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logodaedaly /LAHG uh DED uh lee/

Or /LOG o DEED uh li/* depending on where you went to school.

I'm tempted to invent a word underquote, a portmanteau with undercut, or cut the ground from under, but alas the meaning/pun isn't obvious enough.

* I have edited this... I thought I'd edited it before. Wha hoppen?


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tempted to invent a word

How about disinterquote - trying to compound the suggestion of dissing, placing into, and the original quote (whilst suggestive of disintegration)?


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How about disinterquote?


Ingenious. May I proffer, inspired by your work, malin(ter)quote?


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I quite like that, Max. What if it just used the mal stem in a shorter form - say, malaquote?


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I love malaquote, Max & Mav.

Also, for a *real word, how about "second-guess"?


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What if it just used the mal stem in a shorter form - say, malaquote

By Jove, Jeeves, I do think you've got it. Time to leap out of the tub and run naked down the street, shouting "malaquote"! That and get Faldage to use his connexions at the OED to help propagate the word.


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Would you use "maladroit" if you were left-handed?



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Would you use "maladroit" if you were left-handed?

Sure would!


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What word would mean "stop being a ventriloquist putting words in my mouth, I'm no dummy" ?


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A most excellent, serendipitous, and Archimedean word. Malaquote! Well done.


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