Change one letter #3

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Beryllos said:
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Is that a word?
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You can’t be serious!
 
I am serious. I’ve never read or heard it, and can’t find it in dictionaries, and Google doesn’t find it in usage, but as a brand name.

Edited to add (see my next post): it is not a brand name, but the name of a software module.
 
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I simply typed in words by adding letters until I found a word in use, with a definition. When I Googled “mextends,” thinking that an “s” had been included (using an iPhone, AT&T, and the actual Google app, as opposed to another search engine), two choices appeared for the lower case “mextend” within the blurbs that appear, without even needing to click on the sites.

Google wants to drop the “m,” so I click on the tiny letters that say, “Search only for - - - - mextend.”

The sites are npmjs.com, and github.com. I just now verified the meaning by typing the following:
  1. npmjs.com mextend
  2. github.com mextend
 
I am beginning to understand.

I looked at npmjs.com and see that mextend is the name of a software module available there. That is not an English word. The website explains that “mextend means micro extend” but that is not a word definition. That statement describes the purpose of a software module which is named mextend. Software developers create module names with such names to help them remember what it’s for. As another example (not from that website), rsync means remote synchronize, and google finds rsync, but of course rsync is not a word.

I didn’t check github, but I recognize it as a software repository. Therefore I surmise that the mextend module is also stored at github.

In my next post, I’ll tell you how I validate words for this game.
 
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(continued from my previous post)

When I come up with a word for this game, I almost always check the existence of the word, and check my spelling, by the following method:
  1. Look up the word at https://www.merriam-webster.com/
    If it is listed there, I consider it valid and skip the remaining steps.
  2. If the word is not found there, look it up at https://www.lexico.com/
    As before, if I find it there, I consider it valid and skip the remaining steps.
  3. If the word is not found there, look it up at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/
    Again, if it is listed there, I consider it valid and skip the remaining step.
  4. If the word is not found in any of those dictionaries, I look it up on https://www.google.com/, but I take care to see that the word is used somewhat widely (2 or more websites) in actual English writing or speech.
As a recent example from this thread, “traddies” is a word that appears in none of those three dictionaries, but we’ve seen it here at CAF, and Google finds it at many other Catholic websites, where it means traditional or tradition-minded persons. Therefore it is safe to assume that we all recognize “traddies” as a real English word.

As another recent example, “overneaten” failed all these tests. It seems like it could be a word, and its meaning is easily recognized, but it fails mainly because we can’t find evidence that it is actually used.

This is my approach. I am not suggesting everyone should use it. Actually I only go through all the steps if I am convinced that the word is real, or should be real, and this is as far as I will go before I give up.
 
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Beryllos said:
As another recent example, “overneaten” failed all these tests. It seems like it could be a word, and its meaning is easily recognized, but it fails mainly because we can’t find evidence that it is actually used.
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I’m just kidding here, so keep this in mind please … overneaten whilst not a dictionary recognized word, came to my mind and would be a word I’d use to explain someone who fastidiously tidied/straightened a room - iow, they over did it when it wasn’t necessary to begin with. But yes, for the purpose of this game, I shouldn’t have posted it without checking the legitimateness of it. :crazy_face: 🤣 😂 🙃 😉 😇 🤭

(eta - just my own made up word 😉 )
 
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The word “overneaten” makes perfect sense to me! You won’t catch me doing it, though. I’m more of an “underneaten” guy.
 
as am I - fortunate for me that family don’t really care what my place looks like! 😉
 
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