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Hey Stag_beetle, let's me and you coin a word.
Maybe tsuwm will use it as the WWFTD.
Here's how it works, I say ( "polybarb"?) meaning "many Shakespeares".
Then you extend "polybard" to a "characteristic" and use it in a sentence, like; The Elvis impersonators sashayed acrosss the stage in a manner that the great wordwhiz, Milo, has dubbed a polybarbian strut.
Then we become famous.
Or maybe you have to be famous first to get your stuff on WWFTD.
I forget which.
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Pinker said "(tetrabarb?)".
Then in a translation...
"....that the average American high school graduate
has a vocabulary of 60,000 words. Steven Pinker has
dubbed it a tetrabardian vocabulary."
- Verónica Albin, Tanslation Journal, April 2005
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