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wanted to like this movie..but I was TREPIDATIOUS about it

posted 11 years ago by jonieblon
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I friggin hate that NON-word.. (the only reason I use the other non-word friggin is bcz I cannot say what I really want)....It has been forced into the lexicon when it is absolutely inaccurate. You have trepidation. You are not trepidatious. And she uses it multiple times..along with other inaccurate phrasing throughout the movie. Was it supposed to be a part of her non-charm (and I found this character...really annoying...I mean..I didn't care if her kid could read or not). And when she "threw the ball outside the box"??? Uh..WHAT?? Not to mention..like all of Maggie gyllenhall's characters..she's as skanky as they come.

You pipple mek my ass twitch

[–] electrictroy 8 years ago

Many words have a beginning, when they were first invented. English professors even have a term for it: "Inkhorn words"... words that did not exist until a writer pulled them from his ink well.

EXAMPLES:
- trepidatious borrowed from Latin
- colonize invented by Benjamin Franklin
- dismiss, celebrate, encyclopedia, commit, capacity, ingenious, expedite by William Shakespeare

Read a dictionary like OED that tracks word origination. You will find 2/3rd of modern English words did not exist in the original english language 1000 years ago. They were added over time
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