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Edit: ooh, I just lurve a good argument! can't wait until we have one... 
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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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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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From Zed :It is possible to be obscure with short words but sesquipidalianism feels so much more sophisticated.
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) fridayedit: 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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