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I like embiggen ... it has a certain whimsy that most other neologisms are
sorely lacking.
And I have to add that the use of âtouchbasedâ I mentioned was in a Slack
message, not anything formalesque.
JG
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:25 PM Marsh, Ed <Ed -dot- Marsh -at- gs -dot- com> wrote:
> As of 2018, a perfectly cromulent word is "embiggens" a literal fake word
> created by the Simpsons. It was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary
> this year.
>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen
>
> Language evolves. So do our users. Use the language they do.
>
> Ed Marsh
> (not Marshall)
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