OT "outrageous" (was Re: Elvish ideas ...)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 21, 2003, 14:11 |
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>>Saying that somethings "outrageous" sound complainty to me ...
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>There's more than one conlanger on this list who would probably take it as
>quite a compliment if you described their ideas as "outrageous".
Only within conlang circles? Or has this, as a compliment, passed into
common usage?
In the 1970s & 80s, it was an offhanded compliment, like "fabulous", in
certain Gay circles in the USA.
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