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What's it all about? Alfear!
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Isn't this the neologism thread?
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And may the same fate befall your white horse, HL.
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Jackie thank you most kindly for the tip
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Ooh! Ooh! Show me up, willya? C'mon, Bub, it's mice at 20 paces!  Thanks!
Sounds interesting. I suppose the survivor could say that she saw combat with the murine corpse.
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 Confess I don't get the "murine corpse", Alex; but thanks for assuming I'll be the survivor!
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from ONeLook:
"Quick definitions (murine)
noun: a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae
adjective: of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) "
formerly known as etaoin...
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Pinker said "(tetrabarb?)".
no, Pinker said tetrabard. Shakespeare is known as the Bard, see? I'm sure you'll agree that you neeed to work on that reading level before you start coining words, okay?!
Damn, tsuwm, I almost let your sniffy remark pass unaddressed.
Look, spellchecker, your citation of support for the legitimacy of the nonce term "tetrabard" is, we can only hope, not indicative of the quality of the research embodied in your lifelist of worthless words.
Now follow this closely...
(a) Pinker (page 150) was making a funny when he suggested that a vocabulary of 60,000 was 4 times the 15,000 used by Shakespeare in his writtings and should be called a "tetrabard".
(b) Your single supporting citation was obviously a googlized effort.
No self respecting lover of words would cite a translation that took Pinkers little joke as a serious word tool. Shame.
(c) You neeed to remove an excessive "e" in the "neeed" in your post above. Unless, that is, you can google two sites that prove unequivocally that "neeed" with three eees is the trend.
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>Look, spellchecker and I would have let yours pass as a typo, except you 'typoed' "barb" three times in making your jocular point. p.s. - at no time have I presented "tetrabard" as anything other than a worthless word; but here's the other citation a used upon foisting this word on an unsuspecting public: "The total number of words found in Shakespeare's
collected works and sonnets is 15,000, and some of
these are hapax legomena - words used only once
in the history of the printed word - such as
honorificabilitudinitatibus, which appears in Love's
Labour's Lost, act V, scene I. Linguistic studies have
shown 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
On Dictionaries: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
http://accurapid.com/journal/32dictionaries.htm
p.p.s. - a good many wwftds are supported by OED3 and W3 evidence; often there is newer and funner evidence to be found by googleizing(sp?). Some few wwftds have no "real" dictionary evidence; but in these cases I almost always expiscate some legitimate looking online evidence. There have been exceptions; I mark these as questionable or jocular. Also, I've found many good citations using Google(Books).
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googleizing(sp?). Oh! If you can biblieographize, can you then also googlies? Ick--no, you can't: it looks like goo-glees. Darn.
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