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Sociology > Depression |
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"wombn" |
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27 May 2005 04:17:22 PM |
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Floccinaucinihilipilification |
Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless
or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a
small price'
Source: Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview
Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Floccinaucinihilipilification
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If laughter is the best medicine,
then kittens should be covered by our health insurance. :-)
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| User: "packrat" |
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| Title: Re: Floccinaucinihilipilification |
27 May 2005 04:33:34 PM |
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care to pronounce that for me?
"wombn" <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8h3f91dv4098mqll8cr7t16uh40gja38fu@4ax.com...
Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless
or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a
small price'
Source: Webster's New MillenniumT Dictionary of English, Preview
Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Floccinaucinihilipilification
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If laughter is the best medicine,
then kittens should be covered by our health insurance. :-)
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| User: "wombn" |
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| Title: Re: Floccinaucinihilipilification |
28 May 2005 02:36:40 AM |
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You haven't seen the commercials?
flossy-nossy-ni-hil-i-pi-li-fi-ca-tion << and now I've screwed up my
ability to spell the silly thing for life.
On Fri, 27 May 2005 21:33:34 GMT, "packrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com>
wrote:
care to pronounce that for me?
"wombn" <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8h3f91dv4098mqll8cr7t16uh40gja38fu@4ax.com...
Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless
or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a
small price'
Source: Webster's New MillenniumT Dictionary of English, Preview
Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Floccinaucinihilipilification
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If laughter is the best medicine,
then kittens should be covered by our health insurance. :-)
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If laughter is the best medicine,
then kittens should be covered by our health insurance. :-)
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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| Title: Re: Floccinaucinihilipilification |
28 May 2005 02:41:49 PM |
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On 2005-05-28, wombn <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net> wrote:
On Fri, 27 May 2005 21:33:34 GMT, "packrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com>
wrote:
"wombn" <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8h3f91dv4098mqll8cr7t16uh40gja38fu@4ax.com...
Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless
or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a
small price'
Source: Webster's New MillenniumT Dictionary of English, Preview
Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Floccinaucinihilipilification
care to pronounce that for me?
You haven't seen the commercials?
flossy-nossy-ni-hil-i-pi-li-fi-ca-tion << and now I've screwed up my
ability to spell the silly thing for life.
floxy nawssinny hilly pilly ficayshon (emphasis on the ..ay..) surely?
In English, we would spell it with ph at the beginning - but we'd /say/
'denigration' or 'disparagement' or 'derogation' or 'detraction' or
'ridicule' or 'belittling' or 'traduction' or 'decrying' or ... . Or of
course, 'trivialising'. Possibly all at once if particularly
vituperative.
(My spelling checker choked on ph and traduction. As one would, I
suppose). (It also choked on flocci...).
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