Gallant Efforts

[DrPlacebo]

ELECTROFARMING isn't a thing, I guess.

[dannyb]

Great onomatopoeia!

[Nyannecca]

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

[DrPlacebo]

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

[DrPlacebo]

No such thing as an UNNATURALIST, unfortunately.

[DrPlacebo]

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

[DrPlacebo]

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

[BoggleOtaku]

UNCOLA didn't make the lexicon.

[DrPlacebo]

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.

[Boulevardiere]

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).

[dannyb]

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.

[crazykate]

Sort of like: nahrungsmittelfabriken

Right, or Zahnpastatubenverschlusskappe or Sollbruchstellenverursacher. Wordtwist would be more interesting in German.

[dannyb]

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

[crazykate]

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.

[DrPlacebo]

A theocracy is not also known as a CHURCHSTATE.