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I could have sworn that it was a requirement to be able to define any word placed, but maybe that's just a house rule I internalised while growing up. Or a rule
by jon-wood 11y ago
I could have sworn that it was a requirement to be able to define any word placed, but maybe that's just a house rule I internalised while growing up. Or a rule since dropped from the 1960s edition we played with.
- vidarh 11y agoIt's a common way of avoiding/reducing the need to consult a dictionary.
- murbard2 11y agoIt's easy to come up with a perfectly cromulent definition for a made up word.
- vidarh 11y agoBut sometimes not so easy when you're put on the spot.
- MaximillianII 11y agoPlease define "cromulent"
- murbard2 11y agoCromulent, adj. legitimate, valid.
- poizan42 11y agoThe funny thing is that it probably has the potential to become so well known that people forget its roots, and then people wouldn't get the original joke in that Simpsons episode anymore.
- vidarh 11y agoReality has a tendency to make works harder to understand out of context... My favourite "I-feel-old" case of words that have changed meaning is this: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (William Gibson, Neuromancer) So, bright blue then... Changes the image quite a bit.
- panglott 11y ago...and thus embiggen the dictionary itself.