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I don't need to ask about "smoking", it obviously comes from "smoking jacket", a term that meant a special dress coat worn while in a gentleman's club.
Heh, laws against using terms like "E-mail" and "cheese" are just funny. But then, we passed laws against "sauerkraut" and "hamburger" (and more recently, the Senate cafeteria stopped serving "French" toast and fries by resolution).
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I haven't read all the posts here (Internet time limit), so if I'm repeating someone, please, forgive me.
Now, my 2 cents: I don't mind if anyone makes up a word (I like teenagism. It makes perfect sense, without needing an explanation. Teenism also works), as long as they don't do it simply by adding "ness" at the end. I remember one such word (but not the word itself; sorry) in a church hymn, and was so irritated by it I couldn't bring myself to keep singing. I was completely pulled out of the whole groove of the moment.
I didn't mean that sentence exactally, I forgot the real sentence for my sainity. I just tried to write the simplest sentance I could find, I failed. But I suppose that it was technology.
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I've heard, amazingly enough, a context in which funner is a useful word. I do not recommend it, but "more funner" has been used to simply describe the difference between two things that are more fun than something else.
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