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So establishmentarianism should make the list then, no?
So establishmentarianism should make the list then, no?
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^^ That's how I read it.
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Has anyone ever been "vestated". Coz plenty have been "devastated". So would the previous condition to such a state of dishevelment (<<< see what i did there ?) be "vestated" ?
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Something/someone can be (dis)tinguished or (ex)tinguished. Can the same be "tinguished?"
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So establishmentarianism should make the list then, no?
aye - but not the other two!
(plus - establishmentarianism is not a nonsense word - in changed cicumstances it could/will be a useful word that would have an obvious and clear meaning.. though, should we ever do the right thing and disestablish the CofE - then I doubt the establishmentarians would be a very big/popular group...)
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Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
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bobo the clown wrote:Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
good call - especially if you consider that the root of the word is from the latin verb turbare (without the "dis") - which already means "to disturb"!!
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I think Spotty already claimed that along with perturbed.bobo the clown wrote:Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
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I'm completely turbed about that. Not to say entirely combobulated.Montreal Wanderer wrote:I think Spotty already claimed that along with perturbed.bobo the clown wrote:Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
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And so you should be, but vestated and tinguished are on the list. Yes.bobo the clown wrote:I'm completely turbed about that. Not to say entirely combobulated.Montreal Wanderer wrote:I think Spotty already claimed that along with perturbed.bobo the clown wrote:Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
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I assumed, though I did not know, that devastated originally meant to take someone's clothes off.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:And so you should be, but vestated and tinguished are on the list. Yes.bobo the clown wrote:I'm completely turbed about that. Not to say entirely combobulated.Montreal Wanderer wrote:I think Spotty already claimed that along with perturbed.bobo the clown wrote:Have you ever, in a moment of supreme calm and peace, felt "turbed" ??
Y'know, as per the opposite of being disturbed ?
Then I thought no, that would be de-vested...
Actually our word waste comes from the Latin vastus - so devastare is to lay waste. I think this should count.
Distinguished and extinguished come from distinct and extinct. BWFC certainly stinct today at the end.
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Can something be .... "asterous", when it's going well. As opposed to disasterous, as in our season so far ?
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No, I suspect this can be added. The original meaning of the word was an unfavourable aspect in the stars (astra) back when people had a stronger belief in astrology than now. As Horatio once remarked to Baranado: "As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, disasters in the sun, and the moist star"bobo the clown wrote:Can something be .... "asterous", when it's going well. As opposed to disasterous, as in our season so far ?
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thebish wrote:Prufrock wrote:.
So establishmentarianism should make the list then, no?
aye - but not the other two!
(plus - establishmentarianism is not a nonsense word - in changed cicumstances it could/will be a useful word that would have an obvious and clear meaning.. though, should we ever do the right thing and disestablish the CofE - then I doubt the establishmentarians would be a very big/popular group...)
Isn't that the case for all of them (and imo why this it's interesting)? They all (or at least all the ones where the prefix crcreates an opposite) could mean something very clear, but for quirky reasons in the way language evolves just don't. Like establishmentarianism .
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no - not really.Prufrock wrote:thebish wrote:Prufrock wrote:.
So establishmentarianism should make the list then, no?
aye - but not the other two!
(plus - establishmentarianism is not a nonsense word - in changed cicumstances it could/will be a useful word that would have an obvious and clear meaning.. though, should we ever do the right thing and disestablish the CofE - then I doubt the establishmentarians would be a very big/popular group...)
Isn't that the case for all of them (and imo why this it's interesting)? They all (or at least all the ones where the prefix crcreates an opposite) could mean something very clear, but for quirky reasons in the way language evolves just don't. Like establishmentarianism .
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To "tinguish" should be a word.
People of a very ordinary cut could be said to be "tinguished".
People of a very ordinary cut could be said to be "tinguished".
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Like that one.bobo the clown wrote:To "tinguish" should be a word.
People of a very ordinary cut could be said to be "tinguished".
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I suggest that you republish the list.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:It's on the list already.
That would help both the fused and the confused I guess.
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