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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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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. - Herbert Marcuse
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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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