Dragaera

Pararectal - A real word?

Fri Sep 17 15:39:51 PDT 2004

--- gomi at speakeasy.net wrote:

> > My nitpick for the day. A couple of people on this list have tossed
> this
> > word around now. From the context, I can figure that it means
> "speculative",
> > "conjectural", "theoretical", etc...
> > 
> > Try as I might, however, I can't find any evidence that this an actual
> word.
> > The dictionaries and thesauri at my disposal don't contain it and the
> web
> > keeps feeding me surgical websites dealing in and around certain human
> > orifices.
> > 
> > What is this word and where does it come from? Enquiring minds want to
> know.
> 
> It's an English version of the old legal term 'ex clunes', which is an
> intensified version of 'ex nihilo' when applied to the source of a
> particular line of reasoning.

Id est, "just thinking out my ass here".  It's well on its way to
becoming a real word, though, if the OED editors ever read this
list.

Jerry Friedman



		
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