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DEFINITION: A unique physical or psychological trait, which makes one "different". Often seen as a handicap, even if it provides a distinct evolutionary advantage.
Verboticisms
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Alternationism
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: alter nation ism
Sentence: he had a classic alternationism, his arms were 3 feet longer than mine!
Etymology: from being alternate or alternative
Phenomaly
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /f&-'nom-&-"lE/
Sentence: Some believed that Humongo Wong's somewhat unusual features were merely a phenomaly, but he and Dr. Plasty knew that his lucrative porn career was in fact due to much hard work and a bit of creative elective surgery.
Etymology: from phenotype + anomaly
Hamzuk
Created by: lramakrishnan
Pronunciation:
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Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology
Aberlution
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: a bur LU shun
Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.
Etymology: aberration + evolution
Strangicity
Created by: townka
Pronunciation: strange-icity
Sentence: Rudolph always did have that strangicity...
Etymology:
Handivantage
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: 'hædi,vætıdʒ
Sentence: This third leg on the forehead seems to be a handivantage
Etymology: handy + handicap + advantage
Comments:
By popular request! A definition which suggests a noun as the solution. But feel free to twist it into a verb, or even an adjective, if you wish! ~ James
kmccardle - 2006-12-21: 15:03:00
So does anyone else not like this new voting set up? I personally much preferred the ranking system, even if this way is perhaps more fair.
chris - 2006-12-21: 16:11:00
Whatever you do still leaves the system open to mates voting for mates no matter how good or bad the word.....but it's just a game so who cares? The fun is from participating (for me, anyway).
Hey kmccardle, the rankings are still here -- but they are not on the front page anymore. You can see the complete list Verboticisms for each definition on the daily stats page. (On the first day this list is presented in alphabetical order. After that, the words are ranked by score.)
The other thing to remember is that this is still an interim measure. We are creating a clustering function which will allow people to play in smaller groups so that there will be more direct interaction and communication between the players. This should be ready for testing in the next week or so... ~ James