Nano = amusing conversations, if nothing else

[elaby]

Elaby: *puzzled typing* Er. "Ginormous" is a made-up word, right? It's giant and enormous together?
Caitirin: I bet it's in the dictionary.
Elaby: It's not picked up by my spell-check.
Caitirin: *googles* There. Ginormous, in the Merriam-Webster online. "Extremely large; humongous."
Elaby: ... *delighted giggling* I love the world.

First known use circa 1948, dudes. I had no idea.

Comments

yes! XD

[med_cat]

I know! I, too, was surprised to find out, a while back, that it WAS a real word ;)

And good luck with NaNo! ;)

Re: yes! XD

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hee, yeah, I was really happy to see that it's in the dictionary :)

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

I guess all words were made up at some point. :)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Ha, good point! :D

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Good lord. It's sailors' slang. Who knew?

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Not me, certainly! That's awesome!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Hee. Compound neologism. My second favourite after noun conversion neologism. *snuggles the English language* /nerd

Good luck with the whole NaNo thing. I've pretty much chickened out...again. *hangs head*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Hee! I didn't realize what it was called XD I love knowing both of those terms now!

Nano can be remarkably intimidating. No worries :) *pats*

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I simply *adore* the fact that they used humongous as part of the definition of ginormous.

Ginormous: Humongous! Like, totally big, dude! *waves hands in a flappy manner*


yes, I *am* procrastinating from my NaNoWriMo, how did you guess?
and I'm totally going to get both ginormous *and* humongous into my wordcount today.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Haha, procrastinating is a major part of Nano XD

I love words like that.