Ooooh, nice neologism.
-- Larry (accidents happen...)
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Apr 21, 2007
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Aww... the unethical scumbag is lashing-out. Such language!
Looks more like a bad speller to me. I'm betting he meant to say facetious.
You think so? Duh.
Yeah, I know -- sarcasm is tough on the Web. But you might note the tag on my signature -- "(accidents happen...)"
-- Larry
Sorry about that - bloody spell checker - never noticed that ---------- and with an Hon's Degree??? Doh!
Well it could have been a new word, but then what the hell would it mean?
A fictitious fact? A fact which sounds fictitious (implausible)?
-- Larry
Facetious - I do know how to spell it but the Agent checker auto changed it for some reason - did it twice and not I have ADDED it to the dictionary.
Apparently, it means non-natural or artificial.
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Tom K.
Son of a gun... it is a word:
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Of course, all three of those quotes look like typos -- "fictitious" makes sense in each of them.
Time for Safire's Irregulars to swing into action...
-- Larry
It's in the AHD as well.
-- Larry
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