of Latin glomus, glomer-, ball.
In "The Graduate," Mr. McGuire said to a young Dustin Hoffman: "Just one word... plastics."
It is interesting how an entire culture could glom onto the single word "grok", Capfka.
It is also interesting how a single word, namely, "plastics" in "The Graduate", can define an entire culture, as well as the lead character's complete estrangement from that culture.
Interesting, it only took ONE word to make Dustin Hoffman's character feel like "a stranger in a strange land".
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