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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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Chronophage would not be accepted by dico makers because in this case phagos can only be used in a figurative way. No creature asides from Cthulhu can eat time for its survival. If we could eat time we would never die. I'd love to be able to translate "time consuming", "prend du temps" is boring.