[thelist] OT (verbage)

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 6 19:06:15 CDT 2000


> From: John Spencer
>
> I checked "functionality" on www.dictionary.com
> and it's there. It was found in the American Heritage
> Dictionary, third edition.

dammit.  i was hoping it would never become a word, but it
looks like it pulled an "ain't" on us...

what's funny is the subject of this very thread is actually
not the word it thinks it is... i hate the word "verbiage,"
i think "language" can often be used in its place and sounds
less like someone is trying to grasp a big word out of their
ass, but the word "verbage" is: "A deliberate misspelling
and mispronunciation of 'verbiage' that assimilates it to
the word 'garbage'."

note that the dictionary didn't even punctuate the end of
the sentence correctly... another piece of the vernacular
from the software world that is getting into the
mainstream -- not including punctuation *within* the
quotes...

but i use ellipses where i shouldn't...

... yep





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