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Re: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?
Subject:Re: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word? From:linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com To:"Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:02:43 -0400
Melissa Nelson wrote on 04/25/2006 02:55:24 PM:
> Thanks to Dave as well! By the way, I too have been known to go through
a
> dictionairy when I could be out having "fun"! :)
I'd credit the quote if I could (especially since it then wouldn't be
paraphrased thanks to my bad memory), but as it is, think on this:
"A dullard is someone who can open a dictionary and read only the
definition they were looking for."
Me, I have fun bouncing from word to word. I think the joy taken in words
is part of what makes a good writer.
I may be a tad biased, though.
Lin Sims
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