You read slashdot too, then?
Yeah, sometimes I'm a slashdotdotdot or a metametafilter or a boingboing-boinger or what have you.
I'm taking a big step toward stuff that I want to do with my life, personally. The whole thing exhilirates me, but I also find myself having to push myself to do it.
The fiancee brought up the fact of comfortability. I know what I'm doing now, and I can give attention to long term projects that I want now while chugging on toward the professional goal and other things, I have to put the goals I REALLY want to do on hold, which sucks.
I also have an "evolutionary" theory for it, too. If you're not necessarily a big ambitious aggressor type of thing, you would do better not to make too much noise and have the security of tribe. While if you're big, ambitious, etc. you can stand a chance making a lot of noise and vying for the top.
Not saying that any one of us is big or small or what have you, but breaking out of what we know does take us away from a secure area, and I think the threat of losing security touches upon our deeper primordial selves, even if it's not necessarily direct physical harm that faces us.
I like salami.
Lex, you do know that 'comfortability' isn't a word, don't you? (Even in what passes for English over there! :-P )
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Stuff like that's why I like English.
Heh heh, comfort would have worked just as well. . ..
And I have to ask, how did 'cromulent' ever get introduced as a piece of slang?
Well, you know it's a Simpsons reference, right?
http://www.answers.com/topic/cromulent
I don't know how the jump happened exactly, but Simpsons is pretty popular. I don't think we'd be saying "D'ohh!" without it.
Ouch! So you insulted me. =0
No, it wasn't meant to be harsh like that link might've implied; I actually think it *was* perfetly cromulent; not linguistically correct, but comprehensible, and you could read the intention of using it for its different "feel" relative to plain old "comfort".
No, it wasn't meant to be harsh like that link might've implied; I actually think it *was* perfetly cromulent; not linguistically correct, but comprehensible, and you could read the intention of using it for its different "feel" relative to plain old "comfort".
Good point. . .even though I think I just had a brain fart and didn't make the connection between "comfortability" and "comfort."
I did the same thing when I used "analyzation" rather than "analysis" for at title to a college paper. I've seen other people do the same thing with "analysis."
In some sense, do these kinds of mistakes expose any inconsistencies in English?
I dunno about inconsistencies, I don't want to think about it that deeply, think about words of similar construction.
But I'd say comfort != comfortability, for starters... "comfort" would seem to reflect the comfort level of the moment, while comfortability would seem to reflect the kind of "comfort potential" of the entire situation.
Similarly, "analyzation" has a bit more a verb-y, action-y feel to it, while "analysis" feels more self-contained and definite.
Sigh. I might inadvertantly be justifying "misunderstimate" here.
=D
You know me, always thinking deeply. . ..
Read a week back in my Blog and saw another instance of me mutating a word, this time to fit into a haiku.
Silly me. . ..