Another surprising rejection

[JoanM19]

I took a stab during a puzzle with not many words... and guess what, mofos is a word and it mean what you think it does... couldn't believe it.

[bwt1213]

marketablenesses and marketableness are accepted. Unmarketableness and unmarketablenesses are not.

[BoggleOtaku]

Deplorable is accepted but not Deplorables

[Jegl]

And Newspapermen is accepted but Newspaperwomen isn't

[bocci]

All in good fun, I was disappointed that RAPALA is not a valid word! Jeez, in the summer I say that word about twenty times a day!

[Nicolatte]

On a board where Multimillionaires and Millionairess were accepted, Multimillionairess was not!

[DrPlacebo]

I'm REALLY annoyed because the plural ORTHOMYXOVIRUSES was accepted and the singular ORTHOMYXOVIRUS was not.

(MYXOVIRUS and MYXOVIRUSES were both accepted.)

[leabhar]

It rejected horloge and that is in the dictionary. *sob*

[flops]

that's where I found fulgurate, but couldn't find it used as a verb...

[mclag]

By the way, "fulgurize" is used in my field (medicine) as a verb to refer to the destroying of tissue with a form of electrocautery. I am most familiar with it as a treatment for bladder cancer.

[leabhar]

One of my teachers used to always say, "A normal person is just somebody you don't know very well."

We had a sign in our cafetaria at work (University) that read: "Ever met a normal person?.......And, did you like it?"

[Naboka]

Nakoba, when people "accuse" me of being not normal, I take is as a compliment...these days...when I was younger I just found it very confusing. I've mostly worked out that if I either just keep it to myself and enjoy what I'm thinking or doing privately, or I explain how I arrived to whatever conclusion/thought/etc I've gotten to (I didn't understand how it wasn't obvious to others in the past), you can actually take others on the ride with you!

Flops, I find "normal" is accepting, demonstrating or adhering to expected patterns.

Birds expect certain patterns or no fertilization. Society expects certain patterns or you're in trouble. Isn't it wonderful that humans are the center of the universe and the Sun rotates around us?

Until it didn't.

Questioning expected patterns can get you in deep doo-doo.

But, really bright people question almost everything. Why do we have five fingers? Why are there hairy parts of plants? What caused all those striations in rocks?

Normal is accepting patterns you've been fed without question.

Without those who question we'd still be crapping in caves and chasing rabbits on bare feet--if we survived at all.

[flops]

Now that's possible, mdyak, when we consider how many friends we have that might be considered "normal", and I don't mean the people that present as normal in some circumstances, but really aren't. I've given this some thought recently, I think like attracts like when it comes to odd, and in forums like this "normal" and "intelligent" are fairly mutually exclusive. I was wondering if I was some kind of weird magnet, but then I had to consider that maybe, just maybe...we don't attract, and are not attracted to, "normal". Finally, it's a really, really, good thing (let's face it, when you are in the odd/weird spectrum, being with like others, kinda makes contextually normal, right?).

Nakoba, when people "accuse" me of being not normal, I take is as a compliment...these days...when I was younger I just found it very confusing. I've mostly worked out that if I either just keep it to myself and enjoy what I'm thinking or doing privately, or I explain how I arrived to whatever conclusion/thought/etc I've gotten to (I didn't understand how it wasn't obvious to others in the past), you can actually take others on the ride with you!

As you may have observed, I find brackets and commas particularly useful in mapping my mental meanderings!

I could only find "fulgurize" as a term meaning "to be apart from something, but also feel close to it", I went down the "fulgurate" line, to no avail. ...Odd.

[mdyak]

One of my teachers used to always say, "A normal person is just somebody you don't know very well."

[Naboka]

Had to have a little giggle that a lot of the words we use are not in normal dictionaries...I thinking that normal dictionaries are for normal people. One of my favourite things about you all is that you are not normal.

When people passive-agressively criticize me with "you're not normal," I ask, "what are you, an advocate for mediocrity?"

Who the hell wants to be normal? Normal is average. Average is a C. Normal is living paycheck to paycheck, and not being able to send your kids to college. Normal is not being good enough to make the team, much less excel. What kind of aspiration is "normal?"