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Originally Posted by khalleron
Just another outbreak of Dan's nuvoleximania.
I knew I'd get to use that sometime!
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I love that word!
But really, khalleron, this vaporpapers word is NOT mine, i swear swear swear on a Nuvoleximania bible that it is not mine. Really. It's true i like to read about new words, and once in while try my hand at coining one, most of which are worthless and don't stick -- but a recent one I coined was reported by the New York Times on January 31 (On Language column by Ben Zimmer, he emailed me out of the blue and asked me how i came up with that word -- "crash blossoms" for weird strange headlines that are grammatically correct but look and sound strange at first glance -- and then the N Y Times factchecker dept emailed me and asked if I was the person who coined the term etc etc, they really do employ factcheckers at the Times still, that's good to know, the article was titled "Crash Blossoms" with artwork by some design team in Verona, Italy, .....but this vaporpapers is not my cup of tea and not my word at all, please believe me. And please also know that i do have a sense of humor about my neurotic nuvoleximania (thanks for giving me that word, now i can tell my shrink there's a word for my illness! ha! ) and vaporpapers was really coined by another person.
That said, and i hope you will believe me, really, ....this discussion has been intersting and Darren's last comment was good, too. Yes, if ww iii does break out, paper books will not last long, sure, and i do hope future people can keep digital books alive on disks until the power comes back on, which as dessertgrandma said, it will come back on eventually.
So I am in agreement with everyone here, Darren, too.