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Aug 02, 2004 14:52

Suppose you seperated all the adjectives of the English language into two groups, those that were self-descriptive and those that were not. Words like "pentasyllabic", "awkwardnessful", and "short" would fall into the first category, while words like "bisyllabic", "long", "edible", and "hyphenated" would fall into the second. To which class would ( Read more... )

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spacemanspiffy August 3 2004, 00:23:34 UTC
from what youv'e told me "long" would fit in teh first category

also, pentasyllabic? oh, the full name

I'm septasyllabic

I bet the word septasyllabic has never been used before

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spacemanspiffy August 3 2004, 00:23:45 UTC
or tetradecasyllabic

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julia_loves_me August 3 2004, 01:27:28 UTC
long is not a long word, so it goes in the second list on non-self-descriptive words

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burnt_fish August 5 2004, 00:20:11 UTC
yeah . . . fool

boo yah

108!!!!

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smtass247 August 3 2004, 01:07:47 UTC
Oy vey.

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burnt_fish August 3 2004, 01:19:07 UTC
our ppl inevented that one too, for the record.

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smtass247 August 4 2004, 00:56:02 UTC
Would you save me some dignity please?

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