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A comment on A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016).

Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by COGlory on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:57PM (#28644982)
Is this related to the usage of cromulent in this submission?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28641170

>First, btrfs is a perfectly cromulent single-disk ext4 replacement.

Or am I just getting that bias thing where because the word cromulent is now on my radar, I'm seeing it everywhere I look?

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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by mattnewton on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:30PM (#28645439)
The later probably, cromulent was a word made up for a Simpsons episode about another made up work a while back
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by duskwuff on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:46PM (#28648625)
> a while back

Over 25 years ago, actually! Lisa the Iconoclast, which coined the words "embiggen" and "cromulent" as part of a gag, aired in February 1996.

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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by lproven on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:34AM (#28652649)
Cromulent yes; embiggen no. See https://www.lexico.com/definition/embiggen
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