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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1036.1 | dunno why this leapt to mind immediately... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, & rarely on time | Tue Mar 30 1993 14:16 | 1 |
| dyspepsia
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| 1036.2 | curly | JIT081::DIAMOND | Pardon me? Or must I be a criminal? | Tue Mar 30 1993 18:43 | 0 |
| 1036.3 | Loanword is a loanword | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | Human. All too human. | Wed Mar 31 1993 06:40 | 1 |
| Sesquipedalian is sesquipedalian.
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| 1036.4 | Do these fit? | FORTY2::KNOWLES | DECspell snot awl ewe kneed | Wed Mar 31 1993 06:45 | 10 |
| Haplology: the property of containing a repeated syllable. So
the word `haplology' is haplological.
Esdr�jula [Sp]: a word stressed on the antepenultimate syllable.
These are not quite as immediately/physically related as the words
in .0 and .2, so I'm not sure whether this contribution will make
the string degenerate into a list of self-referential words. Still,
they sprang to mind as readily as `dyspepsia'.
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| 1036.5 | Obfuscatory | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Wed Mar 31 1993 11:42 | 0 |
| 1036.6 | Old, old question | TLE::JBISHOP | | Wed Mar 31 1993 13:06 | 22 |
| From TRIVIA:
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Note 405.8 The Final Frontier 8 of 8
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AHA! Kevin Harris is trying to lead up to Russell's paradox,
as given by Hofsteader et al.:
"recondite" and "polysyllabic" are true of themselves. Let us
call them "autonymous", as they name themselves. "Three" and
"lost" are not true of themselves, and we can thus call them
"heteronymous".
"Autonymous" is obviously autonymous.
Now.... is "heteronymous" an autonymous or a heteronymous
word? If it is autonymous, it describes itself, and thus must
be heteronymous, if it is heteronymous, it cannot describe itself
and thus does describe itself......
:
:
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| 1036.7 | might as well jump | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | Human. All too human. | Wed Mar 31 1993 13:36 | 5 |
| I am so ashamed of having started the degeneration into
self-referential words,
but don't you think tintinnabulation has a nice ring?
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| 1036.8 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vox turbae uox Dei | Wed Mar 31 1993 14:24 | 1 |
| Not for anyone with a tin ear or tinnitis...
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| 1036.9 | Since this is JoyOfLex and spelling correction's OK here :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, & rarely on time | Wed Mar 31 1993 15:08 | 10 |
| umm Dick, that there word's spelled "tinnitus" I believe... It's not
an inflammation or infection as your "-itis" ending implies (at least
to these ears :-) but a condition (of a persistent "ringing in the
ears") as the "-us" ending implies -- again, to me...
Sorry if this besmirches your rep for infallibility, but at least I had
the grace not to say this to you in =wn=, eh? :-)
/s/ the ex-audiology-researcher, Dan
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| 1036.10 | Oh no, not the comfy chair | FORTY2::KNOWLES | DECspell snot awl ewe kneed | Thu Apr 01 1993 05:20 | 6 |
| I spent thirty something years spelling that word as though it were
an inflammation, and then I double-checked a crossword I was compiling
and had to go back several steps. If Dick says there's an acceptable
`-tis' variation I shall weep.
b
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| 1036.11 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vox turbae uox Dei | Thu Apr 01 1993 08:26 | 6 |
| Relax, Bob. There's no acceptable -tis variation. Nor is there any
excuse for a typo in a case like that, even though the `i' key is
immediately adjacent to the `u' key... Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea
maxima culpa.
-dick
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| 1036.12 | :-) | CSC32::D_DERAMO | Dan D'Eramo, Customer Support Center | Thu Apr 01 1993 15:46 | 3 |
| Tua Macsyma culpa?
Dan
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| 1036.13 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vox turbae uox Dei | Fri Apr 02 1993 07:55 | 2 |
| Nope, not Macsyma. My home system is an Apple IIGS.
^^^
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| 1036.14 | | CSC32::D_DERAMO | Dan D'Eramo, Customer Support Center | Fri Apr 02 1993 08:16 | 4 |
| Wow...no comment on the "Tua". Don't tell me that was
the right form! :-)
Dan
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| 1036.15 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vox turbae uox Dei | Fri Apr 02 1993 10:42 | 11 |
| Daniele Aquaensis Colorati,
In re "tua" coniectura tua vera erat. Tibi gratulor.
:-)
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Daniel of Colorado Springs,
In the matter of "tua" your guess was correct. I congratulate you.
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| 1036.16 | | CSC32::D_DERAMO | Dan D'Eramo, Customer Support Center | Mon Apr 05 1993 18:49 | 3 |
| Thanks. :-)
Dan
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