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#138039 01/30/05 01:25 AM
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Ah, Nietsche!:

"Man is a bridge, not a goal."

(an earlier Nietsche discussion on this board):

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=61306

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>Nietzsche's aphorisms are the most insightful and witty

for a mo there I read that as inciteful.. but then inciteful is a very common "typo" for insightful -- YCLIU.


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27.5k Google hits is quite a few for a non-word. That would make a good contest!
I wonder which non-word (not counting colloquialisms) has the most Google hits...


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non-word

Aha! Another who seems to know what qualifies a group of phonemes for the honor of being called a word. Pray tell, AL, what are these qualifications? Every time I find one of y'all who blithely proclaims something a non-word and ask my simple question I get no answer. Please, AL, end the drought.


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Faldage,

Suppose I typed a group of random letters into an otherwise sensible sentence. Would we agree that the random letters were a 'non-word'? I'm suggesting this as a point of departure for the discussion.

Example sentence: Watching the labent water descend from the thawing pipe, the plumber considered eoxlibnsdaienvlab the brevity of life.

Can we agree or not that 'eoxlibnsdaienvlab' is a non-word?


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hey, you're coopting this thread, and in light of Faldo's reminder it really deserves its own.

and what about the Word zzxjoanw?? (ycliu)


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Sorry, tsuwm. I stand corrected.


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well, crossthreading like a madman, here is one of the epigraphs to Word Freaks.

"Words, words, words. I'm so sick of words."
- Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady

/thought balloon
maybe I should adopt an epigraph for my website..
/thought balloon off


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