FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATIONThe action or habit of judging something to be worthless
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Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant 'of little or no value'. In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili.
As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck -fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless
((like this thread! ;P )
Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant 'of little or no value'. In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili.
As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck -fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless
munkt0n,
Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:15,
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Ah. Thank you. I shall use it where posible whilst working.Especially in my morning meeting with a crap architect.
Edit: Want a big kiss?
(Edit: Want a big kiss?
pxyzyzygy,
Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:17,
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Certainly. No tongues though.Mmmmmmmmwwwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhh!
I said no tongues
(I said no tongues
pxyzyzygy,
Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:23,
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2minutes 15 secondsis not "long time"
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thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl,
Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:48,
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0.15% of its life thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl,
Wed 22 Jan 2003, 9:10,
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how ironica word for useless things that is itself useless.
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Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:22,
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