I remember a WT with the word "happifying"
Now that's really stupid!!!
What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
by Alpaca 51 Replies latest jw friends
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AnneB
I read the title of this thread, thought up my reply, clicked open the thread, and there it was already...happifying!
That must have been the worst word in the history of the English edition!
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Alpaca
That's pretty stupifying... don't you think, Anne?
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snowbird
Electrifying.
For instance, it was an electrifying moment when the GC was identified - also when Franz mentioned that the "princes" were present at the assembly.
Sylvia
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John Doe
"Retarded" is not pc.
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AnneB
"Retarded" is not pc.
It is ident-ifying.
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Alpaca
Sorry, I did not mean to offend anyone by using the word "retarded."
I changed it to "stupid."
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mrsjones5
Looking up the word "happifying" on Google, this is what I found:
I regularly read a periodical written in the US which makes frequent use of the word "happifying" meaning, apparently, something which makes one happy or generates a sense of happiness. I loathe the word, and can't seem to find it anywhere, and wondered if it was a very recent US neologism, or just an idiosyncratic aberration on the part of this particular periodical's editors. I have done a search for the word in AWADtalk archives and came up empty, so hoefuly I won't be YARTed on this one either.
Yuk!
double yuk! torch their headquarters ;0)
In reply to:
a periodical written in the US which makes frequent use of the word "happifying"
I think this periodical should be named and shamed. We could deluge them with letters from unhappified logophiles until they promise never to do it again.
Bingleymax, I think you made this one up just to be original!!
Would that it were so! Here is one exmple of the abomination in use:
"An effort is made to reach people on buses and those who come to the cities to do business or to shop. This has led to happifying results."gadzooks!! it's an inflection of an OLD word -- would that this one had withered on the vine. (see 1955 citation)
happify - to make happy (Now U.S.)
1612 Sylvester. This Prince...One short Mis-hap for ever Happifies. 1656 S. H. Gold. It will surely conduce to prolong your days, besides happyfying them. 1786 I. Perkins Poems in H. R. Stiles Bundling To happyfy his life. 1837–40 Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 79 If that don't happify your heart, then my name's not Sam Slick. 1875 M. B. Eddy Science & Health vi. 315 To happify existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to elevate it is the true motive for marriage. 1892 Spectator 9 Apr. 497/1 Finding infants whom she could wash and dress and happify among the alleys and courts of the East-End. 1905 Daily Chron. 13 July 4/4 Her jargon about ‘happifying existence’ jars upon one after the Scriptural phrase, ‘making glad the hearts of men’. 1945 L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 12/2 Happify, to make happy. 1955 Watchtower 15 Mar. 182/2 Keeping these happifying thoughts in mind, we are determined to maintain our integrity faithfully. [OED]
I am mortified. _________________________
joe fridayhttp://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6036
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John Doe
You didn't offend me, just thought I'd point that out, cause I'm an asshole that way. ;-)
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AnneB
Gee, thanks, John Doe, for party-poop-ifying a fun thread!
