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To: The Philosopher who wrote (45755)	7/15/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Hey, why doesn't someone do a riff on the word FICTIVE? Or FACTITIOUS -- another good one? Whee -- we could keep this up forever! <g>

To: The Philosopher who wrote (45755)	7/15/1999 7:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think you're smart enough to grasp it, so if you keep posting about it it's just because you choose to subvert your intelligence to your desire for conflict, which is not laudatory. Ahem. Don't you mean "is not laudable"? laudatory \Laud"atory\, a. [L. laudatorius: cf. OF. laudatoire.] Of or pertaining to praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; "the laudatory powers of Dryden". --Sir J. Stephen. laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable. See Laud, v. i.] 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition. Your equal opportunity nitpicker....

To: The Philosopher who wrote (45755)	7/15/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

A patently laudatory reply: A fictitious story is a story that is untrue. A fictitious article is an article that is untrue. Some sites that list fictitious articles (and labeled as such): Following many requests to see the ACORN service in action, Project ACORN have developed a demonstration version of the service accessible to off-site users. This demonstration does not use any copyrighted materials and is based on fictitious article, journal and publisher information for demonstration purposes. acorn.lboro.ac.uk How to interpret the result of your search (Note this is a fictitious article!) elsevier.nl Editor's note: The following article is fictitious. The intent is to illustrate how twodifferent people in the Puget Sound region, one a visitor and the other a Seattle commuter, might successfully travel around the area with the aid of recently completed Smart Trek projects. smarttrek.org Our demo is an access to a fictitious article. The one-year subscription for this demo newspaper is available for only... commercemaker.ch From the dictionary (Not OED...) Main Entry: fic·ti·tious Pronunciation: fik-'ti-sh&s Function: adjective Etymology: Latin ficticius artificial, feigned, from fictus Date: 1634 1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : IMAGINARY 2 a : conventionally or hypothetically assumed or accepted <a fictitious concept> b of a name : FALSE, ASSUMED 3 : not genuinely felt - fic·ti·tious·ly adverb - fic·ti·tious·ness noun synonyms FICTITIOUS, FABULOUS, LEGENDARY, MYTHICAL, APOCRYPHAL mean having the nature of something imagined or invented. [Such as an invented - fictious - article? -- FT] FICTITIOUS implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception <fictitious characters, fictitious story, fictitious article>. FABULOUS stresses the marvelous or incredible character of something without necessarily implying impossibility or actual nonexistence <a land of fabulous riches, a fabulous time to live, a fabulous play>. LEGENDARY suggests the elaboration of invented details and distortion of historical facts produced by popular tradition <the legendary exploits of Davy Crockett, the legend of King Arthur>. MYTHICAL implies a purely fanciful explanation of facts or the creation of beings and events out of the imagination <mythical creatures, mythical land, mythical adventure>. APOCRYPHAL implies an unknown or dubious source or origin or may imply that the thing itself is dubious or inaccurate <a book that repeats many apocryphal stories, an apocryphal science>.