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no comments....maybe we should invent more stupid words words to describe lifes of stupid peoples' mistakes? maybe like "stuponfucious"....I mean there is plenty of words to describe everything, just grab a dictionary idiot....



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So you read Penny Arcade also do you?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-12-10

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If the word catches on at all, its going to be used by gamers as a positive rating.

If you're going to make up a word, you should at least do it right. The word "pornography" originally comes from the Greek, and it means "writing about prostitutes." I'll grant that "graphic" has taken on a different meaning in modern times, but you just can't slap an english word onto a greek suffix and expect to come up with a proper word.

"The graphic description of violence," eh? OK, then. The best I could come up with for violence in Greek was "bia," which would give us "biagraphic" or "biaography." Yeah, so it looks a little like "biography" (interesting...), but it's a heck of a lot better than "killographic." We could make the "i" sound short to avoid confusion.


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pretty poorly coined word, i reckon.

i would prefer gornographic.

nothing like hooking up on some gorn.

gornography sound fun, hey?

...or, to take suho's approach, but with latin:

mortographic / morigraphic




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Ooh, Latin + Greek... how about "sanguinographic"?


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How about 'Stupidiferous' and 'Murderoglyphics' ?

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If you're going to make up a word, you should at least do it right. The word "pornography" originally comes from the Greek, and it means "writing about prostitutes." I'll grant that "graphic" has taken on a different meaning in modern times, but you just can't slap an english word onto a greek suffix and expect to come up with a proper word.

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"graphic" and it's variants are defined as a written or pictoral representation (since most early writing was considered "drawn", this isn't a surprising grouping). So in American English, it's perfectly legitimate (stupid, but legitimate) to say "killographic" to mean "showing killing"... I take more issue with the phrase "graphic representaion of violence" not only is it redundant in itself, it describes something that doesn't have an antithesis. How could you have a non-graphic representation of violence? Have violence shown that isn't shown? Blah. They're both stupid, IMHO. Just what was wrong with saying "contains scenes of violence" or "contains realistic violence". American's love "buzzwords". In fact, buzzword itself is a !#$!@#!@!!! buzzword. And we wonder why everyone thinks we "can't speak good".

Yes, Wes, whatever dip-wad came up with the phrase "j00 0wNz" and "llama" in a gaming context will probably love "killographic". Makes you wonder if online gamers aren't some bizzare sub-species brought about like some Godzilla monster from monitor radiation... More P.A.

Maybe they meant "kilo-graphic"... 1000 pictures... I hope they're of Monica Bellucci...


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That we're free to do anything...

Like I've said before, it's easier to make up gibberish than to learn vocabulary, yo.

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True, true. But it wasn't so much that as the absurdity of just slapping on "kill" to make a word. And besides that, it doesn't have to be killing, does it? Maiming could be just as bloody, or even bloodier! What about maimographic?

Sometimes I just want to kill people like this. Does this mean I have killomania?


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Sometimes I just want to kill people like this. Does this mean I have killomania?

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No, it means you're smarter than the average American.

I'd be happy if this were the stupidest thing we've come up with... but unfortunately, this isn't even close. Kind of makes you think maybe Douglas Adams was onto something!


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I'd be happy if this were the stupidest thing we've come up with... but unfortunately, this isn't even close

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How sadly true that is.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I truly forget sometimes how purely stupid so many of the world's people really are.

ugh.

Don't feel bad, it happens to me too - despite daily reminders from internet forums and TV

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Maybe they meant "kilo-graphic"... 1000 pictures... I hope they're of Monica Bellucci...

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i was thinking pictures of fat people

i sometimes forget how stupid I am



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Kind of makes you think maybe Douglas Adams was onto something!

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When I read the actual question that went with the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything", I knew he was on to something...

...there's something dreadfully wrong with the fabric of the universe...