Entry: magisculed (v.)
Definition:
A tough one. My best guess is Wallace means majuscule. If so, then
magisculed (majusculed) refers to uppercase letters. Nowadays, that
tends to mean YOU’RE SHOUTING! Minuscule refers to lowercase.
Haphazardly mixing the two, is eXtrEMelY aNNoYiNG HabIT.
Other:
SNOOT score: 2 (You can probably work out some sort of SNOOTy rebuttal next time your boss sends you an all-caps memo)
Page: 24
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
I just assumed it was a portmanteau:
ReplyDeleteMagic Markered + majuscule
Nice! I like that better, since the guy must have had multiple editors who would have advised a correction here. If the Eds had final say, which they usually do, the portmanteau would've been the only way to keep it in.
DeleteNow mixing the two is accepted as mocking.
ReplyDeleteVery true and how interesting that new meanings can evolve that quickly, even in written language.
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