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The black hole draws you inexorably inward. Time slows. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I'd diddle little umdidlie... if she weren't my half-sister. Abortion prevents pedophilia. In more ways than one!   Notice to all users of the Holodeck: There are safety protocols in place that cannot be deactivated without the approval of two commanding officers or the captain to protect users of the Holodeck from potential harm. However, every time the Holodeck is ever used in a nontrivial manner, no matter what the safety protocols say, the Holodeck turns into a deathtrap. Unless you believe yourself to be adept at constructing a forcefield from your communicator and 19th century Earth tools, or you're at the very least not wearing a red shirt, you are strongly advised not to attempt to use the Holodeck until a designer comes up with a safety protocol that doesn't kill you whenever somebody looks at it funny. Even when you're not on the holodeck. Or in the same quadrant. Or time period. In fact, if you are wearing a red shirt, Starfleet may not be the job for you  |
I'm fond of finding words so specific as to have at one time undoubtedly been a nonce word that are now generalized into the English language. Defenestrate is still my favorite. Couldn't one just say "Throw out the window" instead? I understand a certain desire to define a single object that puts into a nice façade the definitions of a group of others as has been done in this case, but this will eventually clog up dictionaries with nothing but group-words and there will be no room left for the definitions of the individuals. I visualize a time in the future when everybody knows what defenestrate means but nobody could tell you what a window was. My newest addition to group-words is pustulate, which Firefox doesn't even recognize as a word. In the adjective sense it was posited to be, it means to be blemished by imperfections of the skin. Now, this sounds to me like a pleonasm (yes, another of my favorite words right there). "Blemished" generally means there are imperfections in the skin. And yet here we are, declaring a word to be the definition of 'blemish' twice in a row. Has Webster's sales dropped too much recently? Perhaps. Or perhaps the previous definition, the form of which I've seen all too often in dictionaries, was inadequate: "Covered with pustules". Why do you think I looked up the word, Webster!? You think I couldn't have figured that one out on my own, you pustulate lynch-target? Wow, that sounded like a Shakespearean insult. 1 commentLeave a comment |
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