Autological words
Autological words
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Portmanteau!
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logophiles when they see the word "fuckable"
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Sesquipedalian is autological because sesquipedalian means 'having many syllables or using long, complex words.'
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"Lisp" 🤓
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Four
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Here's the opposite:
The work calque is a loanword, and the word loanword is a calque
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Nice calque
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Nice calque, bro
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Is the word "heterological" homological or heterological?
If it is heterological, then it must be homological.
If it is homological, then it must be heterological.
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Don't worry, I wrote a program that can find the answer for you. It's been running for a while though...
Maybe somebody could come up with a program to determine if my program will halt or continue forever?
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The answer is 42.
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None, we assumed the classification was binary, but these words are called Grellingian Words
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What are you trying to do, kill robots?
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This is a setup for someone to ponder if the word "nonautological" is an autological word or not.
It is a one word encapsulation of the same paradox created by the phrase "this sentence is false."
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"I'm going to go ahead and say that's true" - Wheatley
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So if it isn't, does that mean nonautological is nonautological? Which makes it autological again?
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It would be a Grellingian Word
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Are names of colors also autological words if they are written in their own color?
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I don't think so, but try writing it in a color different than the color of the word to really mess with people's head.
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This.
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Example
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Me.
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Bird is the word
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ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
uhm mah mao mao ba uhm mah mao mao
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Word.
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So close.
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The word autological is autological.
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Huh. That makes sense.
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" Who would've thought " ahh fact.
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The word fuck is fucked as fuck