The Awesome Words Thread -

MA · #**361** 01-27-2011, 05:26 PM

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so a word you made up is acceptable but the names of alien races on startrek and doctor who aren't?

i don't think he was actually saying that was an acceptable word, he was using it to make a point that longer isn't always better. that's what he keeps telling me.

Phylum · #**362** 01-27-2011, 05:54 PM

If anything he wrote it with the intent of it not being taken as a word to prove that infinitely long combinations of Greek suffixes and prefixes are stupid.

MA · #**363** 01-27-2011, 05:56 PM

so there.

LDG519 · #**364** 01-27-2011, 06:31 PM

fare enough but I don't think words from scifi shows should be excluded, I can understand excluding that supercallafradulisticexpialladochias (havent got a clue how to spell that) but klingon, vulcan, farangi, and dalek actually have meaning, but if you say there not acceptable then I shall not post any more names of species in sifi shows.

enchilado · #**365** 01-27-2011, 08:21 PM

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I can understand excluding that supercallafradulisticexpialladochias

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but klingon, vulcan, farangi, and dalek actually have meaning

YOU HAVEN'T BEEN WATCHING YOUR MARY POPPINS HAVE YOU MATE

Phylum · #**366** 01-27-2011, 10:44 PM

Supercalafragulisticexpialedocious has a meaning, even though the sound of it may be quite atrocious.

EDIT: By which I mean "even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious."

LDG519 · #**367** 01-27-2011, 10:53 PM

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YOU HAVEN'T BEEN WATCHING YOUR MARY POPPINS HAVE YOU MATE

I know it is a song in mary poppins but I thought it was just that and that it didn't mean anything.

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Supercalafragulisticexpialedocious has a meaning, even though the sound of it may be quite atrocious.

what does it mean?

MeechMunchie · #**368** 01-27-2011, 11:36 PM

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If anything he wrote it with the intent of it not being taken as a word to prove that infinitely long combinations of Greek suffixes and prefixes are stupid.

That's correct. 10 points to Gryffindor.

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I know it is a song in mary poppins but I thought it was just that and that it didn't mean anything. what does it mean?

It's something you say when you don't know what to say!

Phylum · #**369** 01-27-2011, 11:44 PM

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay.

MeechMunchie · #**370** 01-27-2011, 11:58 PM

EDIT: Nah, not funny.

Dixanadu · #**371** 01-28-2011, 06:17 AM

If a red squiggly line underlines it in Microsoft Word...not a word. Dalek isn't a word, but...Vulcan and Klingon are. O_o

***Nate*** · #**372** 01-28-2011, 03:39 PM

I think we should restrict this thread to words that are playable in Scrabble. Thus, proper nouns (whether fictional or not) are not allowed.

Dixanadu · #**373** 01-28-2011, 04:09 PM

NO.

MW is GOD.

***Nate*** · #**374** 01-28-2011, 10:11 PM

Dixanadu · #**375** 01-29-2011, 06:25 AM

Microsoft Word, brah.

Wings of Fire · #**376** 01-29-2011, 06:39 AM

It's MSWord, or if you're not a retard, Word. M is not an acceptable acronym for Microsoft.

LDG519 · #**377** 01-29-2011, 01:28 PM

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NO.

MW is GOD.

I think we should stick to what nate said as I have been using the "add to dictionary" function for years so things that come up wrong on yours may not on mine, for example dalek doesn't have a squigly line under it in my one, also what about people with open office, nates way solves these problems

Elmatto753 · #**378** 01-29-2011, 01:33 PM

Brilliant. Now I have to dig out my scrabble dictionary (4th edition I believe).

Mudokon_Master · #**379** 01-29-2011, 01:37 PM

I believe these are all real words.

MeechMunchie · #**380** 01-30-2011, 03:00 AM

Haberdashery.

Dixanadu · #**381** 01-30-2011, 06:19 AM

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I think we should stick to what nate said as I have been using the "add to dictionary" function for years so things that come up wrong on yours may not on mine, for example dalek doesn't have a squigly line under it in my one, also what about people with open office, nates way solves these problems

Don't add them, then. Because they're not words and sound gay.

***Nate*** · #**382** 01-30-2011, 04:33 PM

An interesting article about some of the options for the longest word. I agree with his reasons for rejecting several of the words, but strongly disagree with his final conclusion.

Also, I didn't know that 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' was made up by Shakespeare.

Dixanadu · #**383** 01-30-2011, 04:35 PM

REAPERS.

Manco · #**384** 01-31-2011, 12:54 AM

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Also, I didn't know that 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' was made up by Shakespear.

You'd be surprised to see exactly how many words he made up.

Not included in that list: eyeballs. Shakespeare invented the word "eyeballs".

MeechMunchie · #**385** 01-31-2011, 01:39 AM

You'd be surprised how often you're Quoting Shakespeare.

Ruffle & Dufflecoat.

***Nate*** · #**386** 01-31-2011, 02:08 AM

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You'd be surprised to see exactly how many words he made up.

I really, really wouldn't

What I am surprised, though, is that I've heard lots of people mention 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' in lists of ridiculously long words without explaining its history.

MeechMunchie · #**387** 02-23-2011, 04:28 AM

Juices.

Dixanadu · #**388** 02-23-2011, 04:33 AM

Cull.

MeechMunchie · #**389** 02-23-2011, 04:56 AM

Slaugherthouse & Abbatoir.

Dixanadu · #**390** 02-23-2011, 05:12 AM

Irrelevant.