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Friday, May 06, 2005

Pseudodictionary

If you love words to the point of creating new ones, you'll love dipping into the pseudodictionary. It bills itself as the place where words you've made up can become part of an actual online dictionary! slang, webspeak, colloquialisms... and the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries. The randomizer function had me howling with this result:

word to that
pseudctionary was shown to increase the IQ's of 34% of the lab rats in the countrol [sic] group

gravitass - Taking yourself too seriously, when everyone else thinks you are an idiot.

e.g., Many TV evangelists need to deal with their gravitass a little better.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Georganna Hancock said...

Thanks, Beth. Keep on commenting!

8:50 AM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

Georganna, I’m one of the editors of the PseudoDictionary. Thank you for your nice “review” of the site.

Please note that I’m a very good speller myself. If I were able to, I would correct errors such as the one you pointed out. Alas, I am unable to do so, not having access to that part of the site.

Thanks again,

Betsy

3:21 PM  
Blogger Georganna Hancock said...

See what a copy/paste from a different program will do in Blogger? Looks like Betsy's swearing when the comment gets to the web page! She wasn't, though, because her comment looks just fine within the Blogger program.
@*+@&&!

Actually, Betsy, I couldn't figure out what the "word to that" means.

4:34 PM  

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