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A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

#31

Post by daveslash »

tantalor wrote: post #10

This story has no byline or dateline. Please don't do this.

This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform.

But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site? Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more as a "Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things". At least, that's what I lurk here.

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Post by mattnewton »

COGlory wrote: post #23

Is this related to the usage of cromulent in this submission?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28641170 >First, btrfs is a perfectly cromulent single-disk ext4 replacement. Or am I just getting that bias thing where because the word cromulent is now on my radar, I'm seeing it everywhere I look?

The later probably, cromulent was a word made up for a Simpsons episode about another made up work a while back

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

#35

Post by dang »

daveslash wrote: post #31
tantalor wrote: post #10

This story has no byline or dateline. Please don't do this.

This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform. But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site? Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more as a "Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things" . At least, that's what I lurk here.

I see it like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Post by lsaferite »

riffraff wrote: post #25
AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #4

See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thagomizer which has seen adoption.

"Grok" is quite commonly used verb which comes from a made up concept in Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange land".

Grok is certainly a standard part of my lexicon.

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Post by vincent-manis »

daveslash wrote: post #31
tantalor wrote: post #10

This story has no byline or dateline. Please don't do this.

This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform. But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site? Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more as a "Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things" . At least, that's what I lurk here.

That use of “begs the question” is unfortunate. “Raises the question” would be more cromulent, provided that cromulence can be compared.

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Post by JCVI-syn10 »

vincent-manis wrote: post #37
daveslash wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform. But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site? Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more as a "Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things" . At least, that's what I lurk here.

That use of “begs the question” is unfortunate. “Raises the question” would be more cromulent, provided that cromulence can be compared.

While some may accuse you of pedantry, I applaud your embiggening others' understanding of this common mistake.

Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)

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Post by hunterb123 »

daveslash wrote: post #31
tantalor wrote: post #10

This story has no byline or dateline. Please don't do this.

This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform. But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site? Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more as a "Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things" . At least, that's what I lurk here.

The cromulent way to describe HN is "news aggregator".
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