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Re:Rust 1.17 by eduren on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:54PM (#14213839)
>palpatable

=palpable + palatable. Pedantry aside though, I like the word. Maybe it describes something can be palpably palatable.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by steveklabnik on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:26PM (#14214848)
Ha! Nice catch. Good thing I'm not like, a person who's paid to write words or anything...
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Re:Rust 1.17 by chrismorgan on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:36PM (#14215391)
You wrote a word! A new word!
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Re:Rust 1.17 by MR_HANDS on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:07AM (#14218424)
or, palpatable could mean 'able to be palpated', which would mean able to be touched carefully with the intent of inspection, especially in medicine.
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