# Late Night: Colbert beating Fallon, and a stupid word in the NYTimes article about it

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**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-colbert-beating-fallon-and-a-stupid-word-in-the-nytimes-article-about-it/780545 "2017-02-23T12:30:39Z")\
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Perhaps a nod to “truthy”?

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It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-colbert-beating-fallon-and-a-stupid-word-in-the-nytimes-article-about-it/780545/23 "2017-02-24T10:50:27Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

See Posts #4 & #10.

**Enter the Flagon** - I respect your dislike of “smidge” (it’s a silly little word I tossed in for the sound of it in my head in that post upthread). But that’s different - “depthful”, per **pulykamell** (thanks **puly**!) is a weird, obscure word that exists on the fringes. Smidge is just a silly word that should only be used in silly situation. “Impactful” is a jargony word used by Business Tools who want to make actionable statements at key inflection points 😉

Depthful is just bad.

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**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-colbert-beating-fallon-and-a-stupid-word-in-the-nytimes-article-about-it/780545/24 "2017-02-24T13:29:30Z")

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I wonder if the writer threw “depthful” in hoping that Colbert would see it and start using it on his show.

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