Tobacco.
Accolades.
Tobaccolades.
I just read that of adolescents who try cigarettes, only one-third of them go on to become regular smokers.
Which makes sense*, given that a synonym for that age group makes up only one-third of the name of tobacco's addictive agent.**
Nicotine.
Teenager.
Nicoteenager.
* It makes sense if language correlates to reality in random ways, that is.
Arbitrary.
Rarity.
Arbitrarity.
** Syllabically, that is.
Spelling-wise, it makes up half.
But most people care more about speaking than writing, right? (He asked, in writing.)
Bore.
Orthography.
Borethography.
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Whaddja say?
ReplyDeleteWhich part?
ReplyDeleteThe part about "nicotine" being three syllables?
Or about how "teen" is one of those three syllables, phonetically but not orthographically?
Or about how I've correlated that one-out-of-three ratio to the one-out-of-three ratio of teenagers who keep smoking regularly to those who have tried?
Redundant.
Antics.
Redundantics.
Or did you mean something else?
The part about speaking versus writing (of course!).
ReplyDeleteAhhh.
ReplyDeleteThen, thanks for reading this writing.
Look forward to speaking to you soon, whichever one you care more about.
Written.
Tendencies.
Writtendencies.
I care about everything I do.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of "Spoken Word". As if something other than words will be spoken?
See you soon man!
Things that aren't words that can be spoken:
ReplyDeleteLetters, if letters aren't also words.
(Which eliminates a, bee, see, gee, i, jay, oh, pea, cue, tee, you, why, and maybe some others that you could make cases for...
But there are at least some letters that are not words but that CAN be spoken.)
Also, how about gibberish?
Tongues.
Guessing.
Tonguessing.