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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 15:06
Ah yes!  Distressed! Big smile Maybe thats what it should be?
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Do I look nice in distress?
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No! Good God man what made you put that on?
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Curiosity.

It killed my dog.
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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 15:23
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

However, call me an old fuddydudddy but I don't think Relic makes a verb!? 

It should be 'aged' no?  But like you say, if someone wants to and someone else likes it then that makes me
 
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that sounds cheesy, if I may say so with a slight bow towards your nickname in here Wink

as to "aged" instead of "reliced": "relicing" is one of the examples of that amazing feature of the English language which I mentioned
I don't think aged is the right word in this instance anyway - aging is somthing that happens naturally, like cheese or whisky. Relic'd is faux-aging so antiqued or distressed would be more apt.
 
However, as Jean says one of the glories of the English language is anything can be turned into a verb, (and any adjective can be come a noun, etc.) also it's a living, dynamic language that must be allowed to grow and change.
 
I'm sure that you can say furniture can be aged , as in deliberately made to look older - I will check with th Antiques Roadshow.  But, I agree (as I said) that any word can be used as a verb especially if it takes off and others start to use it.  I just think (as you proved) relic'd reliced relicked relict is just a bit clumsy when written.
 
 


"Distressed" is the term I've always heard with furniture, and as you say it avoids the awkwardness with the "c", although I'm as much of a fan of making up new words as anybody. A perfectly cromulent passtime.

"distressed"? hm, I just imagine having a visitor and saying to him or her: "excuse me, my armchair is a bit distressed today". I am certain I would get funny looks


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Distressed is in fact the proper word.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:


"distressed"? hm, I just imagine having a visitor and saying to him or her: "excuse me, my armchair is a bit distressed today". I am certain I would get funny looks


It would be an odd thing to say in the same sense that saying "excuse me, my armchair is a bit upholstered today" would be an odd thing to say.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Curiosity.

It killed my dog.
 
Not surprised.  The site of you in distress would be enough to limit the lifespan of any dog
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Distressed is in fact the proper word.

I know it is; I was just fooling around


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 16:03
 
Before this wanders off into perminant resisdence in Call My Bluff land I'd just like to say that I'm old and I like the best prog bands.
 
 
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Points: 64419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 19:11
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

antiqued 


"To antique" means "to go shopping for antiques" not "to make something look older."
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Points: 64419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 19:44
does it?

an·tique  vt
to treat something, especially a new object, so that it looks antique or worn with time
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 20:27
Huh. That is an alternate definition of which I was not aware.
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in the case you point out, my guess is one wouldn't say "They antique a lot",  but rather "They go antiquing a lot"
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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2013 at 23:36
oh, the antics of antiquing!


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Points: 13239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 04:18
Would offtracking also be a feasible term for what the collected collaborators and senior members are doing to this poor newbies thread?
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 04:39
Off-topicing would be a better word for it, I suppose.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 04:40
Thou' off-topicking would be more correct.Wink
 
 
 
Sure, but why create another word when sidetracking already exists? Tongue
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2013 at 04:46
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Thou' off-topicking would be more correct.Wink
 
 
 
Sure, but why create another word when sidetracking already exists? Tongue

If relicing is a correct word, so would offtopicing be Geek
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