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  • crazykate
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    • Feb 2019
    • 174

    #166
    Originally posted by DrPlacebo
    A theocracy is not also known as a CHURCHSTATE.
    Well... It could be known as a church state, or even a church-state, but not without the space or the hyphen. Not in English, at least. In German, that's absolutely how words work.

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    • dannyb
      Member
      • Feb 2019
      • 257

      #167
      Originally posted by crazykate

      Well... It could be known as a church state, or even a church-state, but not without the space or the hyphen. Not in English, at least. In German, that's absolutely how words work.
      Sort of like: nahrungsmittelfabriken

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      • crazykate
        Member
        • Feb 2019
        • 174

        #168
        Originally posted by dannyb

        Sort of like: nahrungsmittelfabriken
        Right, or Zahnpastatubenverschlusskappe or Sollbruchstellenverursacher. Wordtwist would be more interesting in German.

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        • dannyb
          Member
          • Feb 2019
          • 257

          #169
          Originally posted by crazykate

          Right, or Zahnpastatubenverschlusskappe or Sollbruchstellenverursacher. Wordtwist would be more interesting in German.
          It has been 58 years since I took German. Back in the 60s it was expected that you knew German if you were going to study chemistry. After two years of German in high school I decided to study biology instead.

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          • Boulevardiere
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            • Feb 2021
            • 9

            #170
            You can witness something mindbending, but apparently it cannot leave you MINDBENT. Things that I would argue leave me mindbent include the German language (see above).

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            • DrPlacebo
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              • Feb 2019
              • 252

              #171
              Something that's arguably void isn't VOIDISH.

              Also, from the same board, they're still not awarding points for COVID, though I figure that's going to start scoring points sooner or later.

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              • BoggleOtaku
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                • Feb 2019
                • 174

                #172
                UNCOLA didn't make the lexicon.

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                • DrPlacebo
                  Member
                  • Feb 2019
                  • 252

                  #173
                  I tend to think you might find a lot of POSTERMEN at scientific conferences. Alas, not in the lexicon.

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                  • DrPlacebo
                    Member
                    • Feb 2019
                    • 252

                    #174
                    There's terror, but there's no SUPERTERROR.

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                    • DrPlacebo
                      Member
                      • Feb 2019
                      • 252

                      #175
                      No such thing as an UNNATURALIST, unfortunately.

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                      • DrPlacebo
                        Member
                        • Feb 2019
                        • 252

                        #176
                        Also no such thing as JUGOMORPHISMS, which I imagined might refer to having the shape of an Eastern European car.

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                        • Nyannecca
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                          • Feb 2022
                          • 9

                          #177
                          Despite Shaggy's best efforts to introduce his famous catchphrase into the general lexicon, ZOINKS doesn't count.

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                          • dannyb
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                            • Feb 2019
                            • 257

                            #178
                            Great onomatopoeia!

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                            • DrPlacebo
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                              • Feb 2019
                              • 252

                              #179
                              ELECTROFARMING isn't a thing, I guess.

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                              • bwt1213
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                                • Feb 2019
                                • 626

                                #180
                                Overfarming is. But not underfarming. I'm not going to even look up properfarming or superfarming (the spelling checker is flagging all of them anyway, including the "overfarming" that is acceptable). I will have to tell everyone that I am planning my garden this year and if there is ever a real-world example of something being underfarmed, it will be my garden. But I will welcome every morsel I can harvest (saved from insects, squirrels -- aka tree-rats -- and our ravenous dog that thinks ribs are a scurrilous accusation and not a real thing). Yes, Adeline the golden retriever can and will eat cucumbers and squash and tomatoes, probably the more so since we like them all so much.

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