Phanerothyme
05-10-2003, 19:29
With apologies to anyone who can't give a rat's arse about about other people talking a load of old toot....
Sir,
With regard to your use of the cacographic word ‘Cactacophagy’ Being as no such word to is to be found to describe the eating of a small dumpling cactus known as Peyote, in a search of several dictionaries and the net. Perhaps the Greek form ‘cactacophagia’ would not be such cacology. Maybe the ingestation of 3,4,5-Trimethoxybenzeneethanamine would surfice, or would that be a synthetic case of cacography and cacology.
I remain Sir,
Your Humble (ever so) Servant,
CW.
Dear Sir,
As quality control manager at CC & CC (Cacology, Cacography and Cacophony Control) I am distressed that you should find your newly minted neologism cactacophagy not sufficient for your porpoises.
May I assure you that we craft our neologisms with loving care and every facet of linguistic legerdemain was taken into account when choosing the suffix -phagy in preference to the more latinate sounding but nevertheless interchangeable -phagia.
I am given to understand that the maturation period of lophophora williamsii is close to 25 years, nearer 40 or 50 in the most prized specimens. I am also given to understand that they are now in scarce supply to to overcollecting. It grows now mainly in areas designated by the Native American Church so that they may conduct their own rituals.
Trichocereus Pachanoi is another member of cactacae with similar reported patterns of use, but it is a common landscaping cactus in Southern California, where it flourishes. It sports a range of phenethylamines, in particular 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine.
Our Sign/Signifier Link Testing Facility has validated cactacophagy with a cascade probability of .77 as having the meaning 'to consume cactus', including the two species mentioned above. This certifcate is available for your inspection subject to an obscenely large administration fee.
I remain,
Yours faithfully
Rev. P. H. Anerothyme
Edited as requested - Lickszz
Sir,
With regard to your use of the cacographic word ‘Cactacophagy’ Being as no such word to is to be found to describe the eating of a small dumpling cactus known as Peyote, in a search of several dictionaries and the net. Perhaps the Greek form ‘cactacophagia’ would not be such cacology. Maybe the ingestation of 3,4,5-Trimethoxybenzeneethanamine would surfice, or would that be a synthetic case of cacography and cacology.
I remain Sir,
Your Humble (ever so) Servant,
CW.
Dear Sir,
As quality control manager at CC & CC (Cacology, Cacography and Cacophony Control) I am distressed that you should find your newly minted neologism cactacophagy not sufficient for your porpoises.
May I assure you that we craft our neologisms with loving care and every facet of linguistic legerdemain was taken into account when choosing the suffix -phagy in preference to the more latinate sounding but nevertheless interchangeable -phagia.
I am given to understand that the maturation period of lophophora williamsii is close to 25 years, nearer 40 or 50 in the most prized specimens. I am also given to understand that they are now in scarce supply to to overcollecting. It grows now mainly in areas designated by the Native American Church so that they may conduct their own rituals.
Trichocereus Pachanoi is another member of cactacae with similar reported patterns of use, but it is a common landscaping cactus in Southern California, where it flourishes. It sports a range of phenethylamines, in particular 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine.
Our Sign/Signifier Link Testing Facility has validated cactacophagy with a cascade probability of .77 as having the meaning 'to consume cactus', including the two species mentioned above. This certifcate is available for your inspection subject to an obscenely large administration fee.
I remain,
Yours faithfully
Rev. P. H. Anerothyme
Edited as requested - Lickszz