Vorpal?

[LL]

I just found out, it's not a real English word!

Did everybody know that, except me?

LL

[Tetsubo]

Only speaking for myself, yes I did know that.

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[LL]

Am 17.09.2011 23:45, schrieb Tetsubo:
> On 9/17/2011 3:49 PM, LL wrote:
>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>
>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>
>> LL
>
> Only speaking for myself, yes I did know that.
>

Well, you are from GB, right?
Close to the source of the word in a sense.

LL

[Tetsubo]

Nope. I'm a Yank.

[Harold Groot]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:49:16 +0200, LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>Did everybody know that, except me?
>LL

What do you mean by "a real English word"?

Lewis Carroll invented a whole slew of new words for his Alice books.
(If memory serves, the poem Jabberwocky is from "Alice Through The
Looking Glass".) Since the books were very popular they became a part
of our shared cultural heritage. That led to some of those new words
being used in other places and becoming generally accepted in the
English language. This process is not new. It is one of the standard
ways words become "real".

If by "not real" you mean "It didn't come down to us from Middle
English", OK, fine. It didn't. Neither did words like Television.
If you mean "We know who invented that word", OK, fine. We know. So
what's your point? Every year there are lists of "new words" that
have become accepted enough for inclusion into dictionaries. It might
be new technologies that need new words to describe them, it might be
new slang that has gained widespread acceptance, it might be words
stolen from other languages whose use has become widespread in English
- none of these are "old, traditional English words" but when they
reach a certain level of general acceptance they get put into
dictionaries and are just as "real" as the rest of the words in there.

It may well be that Dungeons & Dragons was responsible for
popularizing the word "vorpal". Lewis Carroll did not specify that it
was a sword that cuts off heads in particular - just that a person
brought back the head of a monster (a Jabberwock) that he had killed
with a vorpal sword. Taking that sort of trophy is quite common
whether you kill something with a sword, a bow, a rifle or just about
any other weapon. Carrying back the entire monster can be a trifle
awkward, so you hack off the head after you kill it and mount it on
the wall. So the specific D&D meaning "a sword with the power to
behead" may be limited to D&D. Lewis Carroll just said

"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."

That's NOT INCONSISTENT with a sword that beheads, but it doesn't give
enough information to say that that MUST be the definition.

dictionary.com just says it's a deadly sword, not specifically a
beheading sword:

Main Entry: vorpal
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: deadly
Etymology: created by Lewis Carroll to describe a sword

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 9/17/11 3:49 PM, LL wrote:
> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
> Did everybody know that, except me?

It is most certainly a real English word. NOW.

It just WASN'T one back in the old days. Meaning before D&D.


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[George W Harris]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:49:16 +0200, LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
>Did everybody know that, except me?

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html


>
>LL
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[dr...@bin.sh]

Alien mind control rays made LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
> Did everybody know that, except me?

of course it's a real english word.
has been since it was invented.

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[Tetsubo]

On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>
> of course it's a real english word.
> has been since it was invented.
>

Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.

[dr...@bin.sh]

Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo <tet...@comcast.net> write:
> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>
>> of course it's a real english word.
>> has been since it was invented.
>
> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.

english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark alleys
and rolling them for loose vocabulary.

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[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:j52t0b$ehu$1@dont-
email.me:

> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
> Did everybody know that, except me?

Pretty much, yeah.

--
Terry Austin

Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole. - David
Bilek

Yeah, I had Terry confused with Hannibal Lecter. - Mike Schilling

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

dr...@bin.sh wrote in
news:4e7578b1$0$74946$8046...@newsreader.iphouse.net:

> Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo <tet...@comcast.net>
> write:
>> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid>
>>> write:
>>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>>
>>> of course it's a real english word.
>>> has been since it was invented.
>>
>> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.
>
> english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark alleys
> and rolling them for loose vocabulary.
>

Let's go get the quote right, at least:

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is
that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not
only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased
other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and
rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."

—James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

[Thomas Prufer]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:49:16 +0200, LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
>Did everybody know that, except me?

So -- chortle about it...


Thomas Prufer

[LL]

Am 18.09.2011 06:23, schrieb dr...@bin.sh:
> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>
> of course it's a real english word.
> has been since it was invented.
>

merriam-webster.com:
vorpal
The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary.

dictionary.com:

Main Entry: vorpal
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: deadly
Etymology: created by Lewis Carroll to describe a sword

Half-real?

:-)

LL

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 9/18/11 12:50 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
> Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo<tet...@comcast.net> write:
>> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
>>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>>
>>> of course it's a real english word.
>>> has been since it was invented.
>>
>> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.
>
> english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark alleys
> and rolling them for loose vocabulary.
>

Credit James Nicoll for his quote, even though you slightly mangled it!

[Ubiquitous]

In article <j52t0b$ehu$1...@dont-email.me>, Loren...@invalid.invalid
wrote:

>I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>Did everybody know that, except me?

It originated in Lewis Carroll's "The Jabberwocky", right?

--
"If Barack Obama isn't careful, he will become the Jimmy Carter of the
21st century."

[dr...@bin.sh]

Alien mind control rays made "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> write:
> On 9/18/11 12:50 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>> Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo<tet...@comcast.net> write:
>>> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>>>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid> write:
>>>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>>>
>>>> of course it's a real english word.
>>>> has been since it was invented.
>>>
>>> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.
>>
>> english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark alleys
>> and rolling them for loose vocabulary.
>
> Credit James Nicoll for his quote, even though you slightly mangled it!

not just slightly, at that.
i've never come across the original, only other mangled versions.

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[tussock]

LL wrote:

> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
> Did everybody know that, except me?

Yes, I believe so. EGG liked the poem of nonsense words and made a magic
item for it. He also made D&D things for lots of other authors he liked,
Paladins, Rangers, lots of the spells, items, monsters, ....

Really should read more of the old appendix N sometime.

--
tussock

[Joanna Rowland Stuart]

In article <j52t0b$ehu$1...@dont-email.me>, Loren...@invalid.invalid (LL)
wrote:

> *From:* LL <Loren...@invalid.invalid>
> *Date:* Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:49:16 +0200

>
> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>
> Did everybody know that, except me?
>
> LL
>

Define "real"

C.S. Lewis introduced the word in his poem "Jabberwocky".

Many English words would not now exist were it not for William
Shakespeare, who created a great many neologisms in his plays.

Nobody has suggested that those words are not "real" even though many are
no longer common currency.

Cheers
Joanna

[Anonymous Jack]

On Sep 18, 8:26 pm, jrowlandstu...@cix.co.uk (Joanna Rowland Stuart)
wrote:
> In article <j52t0b$eh...@dont-email.me>,

> Many English words would not now exist were it not for William
> Shakespeare, who created a great many neologisms in his plays.

"Neologisms"? You just made that word up, didn't you?

;-)

"Boojum" (from wikipedia) -
In the physics of superfluidity, a boojum is a geometric pattern on
the surface of one of the phases of superfluid helium-3, whose motion
can result in the decay of a supercurrent. A boojum can result from a
monopole singularity in the bulk of the liquid being drawn to, and
then "pinned" on a surface. Although superfluid helium-3 only exists
within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero, boojums have
also been observed forming in various liquid crystals at room
temperature.

The boojum was named by David Mermin of Cornell University in 1976. He
was inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark. As in
the poem, the appearance of a boojum can cause something (in this
case, the supercurrent) to "softly and suddenly vanish away".

and of course, there's quarks...

[Joanna Rowland Stuart]

In article
<c5ebd195-415d-4f93...@j1g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,

M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:

> and of course, there's quarks

:-)


Cheers
Joanna

[Jim Davies]

On the grave of tussock <sc...@clear.net.nz> is inscribed:

Anyone want to stat up a Giant Borogrove? Or a Fiendish Mome Rath?

--
Jim or Sarah Davies, but probably Jim

D&D and Star Fleet Battles stuff on http://www.aaargh.org

There is no God. But there is pudding!

[D.J.]

Charmed !
.
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[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>> In article
>> <c5ebd195-415d-4f93...@j1g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>
>>> and of course, there's quarks
>> :-)
>
> Charmed !
> .

That's strange.

[George W Harris]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:26 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
(Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:

>
>C.S. Lewis introduced the word in his poem "Jabberwocky".

Attribution fail.

[tussock]

Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>
>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>> :-)
>>
>> Charmed !
>

> That's strange.

Oh, give it up.

--
tussock

[David Lamb]

On 19/09/2011 6:06 PM, Jim Davies wrote:
> Anyone want to stat up a Giant Borogrove? Or a Fiendish Mome Rath?

Or a Frumious Bandersnatch? Larry Niven's "known space" had an
intelligent but manipulator-less species named after it.

[Keith Davies]

Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> dr...@bin.sh wrote in
> news:4e7578b1$0$74946$8046...@newsreader.iphouse.net:
>
>> Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo <tet...@comcast.net>
>> write:
>>> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>>>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid>
>>>> write:
>>>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>>>
>>>> of course it's a real english word.
>>>> has been since it was invented.
>>>
>>> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.
>>
>> english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark alleys
>> and rolling them for loose vocabulary.
>>
> Let's go get the quote right, at least:
>
> "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is
> that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not
> only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased
> other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and
> rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
>

> ?James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

"English is not a language. English is a bad habit shared between
Norman invaders and Saxon barmaids!"


Keith
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keith....@kjdavies.org condition where I have a seizure
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Echelon d20: http://www.echelond20.org

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

I'm down with that.

[tussock]

Jim Davies wrote:

> Anyone want to stat up a Giant Borogrove? Or a Fiendish Mome Rath?

Neither of those templates are applicable for plants.

--
tussock

[LL]

Meanwhile in real life:

“Fiendish” is an inherited template that can be added to any corporeal
aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast,
monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin of nongood alignment
(referred to hereafter as the base creature).

Ha! RTFM! Haha!

:-P

LL

[LL]

Am 20.09.2011 07:18, schrieb George W Harris:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:26 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>
>>
>> C.S. Lewis introduced the word in his poem "Jabberwocky".
>
> Attribution fail.

Yeah, it was Jerry Lewis of course.

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

No, Charles Lutwidge Darwin, of course!

[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

Keith Davies <keith....@kjdavies.org> wrote in
news:slrnj7hbne.ge...@kjdavies.org:

> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> dr...@bin.sh wrote in
>> news:4e7578b1$0$74946$8046...@newsreader.iphouse.net:
>>
>>> Alien mind control rays made Tetsubo <tet...@comcast.net>
>>> write:
>>>> On 9/18/2011 12:23 AM, dr...@bin.sh wrote:
>>>>> Alien mind control rays made LL<Loren...@invalid.invalid>
>>>>> write:
>>>>>> I just found out, it's not a real English word!
>>>>>> Did everybody know that, except me?
>>>>>
>>>>> of course it's a real english word.
>>>>> has been since it was invented.
>>>>
>>>> Which has far less impact than the ones we stole.
>>>
>>> english is a hooligan, beating up other languages in dark
>>> alleys and rolling them for loose vocabulary.
>>>
>> Let's go get the quote right, at least:
>>
>> "The problem with defending the purity of the English language
>> is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore.
>> It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on
>> occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed
>> them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
>>
>> ?James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992
>
> "English is not a language. English is a bad habit shared
> between Norman invaders and Saxon barmaids!"
>

So English is an STD? I can buy that.

--
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."

-- David Bilek

[tussock]

Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Charmed !
>>>
>>> That's strange.
>>
>> Oh, give it up.
>
> I'm down with that.

Bottom of the barrel, that one.

--
tussock

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 9/22/11 5:59 AM, tussock wrote:
> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Charmed !
>>>>
>>>> That's strange.
>>>
>>> Oh, give it up.
>>
>> I'm down with that.
>
> Bottom of the barrel, that one.
>

I can't top that.

[Alcore]

On Sep 20, 12:18 am, George W Harris <ghar...@mundsprung.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:26 +0100 (BST), jrowlandstu...@cix.co.uk

>
> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>
> >C.S. Lewis introduced the word in his poem "Jabberwocky".
>
>         Attribution fail.
> --
> "Doesn't the fact that there are *exactly* fifty states seem a little suspicious?"
>
> George W. Harris  For actual email address, replace each 'u' with an 'i'

Muggle. Squib. Find people that don't know AT LEAST "Muggle" these
days. And most will know "Squib" as well, if you ask about it after
asking about muggles.

Authors add words to english all the time. Some last for as long as
the cultural phenomenon they are associated does, others enter
mainstream usage so effectively that they dissociate from their
source. Such is the case with "Vorpal". Even though Louis Carrol
failed to provide a specific definition, the context was highly
evocative, and the word transcended it's source material and ACQUIRED
a specific meaning. It's kinda cool really.

Thank heavens we don't have an official committee to decide on the
proper Englishness of words used in our language. I like my thinking
free of bureaucratic intervention.

[James D Andrews]

Alcore was thinking very hard and all he could come up with was:

What about the official releases of standard dictionaries such as
Webster's and such. Each year there is a press report on new "words"
that have been added to the dictionary, thus officially becoming words.
Most of these new words are slang or trendy rapings of the English
language.

--
-There are some who call me...
Jim


"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

[Harold Groot]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:37:22 -0700 (PDT), Alcore <alc...@uurth.com>
wrote:

>Muggle. Squib. Find people that don't know AT LEAST "Muggle" these
>days. And most will know "Squib" as well, if you ask about it after
>asking about muggles.

Ummm... squib has been a part of the English language for almost 500
years.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/squib

[D.J.]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:26:45 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
<sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>On 9/22/11 5:59 AM, tussock wrote:
>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Charmed !
>>>>>
>>>>> That's strange.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, give it up.
>>>
>>> I'm down with that.
>>
>> Bottom of the barrel, that one.
>>
>
> I can't top that.

You could always String it all together.

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

On 9/23/11 10:24 PM, D.J. wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:26:45 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
> <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 9/22/11 5:59 AM, tussock wrote:
>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>>>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Charmed !
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's strange.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, give it up.
>>>>
>>>> I'm down with that.
>>>
>>> Bottom of the barrel, that one.
>>>
>>
>> I can't top that.
>
> You could always String it all together.

Well, that's your theory; I'd rather use my brane.

[D.J.]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:58:03 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"

<sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>On 9/23/11 10:24 PM, D.J. wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:26:45 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
>> <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 9/22/11 5:59 AM, tussock wrote:
>>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>>> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>>>>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>>>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Charmed !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's strange.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, give it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm down with that.
>>>>
>>>> Bottom of the barrel, that one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't top that.
>>
>> You could always String it all together.
>
> Well, that's your theory; I'd rather use my brane.

Augh ! I am worested !

[Alcore]

On Sep 23, 4:23 pm, James D Andrews <jamesdandr...@att.net> wrote:
> Alcore was thinking very hard and all he could come up with was:

[snip]

> > Thank heavens we don't have an official committee to decide on the
> > proper Englishness of words used in our language.  I like my thinking
> > free of bureaucratic intervention.
>
> What about the official releases of standard dictionaries such as
> Webster's and such.  Each year there is a press report on new "words"
> that have been added to the dictionary, thus officially becoming words.
>  Most of these new words are slang or trendy rapings of the English
> language.

[snip]

That's rather the point though. There is no official dictionary. Go
publish your own if you don't like the one you're using. Of course,
you'll have to pitch it in the face of public trends. A dictionary is
only as useful as the consensus agreement that it is. There's nothing
"official" about such a thing, but the public has done wierder
things. (Take "Jersey Shore" for instance.)

Now if you happen to be French...

Blech.

[Roger A Lighty]

On 9/22/11 6:26 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 9/22/11 5:59 AM, tussock wrote:
>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>> On 9/19/11 10:50 PM, tussock wrote:
>>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>>>> On 9/19/11 7:13 PM, D.J. wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27 +0100 (BST), jrowlan...@cix.co.uk
>>>>>> (Joanna Rowland Stuart) wrote:
>>>>>>> M8R-n...@mailinator.com (Anonymous Jack) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and of course, there's quarks
>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Charmed !
>>>>>
>>>>> That's strange.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, give it up.
>>>
>>> I'm down with that.
>>
>> Bottom of the barrel, that one.
>>
>
> I can't top that.
>

Top may be truth, but bottom has beauty.

ol R

[Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)]

There's not a particle of truth in that!