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"Isn't this a clever word to use to mean light output or transmission."
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Yes it is, wofahulicodoc. So why does the "google" entry change your perceptions?
After all, you are the wofahulicodoc, and google is but a simple mindless counting machine.
Strange.
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Quote:
"Isn't this a clever word to use to mean light output or transmission."
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Yes it is, wofahulicodoc. So why does the "google" entry change your perceptions?
No change in perception, just a description of the world as described by one counting machine, to be noted and filed.
After all, who ya gonna believe, me or some strange dictionary? [Scrabble-players' Lament]
On the other hand it would appear that my use of "beamage" is equally a retronym, though an obvious and appropriate one.
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For some reason, to my ear "beamage" to mean loss of weight or girth of vessel is elegant, and to mean throw of light, inelegant, though useful. A little too Simpsonesque, I guess.
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On the other hand it would appear that my use of "beamage" is equally a retronym, though an obvious and appropriate one.
So how are you defining "retronym"? Certainly not in its normally accepted meaning of a noun phrase with an adjective included for the purpose of distinguishing an old version of something which formerly needed no adjective from a newer version. E.g., analog watch.
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