[Lexicog] Re: factional

[Helge Gundersen]

Right you are. As a matter of fact, I've seen the expression a number of 
times, and, if I'm not mistaken, it even appears in subtitles in some 
books. A Google search even yields the expression "semi-factional 
biography", showing that "factional" alone is established enough to be 
modified in this way!

Helge Gundersen
http://no2014.uio.no/index_eng.php

On 29.06.2005 06:18, Wayne Leman wrote:

> I happened to turn on the T.V. tonight when the only channel available
> to us was airing a program on the Da Vinci Code. I haven't read the book.
> 
> At the end of the program a historian refers to data which were
> "fictional" and others that were "factional." My English dictionary
> doesn't have that meaning sense for "factional" but I wouldn't be
> surprised if English dictionaries will in a few years. Nice neologism
> based on lexical symmetry with "fictional."


 
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