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#158311 04/13/06 10:09 PM
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A googlit is also a googolplex to the power of a googolplex:




When I use the word googlit it means the number of hits gotten when googling a word or phrase and when I use a word it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. It's a question of who's to be the master …

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from the googlit link: This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy.

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You cease to be the master of a word as soon as you use it.

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You cease to be the master of a word as soon as you use it.




You cease to be the master of the word if you let it use you.

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That, too.

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Ghit® = Someone who uses the amount of google hits to determine validity.

Ghitty = The feeling you've been proven correct because your *suggestion got more google hits.

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In the BBC Television series "Red Dwarf", the characters used the word "ghit" (or something that sounded like it) to mean an unsophisticated person, an idiot, a dweeb, a fool -- something like that. I suspect it was/is a Britishism.

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I think that's "git".


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Okay, phonologically speaking, but did I at least get the meaning right?

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I believe so.


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