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Awkwardfulness is. Long is not

blahblahblah — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:11:46 -0800

Pentasyllabic is. Edible is not. Some words refer to themselves, some do not - an introduction to the paradox of language and a way to amaze your easily-amazed friends. In a similar vein, you may already test yourself by using e-prime, but do you know the thirty-two eskimo words for snow?

webchick — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:23:24 -0800

Triplehom.com! A mindbending little site [sight, cite] designed for [fore, four] the wordsmith/word-splitter in you.

jammer — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:32:17 -0800

Word of the day: onomasticon.

mrmorgan — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:41:11 -0800

First it was safety scissors. Now we can all sleep safer knowing we are safe from dangerous words. Weren't schools rewarding honor students at some point, or is my memory bad? (via obscurestore)

sandor — Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:16:17 -0800

Apparently, the digitization of all words ever spoken by human beings would take up 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Or, 5 exabytes. How long will it be before my laptop has that much space?