> I can only imagine what a game of scrabble must be like at your house.
It must be nonexistent, as I don't play Scrabble. That said, my understanding of the rules is that you use a specific dictionary as an authoritative answer to whether you can play a word. That's fine, it's just a game, and games have specific rules. Natural languages don't have such specific rules. There's no referee to call foul when a word is coined in a way not to your liking. > In the interest of moving forward and freeing up my spare time I'll concede > to you that truthiness is a word. (Even though the red squiggle under the word > right now seems to be mocking me.) Just for kicks, I tested this in TextEdit, TextWrangler, and MS Word for Mac 2011 (the three text editors I happened to have handy this minute). All three spellcheckers recognized the word. It's recognized by my spellcheckers, and not by yours! Black is white, up is down! Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! We must live in parallel universes - in one universe it's a word, and in another it's not! Anyway, if you feel intimidated by your spellchecker, perhaps you have issues that go beyond this discussion. And no one's holding a gun to your head to make you reply - your spare time is your own to spend how you like. > We'll have to agree to disagree as to whether or not using it in a > presentation would make you look a fool. Sure, and in any case I'm not inclined to take presentation advice from someone who thinks words come from dictionaries. I'll note that you didn't answer the question I asked earlier, though - what word would you use in its place? Feel free to ignore this question if you want to move forward and free up your spare time. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348136 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
