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Anne's avatar

I was recently chastised for not employing the Oxford comma. More audaciously, I insert commas where I want the reader to pause regardless of protocol. So punctuation engineers and wordsmiths are my peeps. It delights me that you had this gustolfactory experience and pray it didn't trigger the gustolfunchies.

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Callimachus's avatar

Bravo to you for your verbal creations! That's how languages grow, by their speakers inventing new words as well as new meanings for old words. There is even such a thing as Neo-Latin! Might we see, at some point, a lexicon of collected Fredisms? I, for one, would love to see a collection of the specialized vocabulary that was hatched in your fertile brain.

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