Comments on: My Favorite New Word http://bunchofgrapes.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/my-favorite-new-word/ The bookstore's back and better than ever! Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bev http://bunchofgrapes.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/my-favorite-new-word/#comment-64 Bev Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:28:46 +0000 http://bunchofgrapes.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-64 Okay, first, fun word. I'll try to use it. Right now the closest I can think of is "I just had the most resistential day". My spell checker doesn't like that very much. And it's probably not proper use anyway. But now that it is in my head I'm afraid it's stuck there for the next time I have a bad day in the lab. How many of my friends do I have to convince to use it before it's allowed in to a dictionary? Second, I'll guess that your "POS system" is a Point Of Sale system? I read it as something else first. Okay, first, fun word. I’ll try to use it. Right now the closest I can think of is “I just had the most resistential day”. My spell checker doesn’t like that very much. And it’s probably not proper use anyway. But now that it is in my head I’m afraid it’s stuck there for the next time I have a bad day in the lab. How many of my friends do I have to convince to use it before it’s allowed in to a dictionary?

Second, I’ll guess that your “POS system” is a Point Of Sale system? I read it as something else first.

]]> By: knightofswords http://bunchofgrapes.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/my-favorite-new-word/#comment-63 knightofswords Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:35:00 +0000 http://bunchofgrapes.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-63 Presumably, since this word came from a humorist, there's a connotation here that objects really aren't out to get us even though some people think they are. And how can we know for sure anyway, especially when there's just been a long string of very odd events that appear uncomfortably synchronistic. There should be a lot of applications for this word in the sports world where people are naturally superstitious about everything. Malcolm Presumably, since this word came from a humorist, there’s a connotation here that objects really aren’t out to get us even though some people think they are. And how can we know for sure anyway, especially when there’s just been a long string of very odd events that appear uncomfortably synchronistic. There should be a lot of applications for this word in the sports world where people are naturally superstitious about everything.

Malcolm

]]>