That's SUPERSPLENDILLYICIOUS!!
Posted on 07/08/2008 5:01:38 AM PDT by Coffee200am
Wouldn't "different from" be correct form?
“It’s the Moors, you idiot!”
beat me to it dammit.
FR has some of it’s own to offer . . .
magisterical
magcsterical
for bureaucratic political religious committee bound oversight bodies of larger religious denominations.
And of course a longish list of older FREEPERISMS
e.g.
FREEPER
FREEPING
FREEPATHON
etc.
Just doing our part! LOL.
You know, with a million words there ought to be a specific word for that particular form of a placename used to describe a person from that place. A “Mexican” is a person from Mexico. A “Canadian” is a person from Canada. Etc. So you are discussing a certain country, say Togo, and you want to know what to call someone from Togo. What word would complete this sentence:
“What is the (blank) for Togo?” meaning
“What is the name for a person from Togo?”
Togoid?
Togoan?
Togoite?
Lance?
I guess we’ve slipped the world the tongue.
As Steve Martin famously said - “Some people have a way with words and other people .... (long pause) ..... not have way ... I guess.”
How about “yuth”
That's SUPERSPLENDILLYICIOUS!!
Back in ‘55 when we thought we were hot because we knew 20,000 words we were informed that English has two million words.
Even before he's President, the Mighty O created "inartful"
I hope that's not an omen...W started using "misunderestimate" before he was elected to the Presidency.
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English is just a tool of cultural imperialists, and the result is the extinction of thousands of rare languages. /sarc |
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For an article about words, this one was oddly underproofed.
I think “different to” is proper British usage (remember the old saying about two countries — US and UK — divided by a common language!
When I was in grad school (English) in the 70s, we learned in a linguistics course that best estimates placed English as having 600,000 to a million words. I did have a lexicography course -- word count in a language isn't all that straightforward, e.g., do you count "nonce words," those that show up for a year or two and disappear? do you count localisms? when does a word with two or more different strands of meaning count as two or more words? when does a foreign word begin to count as a native word?
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