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it's a good thing words are reusable. -- nm

Posted by b. (aka starrynit) Feb 9 '12, 12:34

we'd have run out a long time ago.

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Posolutely. - Dr.Vermin Feb 9, 12:37 1
- I'm not all the way to the descriptivist side of the argument, but I'm a lot of the way there - Reagen Feb 9, 12:46
sadly though, that fact has limited our desire to create new words -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 9, 12:36 18
- this may be the wrongest thing you have ever said. -- nm - loosilu Feb 9, 13:11
- Really? There are so many new words and new uses for old words arising yearly. English is fantastically dynamic. - TWuG Feb 9, 12:48 3
  - Pseudo-related: in reading David Copperfield, I found in the first chapter how Dickens wrote "*headtilt*" back in the day: - TFox Feb 9, 12:55
  - I was gonna say, English words routinely have ten or twenty synonyms. - con_carne Feb 9, 12:54
  - 'And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response:' - znufrii Feb 9, 12:51
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- *nodding* -- nm - TFox Feb 9, 12:41
- Which is why the OED is so concise and fits in your pocket. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 12:40 6
  - I was just thinking of the press releases every year re: new words being added wherever. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:43 5
    - neologisms. - Reagen Feb 9, 12:44 4
      - (To say nothing of sniglets) -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 12:51 3
        
        I have used furnidents ever since I first heard it in the 80s. -- nm - TWuG Feb 9, 12:55 2
        
        what is this? -- nm - the amanda nones Feb 9, 12:58 1
        
        the indentations that are left in carpet when you move furniture. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 13:00
- I'm making a case for 'ponderings'. - Dr.Vermin Feb 9, 12:40 1
  - sorry to break it to you, but (google hit count spoiler) - b. Feb 9, 12:44
- nuh-uh. I make my own up all the time. -- nm - b. Feb 9, 12:39
- That's preposterdiculous. -- nm - znu si Feb 9, 12:37

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