true, spaghetti on toast.

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ps, nothing personal, I had that planned for the first person to go overboard, so don't bother replying, no-one wants to hear it.

//don't bother replying, no-one wants to hear it.

I rest my case. (shut up now)

and all i said was "you're the boss". all this hostility over one comment. far out, i give up.

Ooooh. I just got to learn a new word. Exciting. And it's a goodee. I initially thought it was another one of those words where you take the prefix off, and get a fun non-word.

//There's actually a whole grammatical category for them.

Yeah, I know. I love gruntled. I'd just never thought of peccable or maculate. Stretching it a bit, turbed and norant are also pretty fun.

Back formations also include things like orientate (which is effectively the same as orient, but was back-formed from orientation).

ORIENTATE IS NOT A WORD!

I apologize to the powers that be for getting all shouty there, but it's something I feel very passionate about. It's just like 'irregardless', it's just irresponsible wanton use of prefixes and suffixes. Fucking say 'orient', people!

//ORIENTATE IS NOT A WORD!
whew! I thought I was the only one who got riled about this.

//Same reason adapt goes to adaptation, not adaption.
adaption is a word, isn't it?

While we're talking about unnecessary prefixes, isn't it annoying how the opposite of "ingenuous" is "disingenuous"?

//adaption is a word, isn't it?
Heheh. Not in New Zealand English (or Brit E. or Aus.E.). It's a word in most non-Romance Indo-european languages, but it might exist in one of those other non-standard varieties of English.

Personally I'm relatively ambivalent about orient/orientate, but I much prefer "disorientated" as it sounds much more disordered than disoriented. It's almost as good as discombobulated.