That's quite prone to the opposite problem though. After you spend decades writing something it becomes difficult to review how the entirety of it interacts and the propensity to keep it the same is strong, if not only for fear of ruining some other component of the work.
@Cerberus The explanation I heard is that Illuvatar tries not to meddle in the affairs of mortals much. If I recall correctly think he did intervene somewhat though. Something about Gandalf the Grey becoming Gandalf the White or something.
@Cerberus An all powerful God probably wouldn't be very good by our own standards of morality, but then again I wonder just what the characters in The Lord of the Rings would think of Tolkien.
@Randal'Thor Yes, many authors claim something akin to that, and in my own, unpublished writing, reporting a stream of consciousness was my method of choice. The reality of the situation is that until a work is published, it is plastic though.
@Cerberus It's a word I found many years ago while questing through the complete OED in search of extremely obscure words. Been a while since I pulled it out to impress people :-)
And you didn't get the meaning quite right (but close).
I've been hoping to exemplify how a S.W.R. could be done well in a S.L.A. recently with just a dictionary definition, simply because answering the question requires expertise with either a great command of the vocabulary or personal experience with the context where such a word would be used.
> It’s listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, but they only have one recorded use of it from 1652 where the Scotsman Thomas Urquhart complained about “Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets.”
I wonder how many words there are in English containing two Q's.
It takes a special set of conditions for it to happen, particularly the dictionary definition has to be axiomatically applicable and the word has to be relatively rare, yet existant.
@Cerberus There's a taxonomy of sorts. THere's the dictionary word, and then there's the instance of that word. The 'instance' has a name I can't remember.
@Mitch I'd never heard the word before either. A bit of Googling suggests that the only (surviving) usage of it was in that very quote from Mr Urquhart.
@Cerberus I think for someone knowing around 35,000 words (which based on their blog, is fairly above the average number for even a native speaker) you'd know most of the Germanic words used in ordinary English SMSs. We can pick ten random Facebook pages and analyze the words if you want.
On the other hand, the precision of 34,400 does sound fishy to me.
@Færd yeah, precision is questionable, not necessarily because they're predicting based on only a few hundred words but because it is hard to know for sure a 'gold' standard: "For these 10 people we know exactly how many words they know, and 'cenacle' is one of them"
@tchrist So this lends weight to the idea that Tolkien wrote himself into the book. "Who are you, Master?" "Don’t you know my name yet? That’s the only answer."
I downloaded the H.T.M.L. file for a wildcard search Noah Webster's dictionary from A.R.T.F.L. Project. Now that's incomplete but in the 1828 edition it detailed 65,000~ entries. The second edition added about five thousand more words.
@Randal'Thor It's text processing vocabulary: word, term, Is that what that was supposed to be? Isn't that a Mouli? (for Moulinex) People spell it mooli in English?
> From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”), equivalent to ge- + man; or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”), equivalent to ge- + mind.
Cognate with Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related…
Speaking of which, it seems like correspondence is much more active than it was when I joined a year ago. I used to join the chatroom and see people weren't posting messages in here for hours.
@Cerberus I am displeased with the understanding of this language I have gained from my peers. I had to check a dictionary to know why you used the word cohort. v_v
around level 42 (out of 60) they start to get obscure. like 'fooz' and 'warth' and other words that look totally made up and were used by some drunk scottish pig keeper once after he stubbed his toe.
Quick question, how many people need to approve an edit? I just approved one and it's still the same, just with an overview about mine and the original editors stats.
I don't get it either, but if forced to think about it, I think it's just a game. and the more you play it, the more time you've spent on their site, looking at advertisements.
So maybe some money they get from the ads they send to their charity.
I don't think children's bones are being ground up to make bread because of this.
@Mitch Well, "often" derogatory is different from always derogatory. Anyway you asked me how I understood the word before and that's just about the sum of it.
Here's a good one I believe: Decomposition?
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