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Noke Lieu
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Autologic words... words that are what they are.
For example, "English" is autologic; "French" is not.
"Word" is. "Dog" is not.
"Written" is (in this instance); "Said" is not (in this instance).
You get the picture.
We had a thread about them a while ago, I thought it about time to try someting along the same lines.
What about these though...?
"sequaepedalian"
"obfuscatory"
"defined"
"translated"
"a random collection of letters"
"sorted"
"inconceivable"
"polyglottic"
"neologism"
"ciphered"
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Re: autologica
« Reply #1 on: Feb 13th, 2009, 12:59am » |
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Autologic (but you could argue that it is not...)
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Noke Lieu
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Re: autologica
« Reply #3 on: Feb 13th, 2009, 4:38am » |
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um, yes.
sesqui, not se(s)quae... bad typing. Sorry.
I understood the definintion to be "using excessively long words when shorter ones would do", but the definitions given by dictionary.com make it wriggly enough.
I've tried to get words which you almost need to justify your stance.
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Re: autologica
« Reply #4 on: Mar 5th, 2009, 7:31pm » |
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I don't think "a random collection of letters" is one. They aren't really random because they have a particular order so that they are comprehensible. Maybe something more along the lines of "an ordered collection of letters".
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Re: autologica
« Reply #5 on: Mar 9th, 2009, 7:47pm » |
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"Translated" might or might not be.
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Noke Lieu
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Re: autologica
« Reply #6 on: Mar 10th, 2009, 5:57am » |
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sorry- fell asleep there...
on Mar 5th, 2009, 7:31pm, codpro880 wrote:| I don't think "a random collection of letters" is one. They aren't really random because they have a particular order so that they are comprehensible. Maybe something more along the lines of "an ordered collection of letters". |
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But it depends, surely.
What if the letters are rearranged to spell "For littler acetone condoms". The letters are the same, ye tthe meaning is entirely different. Given a random generation of letters, it's concievable that this string was evolved. The fact that we can make sense of it is 2ndry?
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Re: autologica
« Reply #7 on: Mar 10th, 2009, 6:50am » |
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Well, technically you should speak of "a randomly generated collection of letters" 
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