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Time to unlearn your vocabulary

 
 
Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2025 01:02 pm
Words are my playthings. You may have a similar inclination. Why, for example, is a sheep not just a female heep? Really!?. Why is a person coughing not a coffer or a coffee? And why the heck do they carry you off in a coffin?

On a serious note, why is defenestration not a proper way of honoring the clergy? Sure enough, a Google search brought me to the noteworthy actions of the citizens of Prague. Try not to see the laughter in slaughter, and understand the thesis leading to DefenestratedDictionary.com.

Humble, next to the work of Ambrose Bierce, originator of The Devil’s Dictionary, and less well known than others, my dictionary now has hundreds of entries and is in want of demeaningful fodder.

I ask my fellow a2kers to submit their personal dementia for inclusion here and on my website for fame and history. You will be appropriately noted. A read of the website shows the bar set relatively low. Please, though, avoid excretives.

NOTE: There are many similar dictionaries in print. No less than 2 knock-offs of the Devil’s Dictionary, The Uxbridge English Dictionary, Wiley's dictionary, and The Roycroft Dictionary, to name a few.

Have fun.
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neologist
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2025 01:15 pm
@neologist,
One of my recents:
Transpired:
One who identifies as deceased
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2025 02:35 pm
following
neologist
 
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Reply Mon 21 Apr, 2025 02:49 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

following
Happy to see you are still around. I hope you are doing well
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 21 Apr, 2025 03:15 pm
@neologist,
Doing very well for an 82 year old geezer. Hope you are also well.
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ekename
 
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Reply Mon 21 Apr, 2025 09:53 pm
@neologist,
Transpired: 2. Crossed over 3. Endered

Exegesis: Erstwhile prophet

Syzygy: Threewise alignment of a bipedal prosody

neologist
 
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Reply Wed 23 Apr, 2025 06:30 pm
@ekename,
OMG! I've been away from here, I forgot how to not do things.
I wanted to vote your post up, but now I've screwed it up

HELP!
ekename
 
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Reply Wed 23 Apr, 2025 09:57 pm
@neologist,
Quote:
Please, though, avoid excretives.


Excretives: A waste of words below the waist.

Please: An illegal gratuity to secure a lease.

Though: Through to the thick and thin.

Avoid: Shape of the universe after the cosmic eggflation ovoid era.
Emma2322
 
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Reply Wed 23 Apr, 2025 11:00 pm
Thanks for this post. At the age of 82 thinking about mistakes is rear thing.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Thu 24 Apr, 2025 05:04 am
@neologist,
Quote:
I wanted to vote your post up
for some odd reason the thumbs are currently invisible, but they're still there.

the up-thumb is on the left, as always...

https://i.ibb.co/B58HSfbT/capture.jpg
neologist
 
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Reply Thu 24 Apr, 2025 08:10 am
@Region Philbis,
Thanks
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neologist
 
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Reply Thu 24 Apr, 2025 09:17 am
@ekename,
Your word. First on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI1XRyNpAVZ/

Thank you. I'll get to the rest
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neologist
 
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Reply Thu 24 Apr, 2025 09:56 am
@ekename,
And
https://alpinescout.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/avoid.jpg
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