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The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
jonesthecurl wrote:crabulous: an adhective describing interesting debris from the crab nebula.
Yunnanosauridophobia
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
ser stiefel wrote:
Yunnanosauridophobia: a made up string of letters by jonesthecurl in an attempt win an online game, which everyone knows is not a word at all. Furthermore this word-wanna-be was known to jonesthecurl to be a false-word at the time of the posting, and was therefore fraudulently submitted as an actual word.
Stiefelism <-- I am going to regret this, but in the interest of fair play I can take it!
ser stiefel wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:crabulous: an adhective describing interesting debris from the crab nebula.
Yunnanosauridophobia
Yunnanosauridophobia: a made up string of letters by jonesthecurl in an attempt win an online game, which everyone knows is not a word at all. Furthermore this word-wanna-be was known to jonesthecurl to be a false-word at the time of the posting, and was therefore fraudulently submitted as an actual word.
jonesthecurl wrote:ser stiefel wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:crabulous: an adhective describing interesting debris from the crab nebula.
Yunnanosauridophobia
Yunnanosauridophobia: a made up string of letters by jonesthecurl in an attempt win an online game, which everyone knows is not a word at all. Furthermore this word-wanna-be was known to jonesthecurl to be a false-word at the time of the posting, and was therefore fraudulently submitted as an actual word.
It's a neologism, one coined to meet an actual need rather than one looking for a meaning.
Just as Milton coined the word "pandemonium", Orwell the word "doublethink", and Carrol "chortle", jonesthecurl coined the words "yunnanosauridophobia"/"yunnanosauroidophobic/s", serving three distinct purposes:
(i) It enabled said online game to continue, providing a long enough "y" word to continue (not win),
(ii) It gave the world a much-needed name for a condition which may one day become common when cloning techniques return this class of dinosaur to the world and hordes of people are running scared of them
(iii) It enabled phobiaphiles to finally put something under "y".
Note: so far as I know, "phobiaphile" is a word which has not been used before, but, like "yunnanosauridophobics", it was a useful word which needed to be coined at that point. As was "netlogism", which I made up in the other thread, and which also has an obvious and necessary meaning.
The Tick wrote:How dare you! I know evil is bad, but come on! Eating kittens is just plain... plain wrong, and no one should do it! EVER!
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