Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
by weatherlight on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:28AM
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So... Is Embiggen a cromulent word?
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
by TheLocehiliosan on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:35AM
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It sure is.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Interesting thing about "embiggen" -- the Simpsons _didn't_ invent it. It was already a thing, the show merely popularized it.
It's a century older.
Merriam may not know, but the OED does:
From page 28 of https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610212
> For large P , the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
Yes but if it was not cromulent, what would you say instead?
Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
by chrisweekly on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:02PM
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If it were not cromulent, one might choose a less disputatious synonym, such as "enlarge".
For unwonted synonyms I usually refer to Thesaurus.
https://www.google.ru/search?q=oh+crap+it%27s+a+thesaurus&tb...
Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)
by nescioquid on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:17PM
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Perhaps mongol was fishing for
> A noble spirit encromulates the smallest man.