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Montreal Wanderer wrote:supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [sic] (you put an e after the p) is a nonsense word created by American songwriters - surely we are above that.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Ok, what about... Supercalifragilisticexpealidocuos? If one's merely califragilisticexpealidocous is one in a good place, or is one basically in limbo?
I'd say it matches our league position Monty, in so far as there's not much that is beneath us.
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True. Reminds of the sign a few years ago at Liverpool's John Lennon airport. "Above us only the skies" underneath which some Red fan had spraypainted "Beneath us only West Ham".Gary the Enfield wrote:Montreal Wanderer wrote:supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [sic] (you put an e after the p) is a nonsense word created by American songwriters - surely we are above that.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Ok, what about... Supercalifragilisticexpealidocuos? If one's merely califragilisticexpealidocous is one in a good place, or is one basically in limbo?
I'd say it matches our league position Monty, in so far as there's not much that is beneath us.
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Okay ok.
Supercali...etc, discombobulate x both out, we don't want no Americanisms round hyere.
Supercali...etc, discombobulate x both out, we don't want no Americanisms round hyere.
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What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
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There have been two concepts in my lifetime that go whoosh to me... Post-modernism, and Antidisestablishmentarianism. So no... whooshville.Prufrock wrote:What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
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They have legs... will they run in the face of Montyology though?TANGODANCER wrote:(ab) scond
un( ravel)
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(con)verse
(con)vex
(con)cave
(con)vex
(con)cave
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Lost Leopard Spot wrote:They have legs... will they run in the face of Montyology though?TANGODANCER wrote:(ab) scond
un( ravel)
Certainly not unravel as ravel is a perfectly good word meaning a knot or tangle (also wrote Bolero of course).
I think we can add abscond. From the Latin, the prefix Ab + the verb condo, condere - no equivalent in English.
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Hmmm.Gary the Enfield wrote:(con)verse
(con)vex
(con)cave
Converse is not made up of a prefix + verse - so no. Same with the other two. Anyway verse, vex and cave are good words.
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"Contradictory".
Now whilst some may wish to dic a tory I'm not sure that being in consistent is to be "dictory".
.... ^^^ & there's another "consistent". If you vary you aren't being "sistent".
Now whilst some may wish to dic a tory I'm not sure that being in consistent is to be "dictory".
.... ^^^ & there's another "consistent". If you vary you aren't being "sistent".
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That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.
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Nobody likes a smart arse Pru.
Just saying.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Prufrock wrote:That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.
Aren't cons the opposite of pros?
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Yes, but since 'con' is a prefix and 'sistent' is not an English word this must be admitted to Spotty's listPrufrock wrote:That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.
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Indeed, but here pro means for and con is short for contra (against), not con (with).Gary the Enfield wrote:Prufrock wrote:That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.
Aren't cons the opposite of pros?
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Cafe con leche, por favor....Montreal Wanderer wrote:Indeed, but here pro means for and con is short for contra (against), not con (with).Gary the Enfield wrote:Prufrock wrote:That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.
Aren't cons the opposite of pros?
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(Ar)ticulate. And don't be throwing ani of your Hindi stuff at me.
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(Con)geal
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(Con)glomerate
(Con)servative
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I doubt the first was ever a word as it is basically "how it always was in living memory" - the second arose in order to oppose the current state of affairs and the third arose to oppose those who opposed the current state of affairs...Prufrock wrote:What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
I am a disestablishmentarian...
were the current state of affairs to be overturned - then establishmentarianism would begin to make sense as a word - and disestablishmentarianism would drop out of use, as would antidisestablishmentarianism - and a new word - antiestablishmentarianism could possibly appear to describe those who opposed those who opposed the current state of affairs...
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