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[telophase]

Dear Design Star Contestant:

"Functionable" is not a word.

Thank you,

telophase

Comments

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

It's not?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Items can be functional. They are not functionable.

[octopedingenue]

I think it's becoming (become?) a word, a specific subset of "functional" meaning "utilitarian" instead of "functional" meaning "able to work or be used (even if just barely)."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Looking online, what I see is that it's either defined as "functional" or as "the word that Jason on Design Star popularized."

[fileg.livejournal.com]

To quote one of Lisa Simpson's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast) teachers - it's a perfectly cromulent word!

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Not yet!

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

"Functionable" examplifies the intellectualificatory resultification of jargonizing repurposement when enlargementalizing smalliferous wordishness for maximallous syntactical inflatography in academicalized publicationness.

All clear now?

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

"Functionable" is a word if you were part of the Bush administration? ::ducks::