August 1, 2011 at 10:10 am
WOTD - alternative
August 1, 2011 at 12:20 pm
crookj (8/1/2011)
WOTD - alternative
energy
August 1, 2011 at 3:14 pm
bopeavy (8/1/2011)
sesquipedalian
That is a failed word, one of Quintus Horatius Flaccus's more pedestrian attempts at invention.
If "sesquipedalian" were sesquipedalian, it would have fewer syllables. Unless you believe in rubbish like tetrabrachs, paeons, choriambs, antipasts, and epitrites, all of which utterly fail the Occam's razor test.
Tom
August 1, 2011 at 3:30 pm
bopeavy (8/1/2011)
SQLRNNR (8/1/2011)
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I guess sesquipedalian was too long a word.
today is too long a word
It actually means characterized by long words.
That's a strange shift in meaning. "Today" always used to mean "this day that's happening now". 😀
Of course "sesquipedalian" has changed its meaning too. It used to mean characterised by hypermetrical syllables (ie verse where the metrical feet in poetry would have an extra syllable now and again). This was regarded by the classical latin poet who coined the term as a nasty unpoetical sin, but became extremely common for the final foot of a line in early modern French poetry (and persists still in modern times - undetectable in modern Parisian French pronunciation, but loud and clear in southern France; and even in Paris, rhyming a sesquipod with an ordinary pod is regarded as abhorrent practise, despite the distinction being inaudible). Some of us :alien: (not just classicists and poets, but mathematicians like me too) still think its main meaning is hypermetric, although the "long words" meaning is certainly there too.
Tom
August 2, 2011 at 9:28 am
security
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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August 2, 2011 at 9:32 am
WOTD - clarity
August 2, 2011 at 10:19 am
Tom.Thomson (8/1/2011)
bopeavy (8/1/2011)
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sesquipedalian
That is a failed word, one of Quintus Horatius Flaccus's more pedestrian attempts at invention.
If "sesquipedalian" were sesquipedalian, it would have fewer syllables. Unless you believe in rubbish like tetrabrachs, paeons, choriambs, antipasts, and epitrites, all of which utterly fail the Occam's razor test.
Tom
Tom.Thomson (8/1/2011)
bopeavy (8/1/2011)
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bopeavy (8/1/2011)
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I guess sesquipedalian was too long a word.
today is too long a word
It actually means characterized by long words.
That's a strange shift in meaning. "Today" always used to mean "this day that's happening now".
Of course "sesquipedalian" has changed its meaning too. It used to mean characterised by hypermetrical syllables (ie verse where the metrical feet in poetry would have an extra syllable now and again). This was regarded by the classical latin poet who coined the term as a nasty unpoetical sin, but became extremely common for the final foot of a line in early modern French poetry (and persists still in modern times - undetectable in modern Parisian French pronunciation, but loud and clear in southern France; and even in Paris, rhyming a sesquipod with an ordinary pod is regarded as abhorrent practise, despite the distinction being inaudible). Some of us (not just classicists and poets, but mathematicians like me too) still think its main meaning is hypermetric, although the "long words" meaning is certainly there too.
Tom
Tom! I think that your OCD kicked in.
August 2, 2011 at 10:34 am
August 2, 2011 at 10:54 am
calvo (8/2/2011)
debtceiling (just go with it)
Morons
August 2, 2011 at 11:01 am
August 2, 2011 at 11:03 am
calvo (8/2/2011)
bopeavy (8/2/2011)
Moronscorrect
moroffs
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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August 2, 2011 at 11:07 am
SQLRNNR (8/2/2011)
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Morons
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moroffs
Noroffs
August 2, 2011 at 11:41 am
bopeavy (8/2/2011)
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calvo (8/2/2011)
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Morons
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moroffs
Noroffs
nandoffs
August 3, 2011 at 6:48 am
Revenant (8/2/2011)
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calvo (8/2/2011)
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Morons
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moroffs
Noroffs
nandoffs
Madoff
August 3, 2011 at 6:49 am
Daniel Bowlin (8/3/2011)
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Morons
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moroffs
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