#2428 - 03/28/01 08:27 PM
Re: "stoptional,"
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stranger
Registered: 03/26/01
Posts: 3
Loc: Florida
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Thank you all for the warm welcome!
Your responses are a clear illustration of how defining a word is a subjective task. Have you seen the current issue of Harper's? D.F. Wallace talks about this.*
Like a true work of art, I am proud that the word I coined (surely someone else has said this before, yet it was an original thought) has taken a life of its own and that people are choosing to define it as they see fit.
*I haven't finished the article. Perhaps tonight?
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#2429 - 03/29/01 08:34 AM
Re: Not to be found by Mr. Webster... YET...
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stranger
Registered: 03/26/01
Posts: 3
Loc: Florida
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Another driving word--this one from my friend Brian: "nagivator" - a person who sits in the passenger seat of a car and tells the driver how to drive; (back seat driver)
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#2431 - 05/03/01 04:35 PM
Re: "stoptional,"
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member
Registered: 01/26/01
Posts: 107
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Welcome Molly Dodd,
I love stoptional too! How about beautumous - beautiful/fabulous.
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#2433 - 05/04/01 09:47 AM
Re: beautimous nagivators:usage and derivation
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journeyman
Registered: 03/12/01
Posts: 60
Loc: Oregon, USA
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My Dad used nagivator to describe my Mom sitting in the passenger seat, whether or not she was giving directions. It's become a sort of sly but endearing insult in our family.
And beautimous is the superlative form of beautiful, of course. It's the shortened and Anglicized form of the Latin expression "beautimus maximus," which is still heard occasionally in our household to express supreme and unequalled beauty. E.g., "Crystal, the pretty girl cat, is beautimus maximus after her bath!"
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#2434 - 05/04/01 10:01 AM
Re: beautimous nagivators:usage and derivation
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member
Registered: 01/26/01
Posts: 107
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When looking at spring flowers that take your breath away, like a grove of sweet smelling lilacs - That's beautimous!
Being involved in many Antique Automobile groups and attending many tours in same, I am always the navigator. My spouse needs both hands and sometimes both feet to operate said machinery and cannot include map/directions reading to the responsibilities. I don't mind the term at all.
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#2435 - 05/12/01 01:40 AM
Re: Not to be found by Mr. Webster... YET...
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enthusiast
Registered: 01/26/01
Posts: 275
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NAGIVATOR IS AN excellent word MollyDodd. I will surely use it tomorrow on my husband who will be such a nagivator when he rides with me as I drive.
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#2436 - 05/20/01 09:41 AM
Re: Harper's
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 6511
Loc: lower upstate New York
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Molly asks: Have you seen the current issue of Harper's? D.F. Wallace talks about this.Yep, there's a whiole thread "above the fold" about his article. (Gee, I should take my own advice and venture below screen more often!  ) I even sent a copy of it to a poor fellow AWADer who doesn't have Harper's available at his local newsstand. hi, mav!
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