Comments on: Let’s Not Discuss Dick Cheney’s Weight

By: Daran

Daran — Sat, 20 May 2006 07:21:16 +0000

“Evil” is a perfectly good noun as it is. Creating verbose versions of already-existing words is evil.

Hmmm, there’s no already-existing word for this. We need one: perhaps a portmanteau of “evil” and “verbosity”.

I’ve got it: “Evilosity”!

Adam Gurri — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:54:54 +0000

in his defense, Daran, evilosity is a legitimate field of scientific study

Ampersand — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:49:54 +0000

Screw the E.L. police! One of the best things about the English language is that it’s so easy to wordify when necessary.

Daran — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:57:55 +0000

I’d agree that your use of ‘orthogonal’ here is correct, but I’d set the English language police on you for ‘evilosity’.

Ampersand — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:03:36 +0000

I’d argue that his fatness and his evilosity are orthogonal to each other.

Robert — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:33:40 +0000

But Amp, don’t you understand? He’s fat, and thus eeeeeeevil.