Aug 23, 2006 09:44
nudiustertian (nu-di-uhs-TUR-shuhn) adjective:
Of or relating to the day before yesterday.
As with a lot of other dumb stuff, the British are to blame. I know it has less syllables than "the day before yesterday",* but if easy pronunciation and lingual efficiency (not word quantity) are what we're shooting for, then nudiustertian is out. I consider it a complete affront to the language I grudgingly share with those fish n' chips guttling simpletons. Britain, everybody hates you. They all love the U.S. instead.
*We all know how much the British hate syllables. I'm shocked that those fucking people continue to get away with reducing dictionary, cemetery, unitary, necessary, ordinary, etc. to diction'ry, cemet'ry unit'ry, and so on. As far as phonetics are concerned, our kids who are in speech therapy are far superior. Even the Irish speak better English.