Does anyone else dislike "cromulent"?

That’s fine. I don’t agree but it’s not a topic I feel strongly enough about to keep on with.

This thread is just wallowing in its own crapulence.

Five of those six usages are in reference to vocabulary, though, which is in keeping with the Simpsons reference. Four of the six preface the word in question with the adverb “perfectly,” also in keeping with the Simpsons reference. I’d say half of those are acceptable, since they meet both of those criteria, and the other half (salad reference, “quite” cromulent, and just plain “cromulent” don’t cut it.

In other words, half of those uses are perfectly cromulent.

from Wikipedia

Mark Liberman, director of the Linguistic Data Consortium, remarked, “The Simpsons has apparently taken over from Shakespeare and the Bible as our culture’s greatest source of idioms, catchphrases and sundry other textual allusions.”

Cromulent ain’t a cromulent word if it ain’t cromulently in the dictionary?

Mmmmm. Croissanwiches.

Splunge for me too.

I know I linked them the annoying way but feel free to look for yourself. No one else in the threads objected to the use of the word in any of the examples which is evidence that all the usages were cromulent usages.

“Whilst.” Good hell, I’m seeing this one everywhere here lately. I don’t pay attention to usernames when I’m reading so I don’t know if everybody here is a giant douche or if it’s just a select and vocal few. Either way, that word drives me insane.

Ahh, I see.

Oh, I just decided that this should be a general “let’s bitch about the words people use” thread…

Ignore my post. I read the OP and everything, wtf. Cromulent is stupid.

I’ll try not to take this personally. I’m doing the best I can here!

“Wtf” is stupid. Way stupider than “cromulent”.

ETA The word, not the poster!

Nuts.

go ahead and embiggen yourself.

It shouldn’t, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

Try thinking of Oliver Cromwell (And his warts).

:confused:“Whilst” is perfectly cromulent, or, if you prefer, well established, common usage.

I am not too happy with “off-pissing”, though.

Get out!

Not in public!

I for one have a lot less of an issue with a perfectly cromulent word like “cromulent” than I do for bullshit trendy words that come and go like fashion.