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| fairyfountain Senior Member Zimbabwe Joined 6134 days ago 254 posts - 248 votes  5 sounds | Message 17 of 19 16 May 2009 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
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As a former member of Addicted to Video Games Anonymous :p I'd say that coining noob would be even sadder.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6900 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 19 17 May 2009 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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strawberry: a regular noun. strawberryless: and adjective denoting the lack of aforesaid noun. strawberrylessness, a noun likewise denoting the presence of aforesaid lack. Thus, by one magic fell swoop, all known nouns in English can be immediately multiplied by three.
But wait, strawberrylessness is a noun in itself, so surely this same rule applies here too: strawberrylessnessless, leading on to strawberrylessnesslessness, hmmm, hardly useful for anything practical but who is to say it is incorrect? Unified European technology has already given us monster words like the _verb_ provision (instead of provide) and provisionned services (instead of provided services), leading on in a few years, I am sure as technology advances, to provisionate and then provisionationalise and from there to provisionationalisationmentationalizationalizationalated. Apply the same scheme to all existing verbs and nouns, and, after a bit of fiddling, to other word classess too, and before you know it a word count of a million or so will seem ridiculously low. Your friendly neighborhood scepticismationalizationatorationalist. Oh, and I agree with the forum rules: If you don't know how to spell it, don't write it. Edited by Hencke on 17 May 2009 at 3:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7021 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 19 17 May 2009 at 11:02pm | IP Logged |
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Forget about a word count of a million, we'll get to a million letters per word if we use Hencke's approach!
Yours tongueincheekinesssarcasticallynessly. Edited by patuco on 17 May 2009 at 11:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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