User talk:Deklund

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Re: your edits at Flying Spaghetti Monster, specifically your statement

"parodical" is not a word is common current usage

My dear Wiki colleage, if we removed all words not commonly heard on the street, Wiki would be about as stupid as popular culture.

I will leave your edit, but I hope in the future you will leave alone any words that might make people expand their vocabulary above the typical Reader's Digest 8th grade level.

-Ayeroxor 18:35, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Any good manual of style will strongly advise against taking a word of one part of speech and trying to mold it to another by adding a standard suffix where it doesn't belong; e.g. "Economics-wise, Reagan was a conservative president." The only dictionary that accepts "parodical" I could find is the 1913 Webster dictionary, which is obviously out of date. If you really want to adjectivify (oops! I just did it) the word "parody," you should've used the more common "parodic" rather than tacking on an extra "-al" on to the end.

The goal of an encyclopedia is not to "expand the vocabulary" of its reader by throwing out non-standard or otherwise esoteric words (the Wikipedia manual of style specifically advises against unexplained jargon, for example); rather, to simply and eloquently describe whatever topic the user wishes to learn about. I don't see how the introduction of the pseudo-word "parodical" was essential to conveying the true essence of the "flying spaghetti monster."

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!

Deklund 03:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Ahh. The only reason I responded was because I found it at Dictionary.com with a copyright of The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. -Ayeroxor 18:48, August 17, 2005 (UTC)