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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 rehashed topic #3 - nulutative #169721 08/28/07 02:01 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass nulutative was one of the mystery words I posted here which still gets zero(0) ghits -- not even that one! (evidently these archives aren't visible to Google) -joe (google me this) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative tsuwm #169722 08/28/07 02:34 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Interesting word, coined by an interesting author. I would assume that nulutative would derive from nulutatus a past passive participle of a putative verb nuluto (-are) of unknown origin or meaning. I don't think nullus comes into play, save that it was some kind of mistake on Brin's part, because there is but a single l in the word under discussion. Hmm, my first WAG was that it was some negative (i.e., with n(e)-) version of ululate (from Latin ululo 'to howl'). Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative zmjezhd #169827 09/05/07 02:54 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass here's the context again: Among other important factors are [...] mental technique (e.g. associative, extrapolative, intuitive, holographic, or nulutative).. David Brin writes: In this case the word does NOT come from "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual Words." Rather, it is made-up for a very good storytelling reason. Sometimes, the reader is supposed to FEEL that there have been new concepts developed in the future. Inserting a neologism is better than saying "they didn't know about this in 2007." I didn't mention Mrs. B in my query, but I did provide a link to this forum, so David must have actually looked in here. -joe (fact-finding) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative tsuwm #169828 09/05/07 10:08 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Talk about your egregious hyphenization. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative Faldage #169829 09/05/07 12:19 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont is that a request? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative Faldage #169830 09/05/07 12:44 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Originally Posted By: Faldage Talk about your egregious hyphenization. hey! what's wrong with fact-finding?? -joe (nothing made-up in my hyphenation) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative Buffalo Shrdlu #169834 09/05/07 03:39 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Originally Posted By: etaoin is that a request? *snortle* Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative tsuwm #169846 09/05/07 10:10 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Originally Posted By: tsuwm nulutative was one of the mystery words I posted here which still gets zero(0) ghits -- not even that one! (evidently these archives aren't visible to Google) -joe (google me this) friday I'll never understand the workings of Google® -- now that this thread is thoroughly entrenched with several ghits, the original post from the archives (dated 06/21/01) also shows up. honest injun, it wasn't there as of 08/28/07. -joe (whamboozled) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative tsuwm #169854 09/06/07 04:11 PM Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California Maven member Maven member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California Google works by having spiders creep through the pages, following all links. Since there's a link here to the original page, it's brought into the circle. Google spiders (and those of many other search engines) hit the pages that are most active, and follow links from there. tempus edax rerum Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: rehashed topic #3 - nulutative Maven #169856 09/06/07 04:30 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass what, then, is the statute of limitations, as it were. -joe (bygones) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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