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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Edit: ooh, I just lurve a good argument!


can't wait until we have one...



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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Smatter Milo, lose that © already?


actually, JFTR, Copyright applies fully and automagically to any creative work the moment it is created online. irregardless(sic) of losing your silly C.

-joe (©©©©©) friday

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gimme a ©, a bouncy ©

b©a©h©
© © © ©


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I'm getting © sick.

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Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic
I'm getting © sick.


Me too, Anna. Your Faldage has offered to send me a keyboard with a encircled "c" on it if I send him $100 in cash. Until then he says I should addendum every post with "copyright pending"

What do you think?

[warning: copyright pending]

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Not to change the subject or anything but, unlike other purported longest x-type words in English, the longest word that does not repeat a letter does have a length limit.

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Quote:
From Zed :It is possible to be obscure with short words but sesquipidalianism feels so much more sophisticated.

ses·qui·pe·da·lian·ism noun
Definition:
long word: a word with many letters or syllables
[Early 17th century. < Latin sesquipedalis "measuring one and one-half feet" < sesqui- (see sesqui-) + ped- "foot"]

I thought this was a word made up by Zed , but it is a real word.
Not all different vowels, but long.Would there be a shorter word for: a word with many letters or syllables?

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> Would there be a shorter word for: a word with many letters or syllables?

why? I love this sort of linguistic onomatopoeia!

the one we should be looking for is a shorter word for abbreviation....


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>linguistic onomatopoeia!

I like the term autological that Hofstadter used for self-descriptive words (and heterological for non-self-descriptive).

-joe (Grelling) friday

edit: list of autological words

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like abr.?

You're right, sesquipidalianism is a funny word. But to get to write it without copy/paste will take some time for me.
(if ever)

And heterologicality? Oof!

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