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Hipcrime and .
A person or persons using the pseudonym " Hipcrime " have attacked this and other groups with sporgeries, usually nonsense or Dissociated Press text posted under random names of legitimate posters.
The Hipcrime Vocab and other works by the fictional sociologist Chad C. Mulligan are frequent sources of quotations.
* The Hipcrime Vocab, a satirical collection of dictionary pseudo-definitions similar to Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.

is and one
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??
but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.
My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.
For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

is and Mulligan's
Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.
But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.
Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups.
* Mulligan's version is known as the Sea Ray.
David M. Pressman, Senior ( born July 10, 1939 ) is an American actor, probably best known for roles on Doogie Howser, M. D., Ladies Man, a recurring role on Profiler, the titular character on Mulligan's Stew and as a fictional scientist in the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle.
Truffaut was, in particular, a fan of Fear Strikes Out and was impressed that it was only Mulligan's first feature, writing, " It is rare to see a first film so free of faults and bombast.

is and neologisms
Because a compound word is composed of established lexeme they are usually easier to acquire than loan words or neologisms.
The early modern English prose of Sir Thomas Browne is probably the most frequently quoted source of neologisms in the completed dictionary.
The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting:
It is a testament to the word usage of Sabino Arana that the three words of the title are neologisms he created himself.
The use of the singular " they " is called " grammatical nonsense ", as are such little-used neologisms as " herstory ".
" However, the Wake's language is not entirely unique in literature ; for example critics have seen its use of portmanteaux and neologisms as an extension of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
The word sekkusu is also used in Japan for sex, and Japanese native words for sex ( such as 性交 seikō ) are often replaced by words of foreign origin such as sekkusu or neologisms such as ecchi.
This tendency is considered normal in children, but in adults can be a symptom of psychopathy or a thought disorder ( indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia ) People with autism also may create neologisms.
There is a conscious effort to adopt neologisms from Sweden, to avoid differences.
English words for mathematics typically have Greek and Latin roots, while corresponding Chinese words are usually translations of neologisms from Western languages ; thus quadrilateral ( from Latin quadri-" four " and latus " sided ") is generally less informative than Chinese sibianxing 四邊形 ( literally, " four-side-shape ").
The word " Cinerama " combines cinema with panorama, the origin of all the "- orama " neologisms ( the word " panorama " comes from the Greek words " pan ", meaning all, and " orama ", which translates into that which is seen, a sight, or a spectacle ).
His prose is magnificent and sonorous, but abounds in neologisms and strange metaphors.
It should be noted that Serbian and Bosnian language standards tend to be " inclusive ", i. e. to accept a wider range of idioms and to use loan-words, while the Croatian language policy is more purist and prefers neologisms instead of loan-words, as well as re-use of neglected older words.
This tradition of Croatian neologisms continued uninterruptedly in next centuries and is recorded in numerous Croatian dictionaries until the Illyrian movement in the 19th century when it reached the peak in works of one of the most prominent Croatian philologists, Bogoslav Šulek ( born and raised in Slovakia ).
* Serbian language is " unfriendly " toward neologisms.
One of basic tendencies of this language is to prefer loan-words over neologisms and calques.
In 1959, he wrote his most famous book, Pawn Power in Chess ( German: Die Kunst der Bauernführung ), which is notorious for its use of neologisms (" ram ", " lever ", " sweeper ", " sealer ", " quartgrip ", " monochromy ", etc.
In other countries, anglicisation is seen much more negatively, and there are efforts by public-interest groups and governments to reverse the trend ; for example, the Académie française in France insists on the use of French neologisms to describe technological inventions in place of imported English terms.
As the language is in a diglossic situation with standard Thai, dialects of the Lao language in Thailand share several features that set them apart from standard Lao: the adoption of Thai neologisms, code-switching between Thai and Lao, and influences on grammar and tone distribution which make certain standard Lao words and manners of speaking seem archaic or obsolete.
Among the more prominent neologisms which originated in Bambaiyya Hindi but have spread throughout India are the words bindaas ( from Marathi ( Bin + Dhast = Without Fear, meaning ' relaxed '; this word was incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2005 ) and Gandhigiri ( invented in the movie Lage Raho Munna Bhai, a portmanteau of Gandhi and-giri, which is similar to the English ' ism '( as in Gandhi-ism ), though slightly more informal ).
The self seems to disappear as word games, puns, neologisms and misspellings create a text that is hallucinatory and humorous in its juxtaposition of seemingly incongruous words and phrases.
Similarly, the only clearly productive plural ending is -( e ) s ; it is found on the vast majority of English count nouns and is the almost exclusive means used to form the plurals of neologisms, such as FAQs and Muggles.

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