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Discussion Topic  RE: Spell-check Syndrome (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
neveu: Excellent note on Portugese to French to English. A case where reality exceeds fiction, if ......
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Discussion Topic  Spell-check Syndrome (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Is there enough evidence to indict and convict "spell-check," for murdering the language? The NY Ti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bizarre etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Excellent research on "dupe." The "d" shifts from "du huppe," to become part of the word. Is there......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Thanks to wordnerd for another marketing ploy unmasked! The original list is updated. Canola is a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Italian (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
The earliest reference I find is to the movie by Fellini (1960). As a footnote from IMDB.com: "Ask......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is there a word for... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Re-contextification?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Italian (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Permit me to differ, wordcrafter. I take a vaguely negative connotation. There is a long way, in t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Likewise, we are fortunate the advertising geniuses (genii?) who used ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Excellent. Marketing euphemisms are red meat to the Wordcraft crowd -- identified and extended. Th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Italian (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
I am sure our thread-leader has gathered many wonderful contributions from Italian, the mother tongu......
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Discussion Topic  "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
To demonstrate the power of the word, I offer a list of old products, whose performance in the marke......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
"One wonders what the whistling wind Will bring us on the morrow Such sweet success as ever sinned O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
Thanks to BobHale for his patience -- I take his point about the current focus being on form "automa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
If evocation is the key characteristic of poetry, then I offer Donne's prose sermon: "It comes equa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: tipiyokti (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Kalleh: So kind of you. Glad to participate -What time (Eastern)? and How?! Thanks!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: tipiyokti (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Looking over the (very funny) Dave Barry pieces, I suspect he's taken a hard k as stand-in for all t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: tipiyokti (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
I fumble with ancient experience of an ancient language -- but the "tau upsilon rho, epsilon" form r......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pervasive coydogs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Reverting for a moment from the equine to the canine... Coydogs may be real or may be urban (rural?......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is there a word? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
There is an interesting Chinese word "guan(g) xi" which means "connected." It has overtones rather ......
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Discussion Topic  Unusual Word from Newspaper business (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
When I can't find a word, I know where to ask... The Village Voice (NY) writes today (8/17) -- "A ......
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