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We've had our fun here before mud-wrasslin about the use of the word architect as a verb. I thought y'all might like to know I heard, this morning, the back-formed noun, architecter.
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Yeahbut ®, woodent that be spelt 'architector'?
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spelt 'architector'?
Mebbe. I jes oney heard it an it soundit architecter.
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Out on bond so soon? I assume they are considering the death of the perpetrator to have been justifiable homicide.
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and when, would you surmise, would one consult with an architector, as opposed to a good-ol' architect?
or was this in some entirely other context?
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I think it was being used to avoid confusion with architect, the verb. The noun architect has had its day. The usage was clearly indicating what was formerly known as architect, so your question, my dear tsuwm, is obviated.
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>The noun architect has had its day. The usage was clearly indicating what was formerly known as architect, so your question, my dear tsuwm, is obviated.
So, who's gonna tell that lovely lad from Loveland that he's studying to become an archaism?
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studying to become an archaism
Come, come now, Sir J. Surely, he's not studying to become a noun. He's studying for a profession, irregardless of whether or not that profession does or doesn't have a name for it that may or may not end in a suffix that indicates agency or not.
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So, who's gonna tell that lovely lad from Loveland that he's studying to become an archaism?
No need, I see it *sniff*. I guess I'll just have to succumb to the wave of the future and change my profile . . .
There is one upside to this though. I can officially say I'm studying architectorture.
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There is one upside to this though. I can officially say I'm studying architectorture.
Then that makes you the eventual architectorturist.
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From Merriam Webster on line:
-ure : act : process <exposure>
From which we can
A) derive the verb architect on the analogy of expose>exposure
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2) define architectorture to be the act of being an architector.
The study of architectorture sounds like torture to me.
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The study of architectorture sounds like torture to me.
You have no clue . . .
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and a female member of that fine and noble profession is to be an architectrix....
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Well, an architectorturoustrix anyway. A hooker with good but somewhat painful moves, I'd have thought ... there'll be a law against it, no doubt ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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an architectorturoustrix anyway. A hooker with good but somewhat painful moves... there'll be a law against it, no doubt ...
I'd expect her to build a solid case in her defense, though. And she'd be really good at selling her points.
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Sure, architector = architection...all part of the ongoing process to make everything an artless enterprise. Art is passé, a dirty word. Dilute it, exterminate it...take the music out of the schools, make an architect a glorified contractor. Art is dangerous, it doesn't fit the plan of power anymore. The last vestige of free-thought. Art and culture was once looked upon as a requirement to earn prestige as a great nation. Now certain forces deem art's extermination as part of their agenda's expediency.
Jazzo, I hope you become a great architect...don't you settle for less!
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the ongoing process to make everything an artless enterprise
The problem being when architects, in thinking of their creations as art, forget that they are also supposed to be buildings.
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Art is passé, a dirty word. What planet are you living on? You need to get *out more, Juan. 
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that lovely lad from Loveland
Wonderful alliteration!
And, um, couldn't it be said that someone who puts together something like, oh, for example a word site, is an architexter? (Naming no names, of course...) <eg>
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