Posted by Proud Blade on March 15, 2000 at 12:15:58:
In Reply to: Not sure how I should feel....much text posted by Grallon on March 15, 2000 at 11:13:21:
3) It was a reference to a Simpsons episode, where someone made up a word, and Chief Wiggims said "(Whatever the word was) is a perfectly cromulent word." Apparently your elite group of co-workers and family members, who are mostly college graduates, have collectively failed to heed the wise words of Chief Wiggims.
3b) Hollarious is obviously a bad attempt at "Hilarious". The poster, who is probably about 14 years old, made a deathfull(*) error.
Sheesh. Shouldn't you Motorola guys be building better widgets or something? =)
(*): Deathfull is perhaps the most cromulent of words, challenged only by Soccermomlian.
> Well, I have sat here, at work, using the not so insignifigant resources of Motorola for two hours(basically getting 44 dollars for nothing) trying to find Cromulent or Hollarious.
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> I have looked in 5 different paper dictionaries, seven different paper thesauruses. As well as doing searches at over 50 internet dictionaries and thesauruses.
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> I did find two Internet sites that used the Word Cromulent...and in context I beleive it may be synonimous with legal...or something close.
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> So how should I react to this statement of yours.
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> 1) Feel sorry for you, for trying to use a word that is NOT publicly known(no I am not illiterate, nor uneducated) in a vain attempt to make yourself sound intelligent and superior...but you don't realize that language was created for one purpose...communication, and that the use of words like Cromulent or Hollarious, wether valid words or not, by virtue of their absolute quality of complete esotericity, defeats the purpose of language, thus making you sound like a total fool.(yes that was a run on sentence, it was supposed to be)
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> 2)feel humbled that you, probably by accident, came accross a word that is not common knowledge(I also asked all my co-workers, all college graduates, and all my family, mostly college graduates), are obviously much smarter than me, and that your ability to use such words to degrade my intelligence publicly is just astounding.(another run on...yes on purpose)