Re: OT:Made-up Words (was: compliment vs complement

Ruth...you just need to get in touch with the hip-hop culture....: )
Mary
"Ruth in Happy Camp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Never heard either of them before.  You think maybe I live too far out in
> the woods?
> --
> Ruth in Happy Camp
> "CNYstitcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > bling-bling doesn't phase me, but bottylicious does...and yes, it
> > supposedly got added to the dictionary <sigh>.  Makes you wonder about
> > the youth of today....
> >
> > Larisa, only 30 and still can't get over the teen-speak/tween-speak
> > going on today
> >
> > MB wrote:
> >
> > > Diangular is a good new word--I like it !!   If that hip hop singer
can
> get
> > > a word  that he invented ---- bling-bling-----into the Oxford English
> > > Dictionary
> > > I don't see why Ann couldn't strive to get  diangular in there, too.
> ....
> > > Of course, she might need a little fame to pull it off.!..
> > >
> > > Would it be replacing diagonal????    How about calling one of those
> > >  blocks, that we call quarter square triangles , a diangular block...
> > > (two right angles sewn to a straight side? )
> > > I like that much more thean qst.
> > >  Mary
> > >
> > > "Liz & Allan MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >
> > >>Julia Altshuler wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Sometimes I hear a new or made up word, and I like it immediately.
> > >>>
> > >>Or a child coins it and it gets incorporated in the family vocabulary,
> > >>and spreads...
> > >>
> > >>Ann long ago used 'diangular' for diagonal.  Try saying it, it's a
great
> > >>word!
> > >>Liz
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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