Dragaera

Pararectal - A real word?

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Sep 17 17:38:14 PDT 2004

"Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> writes:

> 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.

As I remember it, it was made up right here.   I think people were too
shy to say "I just pulled this idea out of my ass", and wanted a
cooler way to say it.  "Pararectal ideation" works nicely IMHO.
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