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
Now mixing the two is accepted as mocking.
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