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Title: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: PhoenixxFire on October 25, 2017, 03:52:16 pm
Does it need to be in a dictionary? Or does it just need a meaning? I tend to take both sides on this depending on if I'm the one making up words or someone else is. What are your thoughts?
Title: Re: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: elysepopplewell on October 25, 2017, 04:48:44 pm
Quote from: PhoenixxFire on October 25, 2017, 03:52:16 pm
Does it need to be in a dictionary? Or does it just need a meaning? I tend to take both sides on this depending on if I'm the one making up words or someone else is. What are your thoughts?

Interesting question. What inspired this? I'm having trouble conceptualising the debate, but I feel like I will have an opinion on it...
Title: Re: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: PhoenixxFire on October 25, 2017, 04:54:45 pm
Quote from: elysepopplewell on October 25, 2017, 04:48:44 pm
Interesting question. What inspired this? I'm having trouble conceptualising the debate, but I feel like I will have an opinion on it...

My brain works weirdly when I'm up too late at night. I was thinking about people (me mostly) who say that words that people make up like betterer aren't words. So then I was wondering what a word was? Is it just a random sequence of letters that have meaning? That would mean that betterer is a word. I figured AN would have the answer so here we are ;D
Title: Re: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: K888 on October 25, 2017, 05:14:26 pm
Definitely Joseph41's time to shine.
Title: Re: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: Joseph41 on October 25, 2017, 05:23:13 pm
Quote from: K888 on October 25, 2017, 05:14:26 pm
Definitely Joseph41's time to shine.

There's no such thing as a word.
Title: Re: What makes a word, a word?
Post by: Mariamnourine on October 25, 2017, 07:06:44 pm
Quote from: Joseph41 on October 25, 2017, 05:23:13 pm
There's no such thing as a word.

100% accurate perspective on the topic Joseph41 [wait is accurate even a word? ;)