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April 29, 2005
Not so gnomic now
For some time now, I’ve been fond of the word ‘gnomic’. I had very romantic imaginings of what this word meant. I believed it meant dense, almost zen-like levels of meaning, myriad layers of such wonderful meaning that all possible interpretations could never be revealed, not even to the most penetrating of minds.
That’s all rubbish. What it actually means is “pertaining to or being like a gnome.” Cock.
The definition does seem to depend on the dictionary, but even so. I’m very disappointed.
Posted by Oliver at April 29, 2005 05:24 PM
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