Words that should be words but are not

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I've found that time and time again I place words into a sentence that do not exist according to the dictionary but do, however, abide by conventional morphology.

Example - 'characterous' as an adjective to describe someone with much character (where use of the previous term 'much' would be considered repetitive).

Are there any words that, for greater ease and description, you would love to see added to the dictionary?
 
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Example - 'characterous' as an adjective to describe someone with much character (where use of the previous term 'much' would be considered repetitive).
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Caracther and is depth have so many words to describe. Couldn't you find something suitable?

Instead of "the man I met is very characterous" you could find a few more vivid words, such as "the man I met was very colourful."
 
Sadly, incon:censored:spicuous isn't in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, either.
 
TB
Sadly, incon:censored:spicuous isn't in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, either.
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Would that of happened to come from a particular Guy Richie film?
 
^^^ I guess have is a word that should be in your dictionary , but isn't. . . . :sly:


Sorry, but "of" instead of "have" is one of my pet peeves.
 
Plopback - when you drop a deuce* and the water sprays up

Ex. Person 1 - I'm going to drop a deuce*
Person 2 - Watch out for the plopback.
* replace with a dictionary accepted word


The closest I could find was 'plop spray' in urbandictionary, but nobody even rated it.
 
It's called back splash.
 
Keef
It's called back splash.
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I prefer plopback, because you hear the plop and then feel the water hitting you back.
 
^ Moving on...

Transfixiated. I don't really know what it should mean, but my friends named one of their songs that a long time ago. It just sounds like such a real word.
 
Where has this thread gone...
 
Photonically

My light burned out, now it's photonically insufficient.
 
hypogamy: marrying down
 
Interspectacular & Fantabulous.

Deltron 3030 fans will get this.
 
One that I often spit out in verbal discussion but realize it isn't a word is a conjuction of "I" "Would" and "Have"

It'd look a bit funny but "I'd've" should be a real word.
 
Terrorizers. Heh, W would love that.

But the day Chillax is added to the dictionary will be a sad day for the english language.
 
A gender-neutral singular pronoun.

"They", would be the plural gender-neutral pronoun. Where is the singular? "It"? Somehow we're not allowed to refer to a person as "it".

"Hey, where did you get that?"
"It dropped this off here yesterday."

"Who are you going to the movies with?"
"It's a buddy of mine from work."

That one's a glaring omission. Other than that I usually just get upset with words that are pronounced inconsistently. Words like "record". I've posted some of these in the Deep Thoughts thread.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2309483&postcount=8
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2333914&postcount=105
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2339172&postcount=140
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2339581&postcount=143
 
I've heard the English language is actually one of the harder languages to learn in the world, and weird pronounciations* seem to be one of the leading causes.




* Pronounciation, apparently, is not a word either. The act of pronouncing a word is actually pronunciation. WTF?
 
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I've found that time and time again I place words into a sentence that do not exist according to the dictionary but do, however, abide by conventional morphology.

Example - 'characterous' as an adjective to describe someone with much character (where use of the previous term 'much' would be considered repetitive).

Are there any words that, for greater ease and description, you would love to see added to the dictionary?
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See the derivatives here: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/character?view=uk

I think that it's time dictionaries woke up to the adjective form of "cretin". As in "What you just said is completely cretinous". Obviously, the "extent" form would be "cretinosity", not "cretinousness".

(note: dictionary.com has an amusing note on the pronunciation of "cretin")
 
Der Alta
One that I often spit out in verbal discussion but realize it isn't a word is a conjuction of "I" "Would" and "Have"

It'd look a bit funny but "I'd've" should be a real word.
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I use that one. Although "I'dn't've" is taking it a bit far.
 
It's only pronounced "I'd've" though. It's still written "I'd have" - it just slurs together.
 
Gender neutral singular pronouns... sadly lacking in the English language. My second language (Tagalog) has it, though... "siya"... (him/her) Unfortunately, since that language has no gender-specific singular pronouns (at all), many people here, even educated ones, will often mix up "he" and "she", and some times call you "Sir/Ma'am" just because they can't make up their mind which is appropriate. :lol: Brains not wired for English.

Contrast that with the Chinese language... which has written gender specific pronouns, although spoken Chinese doesn't make the distinction... but their pronouns for family members are confusingly complex... with a different one for maternal aunt or uncle, paternal aunt or uncle... one for the oldest brother or sister, another for the second, the third, the fourth... :lol:

Giancarlo
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Transfixiated. I don't really know what it should mean, but my friends named one of their songs that a long time ago. It just sounds like such a real word.
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Transfixation. The suffix form has no i between x and a.


Keef
* Pronounciation, apparently, is not a word either. The act of pronouncing a word is actually pronunciation. WTF?
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Goes together with enunciation.
 
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