#59269
03/02/2002 3:30 AM
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Every so often I wind up in a conversation in which someone says to me, "I hope you won't be offended...." Since it takes a very great deal to offend me (or at least it used to - think I am gradually becoming less tolerant, as I see more and more just plain bad behaviour around! - inconsideration, downright rudeness, thoughtlessness, arrogance etc)....I started telling people, "Don't worry, I'm very inoffensible."
I haven't seen this in the dictionary and haven't heard anyone else use it. Has it cropped up spontaneously elsewhere or do I get to claim it?!
and if I get to claim it, who wants to help me GET it in the dictionary?!
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#59271
03/02/2002 7:05 AM
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But you could publish your own one-word dictionary, of course! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#59272
03/02/2002 5:10 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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But you could publish your own one-word dictionary
Which would have the considerable advantage of allowing one to find the entry even when one cannot spell it.
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#59273
03/02/2002 5:28 PM
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Whoops, I was assuming everyone would know what I meant - one danger of tapping out posts late at night when parts of brain have gone to sleep....
When I said, "Who wants to help GET it in the dictionary?!" I meant, will people who subscribe to AWAD or visit the board start using "my" word (I'm really bummed that it's been used before, I thought I'd had an original thought - is there such a thing anymore?!) - hence the usage would increase, and maybe eventually it WOULD creep into popular usage, and might eventually get into a dictionary.
I read the link about how long it took that poor journo to get "hizzoner" into MW. Wow. I have to confess, about that particular word, I thought, "Who the hell cares?!" - but that's because, despite all the citations he mentions having dredged up, I've NEVER come across that word - and I'm pretty well-read and well-, um, watched (movies etc).
But "inoffensible" - now there's a word we could USE! :o)
Although come to think of it, remembering my original post, maybe there would be less and less call for it.... :o(
But I do like the thought of a one-word dictionary and how easy it would be to look up the word....!
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#59274
03/03/2002 1:08 AM
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For publishing your own dictionary, see milum. 
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