And I spent much of my day exactly the same way I suppose most of you spent yours:
a) Combining random Greek prefixes and suffixes to come up with interesting words; and b) Googling the results to see who'd beaten me to said neologism.
(Incidentally, this is a great way of discovering death metal bands. Turns out they ALL come up with their band names this way. Who knew?)
Anyway - as probably could have been foreseen - I wound up Googling "cryptometer."
To reiterate: They know the definition, but it's one of the words for which they charge money. Why do I find that so delightful?
So now I'm trying to find OTHER words that the good folks at Merriam-Webster believe are worth $4.95 a month.
For the record, not random series of letters...
...and not other useless combinations of prefixes and suffixes...
They have chosen to hide the definition of a word that probably means "a means for measuring the hidden."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, 2011...
On January 31, 2011, I removed the “Disqus” comment add-on from this blog.
ReplyDeleteWhen I removed it, the old comments were deleted with it.
These are those comments:
Kayne wrote:
“This page is coming together! So far so good, Kates.”
Katy wrote, in reply to Kayne:
“Hey, Dex.
It takes a while. I start slow, and eventually these things end up sucking up all of my time.”
I feel like such a goober telling you the same thing over and over. Rarely in my life do I come across something that leaves me at a loss for words. Please don't EVER quit writing this blog!
ReplyDeleteRafa: I just shut down tonight the blog that I’d been doing for the past… 4years, I guess. This is home base now.
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