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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer (173): What does the -st word ending mean and is it used in any modern vocabulary? by yea on english.SE

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That doesn't look Australian. I understood it.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (135): What differences are there between "sitting room", "lounge", "lounge room", and "front room"? by autocad files on english.SE

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Those verkakte Aussies

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Matt E. Эллен

1:54 PM

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6668, the number of the beast

6.7 isn't quite as ominous

Mitch

2:11 PM

@MattE.Эллен You know what's ominous?

> Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: The irony on this one is strong. Comprised of words meaning large and monstrous (such as sesquipedalian which means a long, polysyllabic word), this 35-lettered word defines what it itself is; a long word, more specifically, the fear of long words.

THAT IS WRONG

It does not define itself. AT ALL.

It is an example of something that a person with that condition would be triggered by.

But it is not autologous.

grinds teeth

to a point

like Ferengis

considers ear augmentation surgery

everybody is doing it

Matt E. Эллен

2:42 PM

@Mitch seems to have triggered you, too!

Mitch

3:33 PM

@MattE.Эллен Triggers-long-word-o-phobia triggers fears of long words

Anyway, that article was written by an intern. Mostly references to "The Far Side" which is not a terrible thing to do.

Also not autologous:

Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes

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geekahedron

4:53 PM

"autologous" or "autological"?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Fortunately, after a brief skirmish, I seem to have gained the upper hand in the battle against my internal organs, at least until they learn to read and find out the mean stuff I've said about them.

@geekahedron Why not both

geekahedron

now I'm trying to think of an example that is both

Mitch

5:39 PM

@geekahedron Is there an example where it is neither?

Wait...

Are there examples of one and not the other?

geekahedron

as I understand it, the two words have completely different meanings

"autologous" means "having the same origin," to take a loose interpretation of the medical term

"autological" means "self-descriptive" the way we've been using it here

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен Oh, dear.

You must defeat her!

Programming in C Sharp, no less.

spits

geekahedron

ó.o

Cerberus

5:59 PM

@geekahedron I suppose this autologous was formed by analogy with analogous or something?

Because it's somewhat odd.

geekahedron

I think it formed from "homologous" and "heterologous" to describe the scenario, somewhat unique to medicine, of being derived from oneself

which, now that I say it, is a much better definition than my previous

Cerberus

@geekahedron Ah, yes.

Homologous, from logos in the sense "proportion".

Or even "relation".

Mitch

6:45 PM

@geekahedron Hm... I had alwys used -logical but recently saw that people where using -logous for the descriptors of words. But maybe the more recent ones are wrong.

Also, there's homologous (having similar origin, like an arm or a flipper) and analogous (having similar function, like a bird wing and a butterfly wing)

But in math, a homology (or just homology for the general study) is a mapping, really a functor, between abelian categories. But in math, an analogy is just fuzzy thinking.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That's like something Rutherford would have said.

If he was a mathematician.

Mitch

Oh Rutherford. You missed your chance

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Math sucks. – Aristotle

Mitch

Plato was boring - Nietzsche

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

You should be doing something useful with your life right now. – Kant

UR FACE – Einstein

Mitch

7:01 PM

Who do you think you are, Kant? - Morganbesser

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ "WHAT?" - The US Naturalization judge after Einstein explained at his citizenship hearing that the US Constitution was 1) not logically consistent, and 2) could allow the voting in of a dictator.

Oh shit.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch I like this guy. Smartass

Cerberus

7:17 PM

Just like the Bible.

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