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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

538.0. "Now isn't that interesting!" by SNOC01::COUTTS (Brilliance is just a sideline...) Fri Jul 15 1988 07:23

    While wandering through the dictionary the other day (the plots
    a little thin but at least it explains every word as it goes along),
    I found this word
    
    Scatology
    
    Apparently it is the practise of frequent reference to human or
    animal excrement in literature.
    
    Can hardly wait to tell someone what I think of the next silly report
    etc I have to plow through
    
    Can anyone else let loose with a few more that can be used to confuse
    and insult at an intellectual level :>)
    
    -Alison-

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
538.1	... as in "coprophagous grin" ...	25414::KALLIS	Anger's no replacement for reason	`Fri Jul 15 1988 15:00`	6
	Re .0 (Allison): Well, I suppose there's "coprophagous," which would mean "consumption of excrement," if we sish to remain scatological. Steve Kallis, Jr.
538.2	scat*logy	ZFC::DERAMO	Supersedes all previous personal names.	`Fri Jul 15 1988 21:12`	5
	Re .0 In NOTES files, it is more polite to refer to it as excr*ment. Dan
538.3		PASTIS::MONAHAN	humanity is a trojan horse	`Sun Jul 17 1988 19:40`	2
	In this notes file spelling is a valed consern, and no werd in my dicshionery is spelt with an atseriks.
538.4	:*)	ZFC::DERAMO	Supersedes all previous personal names.	`Sun Jul 17 1988 22:41`	3
	By the way, what did happen when it hit the fan? Dan
538.5	eschatology	MARVIN::KNOWLES	the teddy-bears have their nit-pick	`Mon Jul 18 1988 14:33`	12
	This isn't really a reply to .0, but it's related in a number of ways. I don't have a dictionary to hand, so can't confirm (tho' I believe in it) the existence of the word `eschatology' (the doctrine of whatever religion is your bag, concerning death, judgment, hell and heaven). Nor do I have a Spanish dictionary to hand, but as I remember both words are rendered in Spanish as `escatolog�a'. If that's not confusing, I don't know what is. b
538.6	Logorrhea	YIPPEE::LIRON		`Mon Jul 18 1988 15:17`	3
	A diarrhea of words roger
538.7		EAGLE1::EGGERS	Tom, 293-5358, VAX Architecture	`Mon Sep 12 1988 05:17`	3
	periphrasis = circumlocution eleemosynary = charitable