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Roduga said:
A load of people use it, it just isn't mainstream and will probably disappear as 'apparently' is nice to type...
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But it's not even a proper word!

There's no mainstream.. it's not like there's an underground scene of using retarded made up words.

I just thought.. don't people's teachers tell them when they're using made up words, or do they just let them get on with it for fear of upsetting them?

I just googled it and there's loads of places people say it.. but it's not in the dictionary.

wtf? This language is going to pot.
 
Mohinder said:
But it's not even a proper word!

There's no mainstream.. it's not like there's an underground scene of using retarded made up words.

I just thought.. don't people's teachers tell them when they're using made up words, or do they just let them get on with it for fear of upsetting them?
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How do you think new words appear? There isn't a committee, a few start using it, then more, then even more and eventually everyone uses it.

All the words you used were made up by someone.

The only difference is in this case the word is rubbish.
 
Roduga said:
How do you think new words appear? There isn't a committee, a few start using it, then more, then even more and eventually everyone uses it.
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True, 51 people in the world are using it so far, so it's a start..

Why do I have the awful feeling that even though you know that the word is stupid, you'll continue to use it in future.
 
Roduga said:
'Googled' isn't in the OED, yet you used it. :p
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But googled makes sense, you see.

I see what you're getting at, I really do, but surely.. if something's apparent, it's apparent. So that means.. something that's imparent... isn't apparent.

So ner.
 
Mohinder said:
But googled makes sense, you see.

I see what you're getting at, I really do, but surely.. if something's apparent, it's apparent. So that means.. something that's imparent... isn't apparent.

So ner.
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Only to us Internet folk though.

Maybe it's taken from Importantly apparent. Who knows...
 
Mikol said:
Imparently, isn't it just how lazy people actually say apparently?
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Lazy people? Why, is it less effort to say imparently than apparently, or something? :p

It's nothing to do with laziness and everything to do with illiteracy.
 
Roduga said:
How do you think new words appear? There isn't a committee, a few start using it, then more, then even more and eventually everyone uses it.

All the words you used were made up by someone.

The only difference is in this case the word is rubbish.
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I think you'll find that the majority of English words are derived from Greek, Latin and french with a little German for good luck... they didn't just pop into someones 35.4 brain cells.

sesquipedalian = word for the week.
 
singist said:
I think you'll find that the majority of English words are derived from Greek, Latin and french with a little German for good luck... they didn't just pop into someones 35.4 brain cells.

sesquipedalian = word for the week.
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And they come from? Everything has to start somewhere...
 
singist said:
I think you'll find that the majority of English words are derived from Greek, Latin and french with a little German for good luck... they didn't just pop into someones 35.4 brain cells.
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I do hope you're not casting aspersions about how many brain cells Roduga has :p
 
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