
February 27th, 2004, 01:47 AM
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Second Lieutenant
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Re: When archers go bad! VERY BAD!
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Originally posted by Arryn:
Of course not. It's a newly-coined (ie: invented) concatenation (a five-syllable word meaning "scrunch together") of "smack" (as in "hit across the face") and "retard" (self-explanatory).
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Bah. Shame on you, Arryn. Given the other words you chose, I'm positively appalled that you should opt to invoke so quotidian a phrase as "newly-coined" when the far more sesquipedalian term "neologism" nigh begs to be heard...
(Very well; I'll concede that a strict tally of syllables hands the prize to the former. But 'tis a scurvy, untoward game that said phrase plays; had it decorum, it would unhyphenate itself and yield to the more obtuse, and thus deserving, locution...)
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