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A Type-3 word for which the Type-2 might be "downy," or the Type-1, "fuzzy"
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fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
fuzzy wuzzy had no hair.
fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy was he?
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i dunno, hursute is a type 1 word for me, and for many of my friends and family.
and while i don't think i have ever used the word hursutulous, or even ever hear it spoken, i wouldn't find it an ususualy word.
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I have on occasion used Hirsute in conversation but never hirsutulous. Hirsute is possibly a type 2 for me. What would the type 1 be for my situation? Or am I still missing the point of what type a word is classified as?
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This is a Type-4 word , A Type-4 four syllable word.
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re: Or am I still missing the point of what type a word is classified as?
there is supposed to be a point to DH 'class system' that extends beyond his incomplete and not fully developed idea (of type 1 or type2, or type 3 words)?
Oh. i just saw it as a very personal, idiosyncratic, and not fully developed idea of classification that he obsessed about.
i have my obsessions, occationally i talk about them here. then i remember, they are my obsessions, and while they let others learn about me, (sometimes to my detriment!) they are generally only of interest (well, obsessive interest!) to me.
dale seems to think we should all share his obsessive interest. and make them our own.
he thinks because a word has no interest, or little use to HIM, it should have no interest and little use to any one else.
(that says something about how he thinks, doesn't it?)
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I have as many categories for words as there are words. So, hirsute is a category(hirsute) word, and hirsutulous is a category(hirsutulous) word. This way even neologisms have their own category. Great system and unambiguous. My questions are usually about category(category) words and category(catgeory(word)) categories.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Yes 
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> he thinks because a word has no interest, or little use to HIM, it should have no interest and little use to any one else.
(that says something about how he thinks, doesn't it?)
how do you get that?
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If this question is for me. (you never know) I would say:
hirsutulous is a word my Online battery of dictionaries would not answer to. That's the 4 for. Just playing Dale's game. Hirsute, I could find.
I can never know how someone else thinks. Not really.
To me all words and contexts have the same difficulty . The simple and the difficult ones. (and I can always be wrong)
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