On 09/21/04 14:00 ET, Anthony said...
so basically you are disallowing many scientific
words just because you don't know them and can't
find them in the dic? Don't forget that any book
is written in time and a the job of a dic is to
give words that are or were common. For any word
that is in there there countless words that are
not.
Yes, I am, disallowing words that aren't in an unabridged English dictionary. We have to have some rules Anthony otherwise we will have total word anarchy where I can say things like, "Anthony, you are being stipplenificated, which by the way means stubborn, but don't bother looking it up in a dictionary because you won't find it there, it's a word I heard an Alien use in Star Wars, but my friends and I use it all the time, it's widely accepted and readily understood where I live.
The dictionary, although limited to a mere 300,000 English words, is a fairly good collection of words any of which you are free to choose.
on the other hand, if it is because you think
there is some honour in this game
then it is trivial to put two words together this
way
300,000 words.
like blissful hemeroid that I am sure no one has
put together.
Now your talking Anthony. Except for the spelling of "hemorrhoid" that was an excellent combination.
