Re: Jokers wild
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2007, 15:00 |
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On 9/28/07, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:
> 'Concision' is (unsurprisingly) in OED from 1st edition, with citations going back to
> 1382. And moreover it is a term with currency among conlangers (-- concision
> being a common engelang desideratum).
Ok, my mistake. I thought it was a recent coinage by analogy with
'precision'; most of my life I always heard "conciseness".
I retract the example. Back to 'terifficity'. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>