21-06-2025, 11:23 AM
MYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: Single words (appearing only once, so called "hapax legomena") are another interesting thing worth researching. They actually may be "weird" or not. Of course nothing prohibits us researching both single words and weird words 
Mauro: Yes, precise defining of "weird" words may be difficult.
But personally I am not very fond of looking for perfect definitions because it may put you into total block. Let me quote great physicist Richard Feynmann:
We can’t define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers one saying to the other: “you don’t know what you are talking about!”. The second one says: “what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?
I may try to make a list of "weird" words one day, if time and motivation allows. And I would do it just by intuition.
It would be a start, anybody could watch if, discuss it and eventually make a better one
Mauro: Yes, precise defining of "weird" words may be difficult.
But personally I am not very fond of looking for perfect definitions because it may put you into total block. Let me quote great physicist Richard Feynmann:
We can’t define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers one saying to the other: “you don’t know what you are talking about!”. The second one says: “what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?
I may try to make a list of "weird" words one day, if time and motivation allows. And I would do it just by intuition.
It would be a start, anybody could watch if, discuss it and eventually make a better one