I thought about protesting at "made-up", then decided to ignore it. Last, and best, I investigated.
I don't think ~I~ made it up; I've had the word in my vocabulary as long as I can remember. If asked, I'd have said I must have read it somewhere. But my spell checker didn't recognize it Friday, I now remember. No web source found a reference to the word. Even Wiktionary is innocent of it. I still think it's a better coinage than "facetiousness", but I guess I have to acknowledge that it's not standard -- nor even substandard. It's nothing. Well, it was nothing before. Now it's something :). --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other. -from "Alec Forbes of Howglen" by George MacDonald. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 13:55 Ah, of course. A made-up word. Accepted term is "facetiousness", which is clumsy but at least commonly understandable. --- On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 9:37 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > "Are you being facetious?", in other words. Facetism (which is how I > spell "fa-SEE-shiz-m") is closely related to sarcasm, except the tone > is serious; the hearer is expected to understand that the intent is not. > > Also, I suppose, sarcasm usually has an element of hostility in it; > facetism often doesn't. At least that's how I distinguish the two. > > -----Original Message----- > From: zMan > Sent: Saturday, November 6, 2021 18:37 > > "facetism"?? fetishism? fascism? fetishist fascism? (is that last one > redundant?) > > --- On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:45 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > I can't tell, Colin: Is this facetism? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
