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#143915 06/15/05 07:06 PM
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deviosity = 1,610 English pages on Google

deviosity = root beer up my nose



#143916 06/15/05 07:36 PM
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>And here I thought I was honoring its subtlety by not mentioning it directly.

Forgive me, but I don't see that you mentioned it at all. You did quote the word Dylan from another person's post, though.


#143917 06/15/05 10:27 PM
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Forgive me

Geez, Vern, lighten up.


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deviosity = 1,610 English pages on Google

deviosity = root beer up my nose

laughter = priceless


#143919 06/17/05 03:35 PM
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Once again I am late to the discussion but here's my two cents. The "-oid" suffix is used as a diminutive, probably because the more "proper" diminutive suffixes (factette, factling, factin) sound funny. The Spanish diminutive "-ito" would work well here IMO but factoid gets the job done too.


#143920 06/17/05 05:09 PM
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"And finally, despite what CNN thinks, a factoid is not a small, random fact. That would be a factlet or factette or, for our Latino friends, a factito."

~Matthew Alice, Straight from the Hip, San Diego Reader, December 2000.

http://www.sdreader.com/php/ma_show.php?id=120200B

O Boyo



#143921 06/18/05 10:14 PM
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How perfectly he destroys his own case by describing his own assertion:

an assertion that is presented as a fact, that many people believe is a fact, but isn’t a fact.




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