What a pretentious way to say acceptable. If I ever hear anyone using cromulent unironically I'll automatically think they're a douchbag and avoid them. Language is suppose to be simple so you can... IDK, communicate. Stuff like this is cringe and not at all based or red pilled. Downboated.
A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
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Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
#52>While we don’t yet enter cromulent into our dictionaries, it’s a perfectly cromulent candidate for future entry. Although the dictionary editors surely were hypnotized by their own humorousness, they ought not to have published that sentence.
Why not? M-W's lexicographers openly discuss their process of descriptively documenting language as it's observed in real use. If usage of the word "cromulent" continues to grow to the point that it reaches the threshold for inclusion, it, by definition, belongs in the (descriptive) dictionary.
If we hold the M-W editors to the standard of only using "real" words, then a contradiction is present.
If "cromulent" has not yet reached their threshold for inclusion, then they themselves should not be using it in casual language. Contrapositively, if they are using it casual language, then presumably it has reached their threshold for inclusion as a word.
For them to casually use the word as though it were real after arguing that it is not harms their credibility as arbiters of what words are or are not real, despite the comedic value of them doing so here.
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#54love made up words! this reminds me of "The Meaning of Liff", the "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet" by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd. here's an online version (with dubious legality?): http://www.lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt_with-big-pictures.html
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#55Oh, thank you for that.
Re: A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
#56What a pretentious way to say acceptable. If I ever hear anyone using cromulent unironically I'll automatically think they're a douchbag and avoid them. Language is suppose to be simple so you can... IDK, communicate. Stuff like this is cringe and not at all based or red pilled. Downboated.
It's hard to tell whether you are being sarcastic or oblivious with those last few words of your comment.
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#58What a pretentious way to say acceptable. If I ever hear anyone using cromulent unironically I'll automatically think they're a douchbag and avoid them. Language is suppose to be simple so you can... IDK, communicate. Stuff like this is cringe and not at all based or red pilled. Downboated.
And it is useless. Synonyms have subtle differences in meaning. In this case, it has no different and it's existence adds no new information.
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#59Next they'll be trying to tell us that "figuratively" means "literally" Oh, wait, they literally did... or is that figuratively.
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#60So... Is Embiggen a cromulent word?
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