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Bill Hirst
September 14th, 2006, 10:29 PM
Here they are, twenty marvelous defintions for the word "idioticon,"
with only one true entry. Your job is (don't look up the word yet)
to cast two votes for your favorite definitions, hoping to ferret
out the pearl from the imaginary. (I know, that's a terrible
metaphor.)

Vote by public reply to this message before Noon Saturday EDT. As
always, that's four hours behind GMT/UTC/Zulu time.


1. A machine used in the manufacture of buttons.

2. [Math.] any statement which is either always true or always
false.

3. In ancient Greek city-states, a person who was overly concerned
with his or her own self-interest and ignored the needs of the
community.

4. An image or symbol which applies to only one particular person.

5. [fr. Gk idiotikos] A dictionary of a dialect.

6. A remedy intended for a particular ailment or disorder; a
specific.

7. [Rare] a robot or mechanical man. (<Russ. _idyot_ "he walks")

8. A collection of personal memorabilia; a scrapbook.

9. a self-portrait.

10. A symbol used in an email or other online communication to
indicate recognition of one's own stupidity.

11. a device for examining oneself.

12. A horse-drawn cart with tall sides, used mainly for
transporting hay and straw. (fr. Basque: idi = horse, oticon =
wagon).

13. (geol.) a fossil or other relic of an older rock preserved as a
fragment in a later deposit.

14. A unitary, unique word with no known etymology.

15. Giles de la Tourette's disease - an uncontrollable twitching of
the face muscles [idios = personal + tic ]

16. An early form of a television-camera tube, equipped for rapid
scanning of an information-storing, photoactive mosaic. [Originally
a trademark.]

17. Shoe polish

18. _Psych._ a portrait or other depiction having significance
peculiar to a single individual.

19. A form of literature or filmmaking that treats real people or
events as if they were fictional or uses real people or events as
essential elements in an otherwise fictional rendition

20. In Sunderali's system, a group of oscine passerine birds
related to the crows, consisting of the birds of paradise and sundry
others, and constituting the fourth family of the cohort
_Coliomorphae._

Daniel B. Widdis
September 14th, 2006, 11:50 PM
10 can't be true but made me laugh. 5 is quite bold on the alleged
etymology. Both are likely wrong.

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Dan

Hugo Kornelis
September 15th, 2006, 01:43 AM
Hi Bill,

A completely crazy and obscure collection of defs for a ditto word.

My votes:

> 5. [fr. Gk idiotikos] A dictionary of a dialect.

> 16. An early form of a television-camera tube, equipped for rapid
> scanning of an information-storing, photoactive mosaic. [Originally
> a trademark.]

Best, Hugo

Dave Cunningham
September 15th, 2006, 06:07 AM
3 and 9 make sorta sense ... maybe ...

Dave

Guerri Stevens
September 15th, 2006, 09:57 AM
I vote for 6 and 7, but I like 10 a *lot*!

Guerri

Tim Bourne
September 15th, 2006, 10:13 AM
11 and 14, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

mshefler
September 15th, 2006, 11:32 AM
I'll vote for 9 because it sounds reasonable and 17 because it doesn't.

Paul Keating
September 15th, 2006, 11:57 AM
4 and 8

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Paul Keating
The Hague


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BobStone
September 15th, 2006, 01:28 PM
I'll vote, like an idiot, for #5 and #14, but if I had a third vote I'd give it to #10 for cleverness.

But #5 and #14 are it.

-Bob

Tony Abell
September 16th, 2006, 12:22 AM
I'll take 5 and 9 (with a nod of approval to 10).