thought this might strike your fancy; I don't find the word quite graceful
enough, but it is clever.
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Date: 23 Apr 1997 03:41:59 GMT
From: Marc Fleury <tetsuo@fox.nstn.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.hofstadter
Subject: introverbophilic
over in rec.puzzles, dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell) wrote:
>Fred the Wonder Worm <ftww@cs.su.oz.au> wrote:
>>introverbophile (n): One who likes introducing new words into the language.
>"introverbophilic" would be one of Hofstadter's self-defining words,
>wouldn't it? Though it would cease to be so once people had used it
>for a while, which makes it rather unusual...
I thought I'd port this over here, in case anyone might be interested.
-- Fleury.