Shouldn't we have had the right to expect better?...

Originally posted by Preacher


I beg to differ. In our ongoing quest to mangulate the English language (which, from a linguist's point of view, is pretty mangulated already...), we invent new words all the time. You don't get it, do you?... It's a little thing I like to call "irony". The whole point is to highlight the fact that "succulent" generally means something that is good and desirable; whereas we use the term "that SUCKS" to indicate something that is very BAD and UNdesirable. To transpose the "newer" definition onto the older established term is to use irony to add to the richness(?) of our common tongue. OK, I'm down off my high horse now...
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Stop being stupid.
 
Originally posted by akashra
Originally posted by Manic
... Mangulate? Try Mangle, Preacher :p
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His own mangling of the English language, like he mentioned :D
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"Mangulate" is an accepted colloquialism (Common variation) for the word "mangle". I've seen it several places, and once noted it on a web dictionary when I was there trying to look up the word "munge". BTW, "munged" would've been an acceptable term to use in my original post--wish I'd thought of that as I was writing the post...hmmmm.
Oh, and yes, I try to munge the English language as often as I can, to point out its inherent foibles (it's so much easier to learn Spanish, French, or any other language than English!...). Unfortunately, it was not an elective subject during my elementary school days (which is rather biteous when you think about it ;-) ).
 
Use smaller words. I've been drinking today. :p (well yesterday actually... my birthday) Just a little hung over.
 
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