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[cheekbones3]

Think I should update for the nth time this weekend? Nah...don't think I could say anything useful at the moment. I'd love to say something, but I better let myself stew in my own crypticism/crypticness/crypticality/erm is there a word?

Good race by the way...nice crashes. Me happy!

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

Ahem. The word would be crypticness. (There's always a word!)

[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

Aww, come on! I checked my Collins Dictionary, and everything! But, I will bow to your superior geekiness knowledge, Ms English Teacher.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well crypticness isn't in my Scrabble dictionary either!

Here you are...

[goneril.livejournal.com]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=crypticness

Believe me now?

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

hmmm...okay, but that's an american dictionary!

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

What, so the word is illusionary? Not getting your point.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

just a different language!

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

pfffft! Ya big snob!

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

:O)

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[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

no, it's different, it's a fair point :P

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

It's a moot point. Whether the word is UK-English or US-English (or one of the many other forms of English - dialect included) does not negate or confirm its validity. My (light-hearted) snob comment is in response to the suggestion that its origin would decide if it should be used or not.

Do you think it does?

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

and do you mean illusory?

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[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

Damn - was verily amused at that thought, so checked... and both words exist.

God, I've got to get a life.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Yes. :O)

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

Ha, my downfall is not so easily brought about!

I bet you slow down at car accidents, too.

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[goneril.livejournal.com]

Illusionary is the american equivalent of illusory. I used it quite deliberately for effect.

Point is, the english language, much like tv, is evolving (though thankfully not to the sounds of Coldplay). New words come into usage all the time, just as old ones die. Just the other day someone was wondering why you can be wistful but not full of wist. Well, you could be in the fifteenth century, but now you're just full of intent. And with english being the popular language it is, chances are people other than us are going to come up with some new words along the way.

And the only place I change my mind on this is when they spell colour and humour wrong. ;)

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well indeed, but why do they have to be such annoying words?! Makes me less than gruntled sometimes...I like English the way I learnt it :O)

[goneril.livejournal.com]

Ok, you check the dictionary and I'm the geek? Righto!

[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

Okay, it wasn't just me... back up yer claims of the existence of a non-existent word, hon'.

[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

Damn, you did.

[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

*mutters something inaudible about linking to a dictionary website*

[goneril.livejournal.com]

I was forced into it!!!

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Not always! Why isn't pointful a word then?!

[sharmaya.livejournal.com]

Hmm, much as I'd love to gang up against the lovely pedant-girl with you, but there's no 'pointful' cos there's already over a dozen antonyms to pointless... like, umm, appropriate, fitting, worthwhile, etc.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

phooey!