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by David Lloyd-Jones
Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:21 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Globaloney
Replies: 5
Views: 6545

Re: Globaloney

I don't think the "meaning" supplied for the word globaloney is accurate. The word is a pejorative noun for policies, not ideas, more specifically for American policies involving international aid, organizations, or military involvement. People using the word, generally venomously, tend to...
by David Lloyd-Jones
Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:48 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Debris
Replies: 2
Views: 3372

Re: Debris

Debris doesn't go around in circles. If there were nothing else in the universe it would go around in ellipses. :lol: If there is a multiverse, one might imagine that in one of the universes with nothing in it but debris and something to attract it might go around in that degenerate ellipse which is...
by David Lloyd-Jones
Wed Jan 01, 2020 12:09 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Exiguous
Replies: 2
Views: 4198

Re: Exiguous

If billbucklish is an adjective for words that appeared uncommonly often in the vocabulary of a certain person, "exiguous" is probably the most billbucklish of them all. Until the word turned up in my mail today I had seen it no more than six times in my life -- every one of them in Nation...

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