08-23-2024, 07:52 PM
Collapsed We Swear Wrote:I must confess, I don't know what the word "plithy" means. I suspect it's joycean but am embarrassed to say I can't place it. If I were to guess I would say it's from Finnegans Wake, a portmanteau of "pithy" and "lithe"—concise and flexible. So, I'll take it as a compliment.HA! This bad typist added 'L' to pithy, so please don't be embarrassed. I must say, you took a wonderfully creative guess at my mangled word, though. I take your amalgam as a compliment. I was not attempting to be deep- only pithy.
Collapsed We Swear Wrote:I must confess, I don't know what the word "plithy" means. I suspect it's joycean but am embarrassed to say I can't place it. If I were to guess I would say it's from Finnegans Wake, a portmanteau of "pithy" and "lithe"—concise and flexible. So, I'll take it as a compliment.HA! This bad typist added 'L' to pithy, so please don't be embarrassed. I must say, you took a wonderfully creative guess at my mangled word, though. I take your amalgam as a compliment. I was not attempting to be deep- only pithy.