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Dearest Lily the "distasre for dictionary.com" Tyrannosaur,
this is quite the pickled prospect. See, I have only eaten one meal a day for 2 days in a row, slept a lean 6 hours per night and I have a free financial seminar to attend in the morning.
However, attempting to acknowledge your assailment on my attempt at allure with adjectives is asinine. And this is how I will prove it.
Now, the word trepid and all it's suffixes it is scantily documented other than Intrepid. But should that stop people from evolving the language, destroy the nuance of our elitist alliterations? Why, we couldn't go out upon the soft sunny spring days with a blanket, a basket and a bottle of your finest if we did not help evolve "pique-nique." We are helping to progress the language and we should do so with unbridled bravado.
Which comes to my second act:
atious vs acious
here we stand at a crossroads in our english derivational morphology: to T or to C, that is the ? Whether tis nobler in the mind to to suffer the suffix of the flirtatious fop or to take arms against a violet view so vivacious we would vex Venus herself?
which is to say, I say it's users preference.
Now, is this the part where I lay my postmodern cards on the table? Or do I just let you know that rarely do I take the time to research my responses, unless they warrant that kind of care. Please note that if we indeed continue this discussion at a greater length I will more than likely end up talking out of my ass (figuratively) as I have never studied etymology.
Addendumly(haHA), this is fair warning that I'm an alliteration addict. I haven't been going to the meetings, tho.
Triumphantly,
David
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Lily the Tyrannosaur
Date: Apr 28, 2006 8:37 PM
your headline says "trepidacious"
that somehow looked wrong to me, so i looked up the spelling.
the dictionary built into my computer says "trepidatious" but that also looked not exactly right. dictionary.com agrees with you, and spells it with a C. however, i have an inherent distasre for dictionary.com, so i looked it up in the OED. it turns out that it's not actually a word, at least not according to the oxford english.
i'm not entirely sure, but i think that means that i win.
hesitantly exultant,
lily
this is quite the pickled prospect. See, I have only eaten one meal a day for 2 days in a row, slept a lean 6 hours per night and I have a free financial seminar to attend in the morning.
However, attempting to acknowledge your assailment on my attempt at allure with adjectives is asinine. And this is how I will prove it.
Now, the word trepid and all it's suffixes it is scantily documented other than Intrepid. But should that stop people from evolving the language, destroy the nuance of our elitist alliterations? Why, we couldn't go out upon the soft sunny spring days with a blanket, a basket and a bottle of your finest if we did not help evolve "pique-nique." We are helping to progress the language and we should do so with unbridled bravado.
Which comes to my second act:
atious vs acious
here we stand at a crossroads in our english derivational morphology: to T or to C, that is the ? Whether tis nobler in the mind to to suffer the suffix of the flirtatious fop or to take arms against a violet view so vivacious we would vex Venus herself?
which is to say, I say it's users preference.
Now, is this the part where I lay my postmodern cards on the table? Or do I just let you know that rarely do I take the time to research my responses, unless they warrant that kind of care. Please note that if we indeed continue this discussion at a greater length I will more than likely end up talking out of my ass (figuratively) as I have never studied etymology.
Addendumly(haHA), this is fair warning that I'm an alliteration addict. I haven't been going to the meetings, tho.
Triumphantly,
David
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Lily the Tyrannosaur
Date: Apr 28, 2006 8:37 PM
your headline says "trepidacious"
that somehow looked wrong to me, so i looked up the spelling.
the dictionary built into my computer says "trepidatious" but that also looked not exactly right. dictionary.com agrees with you, and spells it with a C. however, i have an inherent distasre for dictionary.com, so i looked it up in the OED. it turns out that it's not actually a word, at least not according to the oxford english.
i'm not entirely sure, but i think that means that i win.
hesitantly exultant,
lily