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It's easy to come up with a perfectly cromulent definition for a made up word.
by murbard2 11y ago
It'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.