LOST - GOAT!
last seen in the DY1, possibly eaten by one of dudley's wild (wild) horses...
may never have existed in the first place...
i always wanted 'malkara' to be a word... with a whole lot of wanting-ness (the wiki tells me that its a type of missile, but this is not the kind of word i want it to be...). i even tried just dropping it into conversation occaisionally... it works fairly well as an insult, less well in other contexts, thus...
"yeaman thats well malkara" is a lil' to ambiguous even when judged to the standards of contemporary street lingo...
"f**k off you malkara" when given a lil' spit and venom is still ambiguous, but both effective and offensive...
but once again, i did digress (me, wander off with it... at my age? with my reputation?)... i guess the point that i am trying to make is that i never actually tried to pass it off as real...
if we all start making up words, then we'd just end up talking incomprehensible gibberish... (more-so than usual obviously)
like quadrilogy... i properly dislike that word... i gives me a proper case of the wtf's...
that bastion of stored knowledge wiki, (yeah i know it would never do for an essay but whatever...) suggests that it was first used in 1865, what i definitely know is that it was popularised with the release of the alien dvd box set some time in the soon before...
why do i dislike this word so much?
a - because there's already a word for a series of four, tetralogy
b - its an awkward bastardisation of greek and latin, and yes i know there are plenty of them around, like television, but in most cases they are words which have been coined to describe a new invention and... see a
i am not some kinda stickler adverse to growth and change in a language...
but i don't dig the whole laziness and dumbing down vibe that's going on...
there is a series of words to describes series of different sizes, we as a society mastered trilogy (star wars was a trilogy, no language mashing confusion there...), so why should tetralogy be some damned difficult?! i don't say that 2x2 = y unless i'm being a pedantic bastard, because it has been establlished that its 4...
sometimes i guess you just gotta have standards
...otherwise you end up in a world with misspelt signs and random apostrophes all over the place.
and then we are only one step away from misspelt acronyms...
and that, is superdumbification.
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