LWN.net Logo

heterological

heterological

Posted May 11, 2009 7:25 UTC (Mon) by gek (subscriber, #18143)
In reply to: NetBSD 5.0 by bfields
Parent article: NetBSD 5.0

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling-Nelson_paradox

An adjective is heterological if and only if it does not describe itself. Hence "long" is a heterological word, as are "abbreviated" and "monosyllabic."


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds