Re: CHAT: Anyone see the irony?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 4, 1998, 5:34 |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:54:37 -0500, Diana Slattery <slattd@...> wrote:
>And--re: the peevishness--it's like any social group--family, club,
>legislature, world population--we're all intending to make nice with =
each
>other, but, well, backs get up and human cantankerousness takes over.
>(Aside: how many conlangers have in their vocabularies a word for
>cantankerousness? If you post them, I'll make a limerick out of them, =
which
>will be put to music and sung when things get hot.
Cantankerousness? Well, that's not a word I'm likely to use even in
English, but I can stick a few Jarrda lego-blocks (logo-blocks?) together
and come up with something close to the right meaning ....
gleanpuead (glean + pue + ad) "the quality of being likely to argue,
dispute, or quarrel".
or perhaps:
gleantosad "the quality of being fond of arguing, etc."