Re: Spend the noun

Subject: Re: Spend the noun
From: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:51:16 -0400

That's what the writers on the Simpsons are paid to do... they invented the
words "embiggens" and "crumulent." I try to use these words daily in
conversation, to embiggen everyone's vocabulary.

-Wendy

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>wrote:

> Keith Hood wrote:
> > One time I heard a guy who was a member of some club talking about
> something that would be a problem for that group, and he said it would
> "disbenefit everyone involved."
>
> Without that kind of inventorilization we'd have no words with which to
> write. Where did all our words come from? De Vere the spear shaker
> couldn't have created more than about 10% of them.
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RE: Spend the noun: From: Keith Hood
Re: Spend the noun: From: Peter Neilson

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