Word help

[nakedninja]

So am I to believe that the word 'unfulfilling' does not exist?

Fire away and have at me spelling/word Nazis, I did not mean to provoke another 'aren't the young of today so uneducated, innit' thread, I truly thought this word existed!

More fool me I suppose.

[DangerousMike]

using word now

apparently neither does

functionalisation
perfluoroarylborane
steric
zwitterionic
glovebox

if you think a word is right, who cares what the wordprocessor says? DOn't let that paperclip control your life!

[nakedninja]

If only it was just the bd paperclip, which [macsmugness] I avoid [/macsmugness], its also the all powerful google and its dictionary of choice dictionary.com

The internet is a load of balls anyway, I'm glad I know better.

[Nolar Dog]

In what context are you trying to use the word?

[Poledriver]

It was a relationship thing!

[Emsman]

nakedninja said:

The internet is a load of balls anyway .

Balls you say?

You are looking at the wrong sites chap!

[T89 Callan]

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

[Los Palmas 7]

T89 Callan said:

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

I've often wondered why we have so many words that are seemingly "opposite only". For example, I've never heard of anyone who's happy and contented being described as "gruntled".

I suppose that you could argue that disgruntled is just another word and not necessarily an opposite of anything, but the "dis" prefix does suggest that it is the negative form of another word.

Yes, the nights do fly by.

[Airbag]

Los Palmas 7 said:

T89 Callan said:

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

I've often wondered why we have so many words that are seemingly "opposite only". For example, I've never heard of anyone who's happy and contented being described as "gruntled".

I suppose that you could argue that disgruntled is just another word and not necessarily an opposite of anything, but the "dis" prefix does suggest that it is the negative form of another word.

Yes, the nights do fly by.

Emboweling someone seems like a pretty harsh punishment.

[Kit80]

T89 Callan said:

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

I like your thinking, I have always wanted grateful and grateless - ungrateful just doesn't make sense.

[Ledaig]

T89 Callan said:

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

The origin of the word dismantle is indeed the opposite of mantle. Mantle means a layer which covers something (also used to describe a layer within the earth). Dismantle today is to remove items, the term was originally applied to houses and ships, when you dismantled one of these, you removed furniture, equipment and items of defence. Effectively you were removing layers and hence dismantle.

[T89 Callan]

Ledaig said:

T89 Callan said:

I've been trying to introduce the word 'Pointful' as the opposite to 'pointless'

Also 'Mantled' as the opposite of 'dismantled'

For example "I have just mantled my track cars rear axle"

The origin of the word dismantle is indeed the opposite of mantle. Mantle means a layer which covers something (also used to describe a layer within the earth). Dismantle today is to remove items, the term was originally applied to houses and ships, when you dismantled one of these, you removed furniture, equipment and items of defence. Effectively you were removing layers and hence dismantle.

Well you learn something everyday.

Also I'm going to start using 'gruntled'

[6655321]

Such as the mantle, or mantleplace.

[BoRED S2upid]

nakedninja said:

So am I to believe that the word 'unfulfilling' does not exist?

Fire away and have at me spelling/word Nazis, I did not mean to provoke another 'aren't the young of today so uneducated, innit' thread, I truly thought this word existed!

More fool me I suppose.

Your right its not in my ditionary. However my copy was published in 1990 so it could well have been added.

[Los Palmas 7]

T89 Callan said:

Also I'm going to start using 'gruntled'

This gruntles me.

[MartG]

When you throw a stone into the sea it 'lands' in the water - how can it 'land', there is no land, only water. Should we say it waters in the sea ?

And don't start me on flammable/inflammable/non-flammable/non-inflammable :-(

[dibbly_dobbler]

nakedninja said:

So am I to believe that the word 'unfulfilling' does not exist?

Fire away and have at me spelling/word Nazis, I did not mean to provoke another 'aren't the young of today so uneducated, innit' thread, I truly thought this word existed!

More fool me I suppose.

May I extend my contrafibularities at your evident pericombobulation !

Unfulfilling is definitely a word

[Gnits]

I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericabobulations.
Classic!

English I maintain, is a bit of a crap language and must be awful to have to learn - I feel sorry for all the Johnny foreigners.

This occured to me the other day:
- I went into the garden to weed and feed the plants.
- I came back in having weeded and feeded... no hang on... having wed and fed... bugg*r!

[dave_s13]

MartG said:

When you throw a stone into the sea it 'lands' in the water - how can it 'land', there is no land, only water. Should we say it waters in the sea ?

And don't start me on flammable/inflammable/non-flammable/non-inflammable :-(

But water has surface tension so objects can indeed "land" on it. Just that your stone breaks through and "splashes". etc etc etc etc etc

Land has many definitions, only one of which is to describe the earth we stand on.

As I understand it flammable/in-flammable are synonymous as are the "non" prefixed versions.

English is something I would like to have a better grasp of, ever read some of derestrictors posts on here? he's pretty good at wielding a keyboard.

[spikeyhead]

Gnits said:

I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericabobulations.
Classic!

English I maintain, is a bit of a crap language and must be awful to have to learn - I feel sorry for all the Johnny foreigners.

As someone living in the Netherlands, all the locals have mastered English, whereas my Dutch skills are making no progress whatsoever, therefore English is easy to learn and Dutch isn't.