[HN Gopher] A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
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A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
Author : todd8
Score : 107 points
Date : 2021-09-24 13:18 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| filmgirlcw wrote:
| I used to have a t-shirt from a now-defunct television recap
| website that said "perfectly cromulent" and it was the best "in
| joke" shirt. Would always bring out the fellow Simpsons nerds.
| Uptrenda wrote:
| What a pretentious way to say acceptable. If I ever hear anyone
| using cromulent unironically I'll automatically think they're a
| douchbag and avoid them. Language is suppose to be simple so you
| can... IDK, communicate. Stuff like this is cringe and not at all
| based or red pilled. Downboated.
| billfruit wrote:
| I think it is all copacetic now.
| cattleprodigy wrote:
| one of my favorite uses: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tommy-
| needy-drinky
| tantalor wrote:
| This story has no byline or dateline.
|
| Please don't do this.
| fouc wrote:
| looks like it was first published in 2016
| seattle_spring wrote:
| Oh come on, this is a perfectly cromulent submission.
| Lammy wrote:
| TIL that's what those are called
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline
|
| Makes sense since it's a line that says who it's by :v
| daveslash wrote:
| This is an interesting point. You're right - no byline or
| dateline. Not great things on a "News" platform.
|
| But that begs the question: is Hacker News a "news" site?
| Despite having "news" in the name, I prefer to think of it more
| as a _" Directory of Mostly Wonderful [Hacker] Things"_. At
| least, that's what I lurk here.
| vincent-manis wrote:
| That use of "begs the question" is unfortunate. "Raises the
| question" would be more cromulent, provided that cromulence
| can be compared.
| JCVI-syn10 wrote:
| While some may accuse you of pedantry, I applaud your
| embiggening others' understanding of this common mistake.
| daveslash wrote:
| I stand by _" begs the question"_ - it's perfectly
| cromulent for all "intensive purposes". (/s ~ in all
| seriousness, I appreciate the correction!)
| dang wrote:
| I see it like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&pag
| e=0&prefix=false&qu...
| hunterb123 wrote:
| The cromulent way to describe HN is "news aggregator".
| notapenny wrote:
| This being a perfectly cromulent candidate to be entered into
| Merriam-Webster gives me great hope for tnettenba.
| BitwiseFool wrote:
| It embiggens us all.
| AuthorizedCust wrote:
| Parent comment shouldn't be downvoted. It's cromulent, in an
| insider way.
|
| (I'm not kidding. Same episode! Hint: 3F13.)
| mmmBacon wrote:
| Such a cromulent suggestion and bigly of you.
| milliams wrote:
| I'm not sure that's a word. Could you use it in a sentence?
| jedberg wrote:
| Good morning, that's a nice tnettenba.
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| Is the addressee of the greeting naked or not?
| LegitShady wrote:
| You're supposed to just ask me what I'm wearing - you
| jumped the gun a little.
| criddell wrote:
| They just did!
| nielsbot wrote:
| I really want to make a joke about me wearing mine every day...
| But I also don't want to contribute to the redditification of
| HN.
| COGlory wrote:
| Is this related to the usage of cromulent in this submission?:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28641170
|
| >First, btrfs is a perfectly cromulent single-disk ext4
| replacement.
|
| Or am I just getting that bias thing where because the word
| cromulent is now on my radar, I'm seeing it everywhere I look?
| mattnewton wrote:
| The later probably, cromulent was a word made up for a Simpsons
| episode about another made up work a while back
| duskwuff wrote:
| > a while back
|
| Over 25 years ago, actually! _Lisa the Iconoclast_ , which
| coined the words "embiggen" and "cromulent" as part of a gag,
| aired in February 1996.
| franky47 wrote:
| This whole article gave me a fronache.
| weatherlight wrote:
| So... Is Embiggen a cromulent word?
| mongol wrote:
| Yes but if it was not cromulent, what would you say instead?
| chrisweekly wrote:
| If it were not cromulent, one might choose a less
| disputatious synonym, such as "enlarge".
| wruza wrote:
| For unwonted synonyms I usually refer to Thesaurus.
|
| https://www.google.ru/search?q=oh+crap+it%27s+a+thesaurus&t
| b...
| evilotto wrote:
| From page 28 of https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610212
|
| > For large P , the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the
| gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to
| embiggen is very mild.
| [deleted]
| TheLocehiliosan wrote:
| It sure is.
|
| https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen
|
| A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
| [deleted]
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| Is "cromulent" a woody or a tinny word?
| KineticLensman wrote:
| Woody.
|
| (I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn ... gorn.
| It's got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much
| better than `newspaper' or `litterbin')
| rahoulb wrote:
| It's always been one of my favourite Simpsons' jokes, precisely
| because it's so subtle.
|
| And yes, I use both words all the time.
| AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
| See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thagomizer which has seen
| adoption.
| I_complete_me wrote:
| I reach for funner so often it's in my wordbag.
| riffraff wrote:
| "Grok" is quite commonly used verb which comes from a made up
| concept in Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange land".
| m463 wrote:
| what about grep?
| [deleted]
| lsaferite wrote:
| Grok is certainly a standard part of my lexicon.
| kube-system wrote:
| Words are just memes that stick around for a while.
| Lammy wrote:
| "Unite humanity with a living, new language."
| prvc wrote:
| >While we don't yet enter _cromulent_ into our dictionaries, it's
| a perfectly cromulent candidate for future entry.
|
| Although the dictionary editors surely were hypnotized by their
| own humorousness, they ought not to have published that sentence.
| sblom wrote:
| Why not?
|
| M-W's lexicographers openly discuss their process of
| descriptively documenting language as it's observed in real
| use. If usage of the word "cromulent" continues to grow to the
| point that it reaches the threshold for inclusion, it, by
| definition, belongs in the (descriptive) dictionary.
| margalabargala wrote:
| If we hold the M-W editors to the standard of only using
| "real" words, then a contradiction is present.
|
| If "cromulent" has not yet reached their threshold for
| inclusion, then they themselves should not be using it in
| casual language. Contrapositively, if they are using it
| casual language, then presumably it has reached their
| threshold for inclusion as a word.
|
| For them to casually use the word as though it were real
| after arguing that it is not harms their credibility as
| arbiters of what words are or are not real, despite the
| comedic value of them doing so here.
| [deleted]
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