# Feedbackage!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedbackage/142270>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 12, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedbackage/142270 "2002-12-12T17:33:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedbackage/142270/21 "2002-12-18T05:52:06Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TWDuke \*  
> \*\*C) I was obeying a natural law, to wit:
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> > The Dope Corollary to Godwin’s Law: As a thread on etymology or ‘proper’ English grows longer, the probability of the use of the word cromulent approaces one.
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I’ve revised the rule, partly because it had a typo, and partly because I had a ‘Duh!’ moment right after I posted it.

_Godwin’s Law, Dope Corollary: As a thread on etymology or ‘proper’ English grows longer, the probability of the use of the word cromulent embiggens to one._

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**Author:** ![twincam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@twincam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twincam)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedbackage/142270/22 "2002-12-19T00:26:36Z")

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Re: “-age”

(1) Duke’s Second Law of Bureaucratic Inertia  
I know I’m restating the obviage, but if “Pro-gress” is a good thing, it’s counter must be “Con-gress”

(2) Missed the most pervasive -age word in our society - “suffrage” and its close effect-cousin, “sufferage”, as in "since women acquired suffrage, we men have acquired sufferage! Stop applying make-up in traffic and DRIVE! When riding shotgun, my main squeeze invariably begions to apply face paint, lip gloss, eye stuff, etc. when the car is in or is about to enter a section of road where things are not so smooth; I’m constantly amazed that it all comes out right, with no smears or smudges, almost as if she’s riding in a set of gimbals (such as in a nautical compass binnacle). ‘Mazin’ critters, Womenage!

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**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedbackage/142270/23 "2003-02-09T12:45:51Z")

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IMHO "preactive’ would be more cromulent than “proactive”.

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