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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Feb 12^th, 2009, 6:37pm)

Title: autologica
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 12^th, 2009, 6:37pm

Autologic words... words that are what they are.
For example, "English" is autologic; "French" is not.
"Word" is. "Dog" is not.
"Written" is (in this instance); "Said" is not (in this instance).

You get the picture.
We had a thread about them a while ago, I thought it about time to try someting along the same lines.
What about these though...?

"sequaepedalian"
"obfuscatory"
"defined"
"translated"
"a random collection of letters"
"sorted"
"inconceivable"
"polyglottic"
"neologism"
"ciphered"

Title: Re: autologica
Post by Grimbal on Feb 13^th, 2009, 12:59am

Autologic (but you could argue that it is not...)

Title: Re: autologica
Post by towr on Feb 13^th, 2009, 1:32am

on 02/12/09 at 18:37:22, Noke Lieu wrote:

"sequaepedalian"

sesquipedalian (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sesquipedalian)?

Title: Re: autologica
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 13^th, 2009, 4:38am

um, yes.
sesqui, not se(s)quae... bad typing. Sorry.
I understood the definintion to be "using excessively long words when shorter ones would do", but the definitions given by dictionary.com make it wriggly enough.

I've tried to get words which you almost need to justify your stance.

Title: Re: autologica
Post by codpro880 on Mar 5^th, 2009, 7:31pm

I don't think "a random collection of letters" is one. They aren't really random because they have a particular order so that they are comprehensible. Maybe something more along the lines of "an ordered collection of letters".

Title: Re: autologica
Post by iono on Mar 9^th, 2009, 7:47pm

"Translated" might or might not be.

Title: Re: autologica
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 10^th, 2009, 5:57am

sorry- fell asleep there...

on 03/05/09 at 19:31:58, codpro880 wrote:

But it depends, surely.
What if the letters are rearranged to spell "For littler acetone condoms". The letters are the same, ye tthe meaning is entirely different. Given a random generation of letters, it's concievable that this string was evolved. The fact that we can make sense of it is 2ndry?

Title: Re: autologica
Post by towr on Mar 10^th, 2009, 6:50am

Well, technically you should speak of "a randomly generated collection of letters" ;D