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finnword1
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One of the most useless words in the English language is "whatsoever". (None whatsoever is already none). Any other nominations for the list?
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Baran Keki 
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Tom in London
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Italian to English
finnword1 wrote:
One of the most useless words in the English language is "whatsoever". (None whatsoever is already none). Any other nominations for the list?
No words are useless. Given a suitable context, any word can be the "mot juste".
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Zea_Mays
Italy
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jolly word for almost everything.
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Kay Denney
France
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Irregardless.
Mind you, at a job I had last century, I and a colleague were conspiring at one point and we used it as a code word on phone calls to say "please disregard anything I might say beyond this point because the boss has just walked in".
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Italian to English
Kay Denney wrote:
Irregardless.
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Of course if a "word" isn't actually a word, you can get around this prescription. "Irregardless" is not a word and never has been.
To which the Wittgensteinian part of me retorts "define what a word is".
So I'm asking: what is a word?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4
[Edited at 2023-08-17 08:51 GMT]
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
[Edited at 2023-08-17 09:26 GMT]
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Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
[Edited at 2023-08-17 09:26 GMT]
...bears a commonly acknowledged notion, yes. If not, then not.
[Bearbeitet am 2023-08-17 11:35 GMT]
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Tom in London
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Matthias Brombach wrote: Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
[Edited at 2023-08-17 09:26 GMT] ...bears a common acknowledged notion, yes. If not, then not.
Who says?
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| Who proves it? | Aug 17, 2023 |
Tom in London wrote: Matthias Brombach wrote: Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
[Edited at 2023-08-17 09:26 GMT] ...bears a common acknowledged notion, yes. If not, then not. Who says?
You. You have to prove that òpidubvè97r is also a word with a commonly acknowledged notion and others would have to confirm.
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Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
It could be passed off as a password, so at least in that sense, it's a word. On the other hand, now it's been published, it wouldn't be a good idea to use it as a password, so its practical use is past time. We can still pass our time debating it, though, as a sort of pastime.
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Baran Keki wrote:
powwow?
Meowwow? My cat thinks it's a word. Can feline words puss-ibly count as words?
[Edited at 2023-08-17 12:13 GMT]
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Thomas T. Frost wrote: Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't. It could be passed off as a password, so at least in that sense, it's a word. On the other hand, now it's been published, it wouldn't be a good idea to use it as a password, so its practical use is past time. We can still pass our time debating it, though, as a sort of pastime.
I would suggest using it as a word for a future pasty rather than as a password. If we agree, we have a word and you'll have my word that it is a word, commonly agreed and acknowledged as such and with a meaning. A password hasn't a meaning, it is only an assembly of characters for a fixed purpose and not for communication.
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Matthias Brombach wrote: Tom in London wrote: Matthias Brombach wrote: Tom in London wrote:
òpidubvè97r is also a word. Tell me it isn't.
[Edited at 2023-08-17 09:26 GMT] ...bears a common acknowledged notion, yes. If not, then not. Who says? You. You have to prove that òpidubvè97r is also a word with a commonly acknowledged notion and others would have to confirm.
A word needs to have a meaning. So what you wrote does not qualify.
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