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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
hm, "time-consuming"... ok, but it doesn't seem to have enough of the extreme "resistance is useless nom nom nom !" connotations for what i wanted... you're right, we should just use chronophage in english as well (last night, feeling lazy and disinclined to do any serious research, i cheated and used "chronophageous" in my mail, because it sounded more english to me. i admit it was wholly made up). because really, at this point, we might as well admit that the majority of our vocabulary is our own mozzled neologisms, anyway...
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The beautiful thing about English is that we get to make up new words and they eventually become a part of the lexicon. Like "Pythonesque." Chronophageous is, in my mind, well on the way to becoming a new catch phrase. Especially when I start putting it in meeting minutes.
"Dr Dribbles then presented a chronophageous argument that we should not use new technology because we might get sued. Or not."
