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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: PetitMorte on January 03, 2006, 02:35:52 pm
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Ok, so I heard an interview on NPR the other day, and they were talking to a word-chick from Webster's Dictionary. She's one of the people who decide which new words to put into the dictionary. For the most part, they put words in based on common usage... If a word gets used commonly enough, then it gets put in.
So here's the part that made me scream.
One of the words that she's considering officially putting onto the Dictionary is the made-up word "cromulent". She says that she loves that word, because it's such a funny joke from the Simpsons. Basically two teachers (and the class) are watching a film about the town founder, and someone says "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." One of the teachers questions the validity of the word "embiggens", and the other teacher replies "It's a perfectly cromulent word."
Heeheeheeheeheehee! Funny Joke.
But the Dictionary Lady says that "cromulent" is getting enough use that they are considering it in the next series of official additions!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That would so incredibly RUIN the joke!!!
GAH!!! Idiots!
They Just Don't Get It!
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Maybe she was joking, and you didn't get it.
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So is the word "embiggens" going to be next? Or how about "sacralicious" or "flaven"?
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God I hope so, but she was equally enthusiastic about it and the other words like "podcast", and "tablescape" and "rightsizing".
If she was joking then a very very subtle joker she is. but from the sound of the interview, she wasn't.
I hope I'm wrong and am just being an idiot tho.
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You're hoping that the people who write the dictionary are funny?
I have read the dictionary. It ain't funny.
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So will Jebus be next?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons
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They should add kwijibo first. It's been around much longer than cromulent.
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It should be 'Giggity....giggity'.
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They should add kwijibo first. It's been around much longer than cromulent.
that's ridiculous. you might as well stick in "homer." i wouldn't mind the latter depending on its usage or the colloquialism, "pulling a homer." but if you add kwyjibo, you're asking for english riots.
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They should add kwijibo first. It's been around much longer than cromulent.
that's ridiculous.
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He's humortarded. His retarditty knows no bounds.
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He's humortarded.
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It's causing quite the stir around these parts. Everyone wants to use it, but no one wants to give Chad credit for it.
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So when will friggin make it in?
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Not before emmer effer
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You're hoping that the people who write the dictionary are funny?
I have read the dictionary. It ain't funny.
If there is anyone here who has read the dictionary from cover to cover it would be Chad.....
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They should add kwijibo first. It's been around much longer than cromulent.
that's ridiculous. you might as well stick in "homer." i wouldn't mind the latter depending on its usage or the colloquialism, "pulling a homer." but if you add kwyjibo, you're asking for english riots.
You thought I was actually SERIOUS?!
the real words surrounding qwijibo confused me over the seriousness. if you weren't serious before, does using caps mean you're serious now?
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They should add kwijibo first. It's been around much longer than cromulent.
that's ridiculous. you might as well stick in "homer." i wouldn't mind the latter depending on its usage or the colloquialism, "pulling a homer." but if you add kwyjibo, you're asking for english riots.
You thought I was actually SERIOUS?!
the real words surrounding qwijibo confused me over the seriousness. if you weren't serious before, does using caps mean you're serious now?
Talk slowly and use small words. He's got comprehension deficit disorder
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OK, I...thought...you...were...not...making...a...joke.
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If there is anyone here who has read the dictionary from cover to cover it would be Chad.....
I am married to a linguist. I had to do it to keep up.
Countdown to cunning linguist jokes... 3.... 2... 1...
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Blastoff!
So if she is a cunning linguist, what does that make you?
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You're hoping that the people who write the dictionary are funny?
I have read the dictionary. It ain't funny.
If there is anyone here who has read the dictionary from cover to cover it would be Chad.....
I tried, but I couldn't really follow it. Starts out talking about aardvarks, and ends up rattling on about zygotes. It's like the stupid book has a new topic every paragraph.
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See, no matter how hard you try, the dictionary isn't funny.
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See, no matter how hard you try, the dictionary isn't funny.
Chadtower reading anything that's not on thet internet is funny.
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Bah to that, I read a lot of books and newspapers. Gotta do something on the toilet.
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Blastoff!
So if she is a cunning linguist, what does that make you?
Hmmm - that makes Chad a hermaphrodite?
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No, it would make me the third participant.
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No, it would make me the third participant.
You are my hero.
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Well, it would if it were true.
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ever notice when they add a nwew cool word to the dictionary it's allready outdated and not cool any more
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cowabunga dude.
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ever notice when they add a nwew cool word to the dictionary it's allready outdated and not cool any more
Perhaps they should add a "coolage" expiration date.
"Best used by" ???
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If you have to be told, you shouldn't be using it in the first place.