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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Time Cadet)
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Subject: Re: Words that aren't words but we know their meaning anyway
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In article <465@petfe.UUCP>, Evan Marcus writes:

> Anyone ever consider all the words that aren't words, but if these words
> were words, we'd already know what they meant?  (Huh?)
> 
> I think the best way to illustrate is with examples:
> 
> We know what non-chalant is, but how about chalant.  Chalant is not a word,
> yet if it were, it would clearly be the opposite of non-chalant.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Well, I thought there'd be lots of these in the 'non' and 'un' sections of
my booktionary, but only came up with these additions to the list:

nonplussed   ...  plussed
nonpareil    ...  pareil
Unitarian*   ...  Multitarian

    *NOT a trademark of ATT

Here are the few I came up with on my own:

    Microencephalogram
    Device that measures really small brainwaves.

    Macrobiotic
    Gigantic life forms (whales, dinasaurs, God).

    Robotoid
    A lifeform that resembles a robot.

    Macromicrobiotoid
    Big robots that resemble tiny lifeforms.

    Macrobotoid
    1) A large robotoid. 2) Apple Macintosh program that designs robotoids.

    Macrobotoidomicroencephelograhy
    1) The measurement of small-scale brain activity in large-scale
    creatures by a lifeform resembling a robot. 2) Apple Macintosh program
    that measures small-scale brain activity of robotoids.

Other words I discovered, but could not define, were:

    Macrobiomicrorobotoid
    Microtoidal
    Biotoid





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