Thursday, July 29, 2010

I've Had An Apostrophe! (Words, Part III)

I love how words are being manufactured everyday. But I love more that the scholars who create them have a sense of humour.

"I do not engage in literary floccinaucinihilipilification for the sole ratiocination that I suffer from Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia."
- Ethan Dornbusch.


Ratiocination - A formed judgement by a process of logic; reason.

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia - A fear of long words.



And penned from a writer much cleverer than me:

"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
- Doug Larson.

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