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News item: Mobster wields vocabulary in prison letters to son...Vincent Basciano.... some of his letters from federal prison...are full of such words as "thespian, "flippant" and "sagagacious.... coded message...? No, ...just vocabulary Basciano wants... --his 7-year-old son--to learn.... Basciano "enjoys using $10 words....' his attorney said.Thus the convicted mob boss is not all bad. What his representative calls the $10 word I call the Type-2 Join me in my quest to propagate the latter http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.ph...true#Post167207
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Flippant is type 2? And sagagacious looks like maybe 2½.
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I'm with Fald. flippant I've heard used by many, so that's a type 1 in my book, and sagacious I'm ranking a 3.
but good on the mobster. ain't nobody all bad.
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sagagacious? it looks as though dahil has foisted a pinchbeck on us. type-dord?
-joe (google[news] gives only sagacious) friday
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sagagacious? it looks as though dahil has foisted a pinchbeck on us. type-dord?
-joe (google[news] gives only sagacious) friday let's file suit!
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Fal, eta: I readily concede the classification could be better analog than digital but I tend to oversimplify as I'm a simple fellow eta: Thank you, I need a little encouragement from time to time in this den of iniquitous mutual recrimination called the Internet tsu: Please indicate which meaning you intend http://onelook.com/?w=pinchbeck+&ls=aForgive my density but type-dord???
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as you give such a multitude of choice, #26, of course. type-dord :: non-word, ghost-word - ron o.
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[quote=tsuwm]
type-dord :: non-word, ghost-word
-ron o. But I like it, you should assign it a meaning
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