posted October 27, 2008 09:23 PM         

What do you think? I welcome more lexigrams and insight from you.

Where is Fayte?

posted October 27, 2008 09:36 PM         

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LEXX,

What do you think? I welcome more lexigrams and insight from you.

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Where is Fayte?

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posted October 28, 2008 07:52 AM         

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Can't see the posts here at the med school library, their computers are just a bit slow- I'll reply to you next time I'm online, okay? Please be patient with me.

D

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posted November 22, 2008 10:38 AM           

AN EON AGO
I ATE MEAT AND ANGER ENTERED INTO ME
NO RATION IN RAGE
IT MADE A GREED-GERM IN ME
I DID NO GREAT DEED
I AGED, AND I DIED...

I AM NOT TAMED
I NEED ONE TO TAME ME

IN A RE-ARRANGE...
I DID NOT EAT MEAT
I ATE AN ORANGE AND I MADE ANGER GO
AND I DID NOT DIE!
AGE AND GREED DID NOT ENTER INTO ME
I RAGED NOT
I REGRET ANGER
I GOT RID OF IT!
I AM TAMED
I DO NOT END
I GO ON ...

posted November 25, 2008 01:32 PM         

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I GOT RID OF IT!

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The lexigrammed words also contained "ORIGIN" but I wasn't sure how to fit that in. It could be talking about our own origin!

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posted November 25, 2008 05:52 PM         

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I hyphenated "rearrange" on purpose. Not sure why.. heh.

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posted November 26, 2008 10:39 PM         

It's the library's problems, then. I use their computers for Internet access.

Pumpkin Peace,

Very creative.

LEXX,

When a word contains "non..." or "re...", it depends on different individuals who either hyphenate or not hyphenate the following part of the word. So it's rather controversial. Both "non-physician" and "nonphysician" are in use. Personally, I would use "non-physician" with a hyphen. And "re-write" with a hyphen, too. When we lexigram, we use our intuitive knowledge to add punctuations such as a question mark, an exclaimation mark, a comma etc. to complement the lexigrams of an entity.

However, I must admit I am not an expert of the English language.

D

posted November 26, 2008 11:22 PM         

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Use the hyphen with the prefix re only when:

the re means again AND omitting the hyphen would cause confusion with another word.

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To check whether a compound noun is two words, one word, or hyphenated, you may need to look it up in the dictionary. If you can't find the word in the dictionary, treat the noun as separate words.
Examples: eyewitness, eye shadow, eye-opener
NOTE: All these words had to be looked up in the dictionary to know what to do with them!

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In the case of the word rewrite...
In the dictionary it is not hyphenated, just as in to recover as in recovering from an illness..not as in re-covering a sofa.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen

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Prefixes and suffixes

In general, prefixes and suffixes are affixed to another word. Certain prefixes (co-, pre-, mid-, de-, non-, anti-, etc.) are often improperly hyphenated, though usage varies between American and British English. British English tends towards hyphenation (pre-school) whereas American English tends towards omission of the hyphen (preschool). A hyphen is mandatory when a prefix is applied to a proper (capitalized) adjective (un-American, de-Stalinisation).

In British English, hyphens may be employed where readers would otherwise be tempted into a mispronunciation (e.g. co-worker is so punctuated partly to prevent the reader's eye being caught automatically by the word cow). The AP Stylebook provides further information on the use of "co-" as a prefix.

Hyphens may be used, in association with prefixes, suffixes or otherwise, when repeated vowels or consonants are pronounced separately rather than being silent or merged in a diphthong. For example: shell-like, anti-intellectual. In the vowel-vowel case, some English authorities use a diaeresis (as in coöperation, rather than co-operation or cooperation), but this style is now rare.

Some prefixed words are hyphenated to distinguish them from other words that would otherwise be homographs, such as recreation (fun or sport) and re‑creation (the act of creating again), or predate (what a predator does) and pre‑date (to be of an earlier calendar date).

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My point in Lexigramming is
when hyphens are used
to try to sneak in a whole word
by breaking it into sections.
That does not automatically make it become two or more allowed words.

For example:
Lets say the word you are Lexigramming has only one letter "E".
You cannot get the singular word REWRITE nor the hyphenated word yet still singular word RE-WRITE from a word with only one letter "E".
Words I have seen folks try to sneak in are for example:
RECONSIDER as RE-CON-SIDER when they have only one "E" to work with.
BEAUTIFUL as BEA-U-TIFUL when they have only one "U" to work with.
LOVELY as LOVE-LY when they have only one "L" to work with.
The properly hyphenated word RE-CREATION is still one word not two. It means to create again anew, not as in to play as in RECREATION.
Another thing I take issue with is intentionally mispelling a name (or word) such as for example; MAGDALENE ss MAGDALINE when they lack having two letter "E"s. Or as MAGDELENE when they only have one letter "A".

Another issue WHEN LEXIGRAMMING is this:
Slang such as ROX in lieu of ROCKS.
UR in lieu of YOUR
I C U 2 in lieu of I SEE YOU TOO

Abbreviations and acronyms with rare exception is another.
If one has the acronym A.I.D.S.
in my opinion it would only matter if they also have the complete phrase:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Of course exceptions even to that can be found depending on what other words they have that may reinforce the validity of that or any acronym.
However I generally do not approve of using acronyms in Lexigrams. TV for example can mean television or transvestite.

Mr., Mrs.....I usually consider OK to use. Also OK in lieu of Okay.
However I try not to unless I have all the letters to actually spell them out as Mister, Missus, and okay.
Jr/Junior is another one.
I have been forced at times as in Lexigramming to go with initials like for example:
Mister/Mr. R.C.=Robert Cratchet=Bob Cratchet.
Mister/Mr. E.S.=Ebenezer Scrooge.

However I usually try to avoid doing that unless there is no other way.

posted November 28, 2008 10:47 PM         

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My point in Lexigramming is
when hyphens are used
to try to sneak in a whole word
by breaking it into sections.
That does not automatically make it become two or more allowed words

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Definitely.

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For example:
Lets say the word you are Lexigramming has only one letter "E".
You cannot get the singular word REWRITE nor the hyphenated word yet still singular word RE-WRITE from a word with only one letter "E".
Words I have seen folks try to sneak in are for example:
RECONSIDER as RE-CON-SIDER when they have only one "E" to work with.
BEAUTIFUL as BEA-U-TIFUL when they have only one "U" to work with.
LOVELY as LOVE-LY when they have only one "L" to work with.
The properly hyphenated word RE-CREATION is still one word not two. It means to create again anew, not as in to play as in RECREATION.

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I totally agree. Abusing hyphenation to such an extent would awfully muddle the precision of lexigrams.

posted November 29, 2008 09:35 PM         

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Just make sure they have all the letters of the hyphenated word!
A hyphenated or suffixed word is still generally considered one word.

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Thank YOU for pointing out the exceptions which have no prefix or suffix in them. And even though I tend to hyphenate a certain words, such as non-physician...I would always consider them one word and would not use more than the letters there are in the original entity to produce any given lexigram. If I hyphenated a word with a prefix or a suffix in it, I would use that as one single word and not two separate words. Unless I make a careless mistake.