Topic 27 of 28: A synonym for "synonym"
Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (13:37) |
wer (wer)
Let's develop one. Suggestions, everyone?
49 responses total.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 1 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (14:04) * 2 lines
slimabup
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 2 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (22:39) * 1 lines
pareilism
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 3 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:06) * 2 lines
simsim
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 4 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:25) * 3 lines
equivalism
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 5 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:27) * 1 lines
identicanym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 6 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:29) * 1 lines
(aside: here's your domain name list, Terry...)
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 7 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (04:58) * 1 lines
seSAMEy
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 8 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (12:33) * 1 lines
rogche
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 9 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (12:34) * 1 lines
thesaurunym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 10 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (13:32) * 1 lines
anti-anti
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 11 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (14:09) * 1 lines
autumnism
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 12 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (01:45) * 1 lines
Did you see that, Autumn? Sounds like a compliment to me!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 13 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (09:16) * 1 lines
rietteonym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 14 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (10:48) * 1 lines
Afraid that's a contradiction in terms, Terrilym.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 15 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (22:07) * 4 lines
Anyone check out the visual theasaurus I mentioned earlier in the topic?
It's pretty awesome.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 16 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (22:24) * 1 lines
Not in this topic, Terry--maybe it was porch??
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 17 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (00:23) * 1 lines
Must have been.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 18 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (00:35) * 1 lines
'twas!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 19 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (02:04) * 1 lines
'tis!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 20 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (08:51) * 1 lines
'tshallbe!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 21 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (09:08) * 1 lines
similarium
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 22 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (09:31) * 1 lines
Sounds like a fish bowl, that one!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 23 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (10:30) * 2 lines
nymosym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 24 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:20) * 3 lines
ha-ha!
sameolthing
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 25 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:21) * 1 lines
syn
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 26 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (12:29) * 1 lines
nym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 27 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (14:13) * 2 lines
ymn
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 28 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (14:37) * 1 lines
yum!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 29 of 49: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (15:00) * 5 lines
verbachum
likenism
matchieonym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 30 of 49: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (15:32) * 2 lines
sim&ms
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 31 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (23:44) * 4 lines
my vote so far is for the matchieonym...
(hiya, Stace!)
alternarealitynym
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 32 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 27, 1998 (23:45) * 1 lines
alternagram
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 33 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40) * 1 lines
twin
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 34 of 49: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40) * 3 lines
(hiya WER!)
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 35 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40) * 1 lines
"similarium" sounds like a place where synonyms live!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 36 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 28, 1998 (01:40) * 1 lines
kinda like a definition co-op?
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 37 of 49: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (06:17) * 1 lines
Yes, and then of course there are oppolariums, homolariums, you name it!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 38 of 49: still the same old (KitchenManager) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (23:30) * 3 lines
Do we have a consensus on a suitable synonym yet,
or we gonna accept all of the above as synonyms
for "synonym"?
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 39 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (23:49) * 1 lines
They're all valid! Let's enter them in the Thesaurus. Which brings up an interesting question...what's another word for Thesaurus?
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 40 of 49: now a contemplating (KitchenManager) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (09:47) * 1 lines
hmmm...
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 41 of 49: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Wed, Dec 16, 1998 (16:23) * 1 lines
Lexicon?
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 42 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (22:59) * 1 lines
I think of that as a synonym for dictionary.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 43 of 49: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (12:52) * 1 lines
I will have to look it up. I did not think it was as generic as "dictionary".
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 44 of 49: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17) * 2 lines
Well, Autumn, we are both right. Lexicon is a synonym for dictionary and
thesaurus. In fact, the second definition of thesaurus, is dictionary.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 45 of 49: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17) * 1 lines
That is surprising! The type of thesaurus I've always used doesn't give definitions, other than a "shared meaning element." Pretty vague and not what I would rely on to get the nuance of a word, myself.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 46 of 49: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (16:17) * 1 lines
that's true, for true nuance I usually rely on Jim...
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 47 of 49: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Dec 28, 1998 (12:09) * 1 lines
me, too!
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 48 of 49: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Mon, Dec 28, 1998 (21:16) * 24 lines
I've got an idea.
Not the only meaning, but one meaning for 'lexicon' listed in this dictionary I'm looking at, says, "the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or
group of speakers, or a subject".
Let's say the subject is 'synonym'.
Then 'lexicon' could be listed as part of a vocabulary of 'synonym'.
Let's say the subject is 'paint'.
Then 'brush' could be listed as part of a vocabulary of 'paint'.
But 'brush' is not a synonym for 'paint'.
'Vocabulary' is different from 'synonym', although words in a vocabulary could
be synonyms.
Looks, with this particular meaning, like synonyms are a kind of vocabulary.
Maybe synonyms are a kind of lexicon, like maybe antonyms are a kind of lexicon.
I would look at it like 'lexicon' is too general a word to fit into a list of
synonyms for synonym, similar to how the word vocabulary would be too general for fitting on that list, like how astronomy is too general to fit on a list of synonyms for solar system.
But that's looking at only one meaning of lexicon.
And this is only one person's viewpoint.
Please recall, my viewpoint is a cough of steam rising in the mist of
(mis)de(mean)or.
Topic 27 of 28 [genx]: A synonym for "synonym"
Response 49 of 49: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Dec 29, 1998 (10:33) * 1 lines
thank you for clearing that up for all of us, jim, we knew we could count on you!
genx slacker heaven 
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