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AlpacaWhat was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???


I remember a WT with the word "happifying"

Now that's really stupid!!!

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AnneBRe: What was the most retarded word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

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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AlpacaRe: What was the most retarded word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
That's pretty stupifying... don't you think, Anne?
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snowbirdRe: What was the most retarded word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

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 DoeRe: Re: What was the most retarded word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodi
"Retarded" is not pc.
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AnneBRe: What was the most retarded word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
"Retarded" is not pc.
It is ident-ifying.
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AlpacaRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

Sorry, I did not mean to offend anyone by using the word "retarded."  

I changed it to "stupid."

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mrsjones5Re: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

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)
 
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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.

Bingley

max, 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.


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John DoeRe: Re: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies
You didn't offend me, just thought I'd point that out, cause I'm an asshole that way. ;-)
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AnneBRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
Gee, thanks, John Doe, for party-poop-ifying a fun thread!
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Robert7Re: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
"heav'n" - In one song to make heaven a 1 syllable word to rhyme.
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snowbirdRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
Gee, thanks, John Doe, for party-poop-ifying a fun thread!

Yeah, it's downright mortifying!

Someone needs to do a revivifying of it.

Sylvia

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Awakened at GileadRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
How about the "remnant"... cuz Jehovah now is blessing them so much they are experiencing fine increases among the anointed remnant.
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John DoeRe: Re: Re: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melo
I always hated the phrase "spiritual feast" or "spiritual banquet."
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AlpacaRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

Remnant is a good contender.  It definitely gets the STUPID STAMP!!!!!!

It just goes to show you how ingrained that stuff is... to a person who was never a Dub it would sound stupid...but it didn't even dawn on me 'til you mentioned it.

Very, very stupid!!!!!!

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IP_SECRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

efficacious

pretentious isnt it?

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IP_SECRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
I hate the way they use the word Christendom too.  They redefine it to mean all the christian churches that are not JWs.  Thats not what the word means.
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Open mindRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

Mendacious.

(Previous song book.)

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AlpacaRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

What the hell did they rhyme "mendacious" with and why????

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men·da·ciousalt   Audio Help   /m?n'de?alt??s/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[men-dey-shuhalts]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.telling lies, esp. habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.false or untrue: a mendacious report.

That gets a STUPID STAMP!!!!!!!!

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AnneBRe: What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???
...mendacious...

Ooooh, I remember that song! When we sang about mendacious men I pictured thin warty cretins with flowing capes and thick, dark eyebrows over long, pointy noses....scary!!!

What the hell did they rhyme "mendacious" with and why????
I think it was "efficacious" and I don't remember why...probably something about how God was going to preserve us from the warty cretins!
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