Birth of a nova--not?

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

Macaronic joke-words like this sometimes do make it over the lintel
--  examples include "stick-to-itveness," "commonsensical,"
"dandiacal" (coined by Carlyle), and very likely "talkative."

Geoff Nunberg

>woody allen would say that has a lot of heaviosity
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>dennis
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>On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Michael McKernan wrote:
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>>Poster:       Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM>
>>Subject:      Re: Birth of a nova--not?
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>>>On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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>>>>"Truthfuliness" will be next year's WOTY.  Thus I prophesize.
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>>>i'm trying to push "periverisimilitude" 'an approximation to an
>>>appearance of truth'.
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>>>arnold, trying to add verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and
>>>unconvincing narrative
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>>Jon:  why not 'Truthifulness,' in the fulness of truthiness?
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>>Arnold:   why straddle the 'peri' fence just for an internal
>>rhyme?  why
>>not pee(-)river(-)similitude?  You'd attract a whole new clientele
>>to your
>>otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative...showers of (fool's)
>>gold might
>>rain down on you.  Truthifulness be with you.
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>>Michael McKernan
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