Comments on: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

By: Darrian

Darrian — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:38 +0000

Thanx for clearing the meaning of that word up Marina. You are obviously more than just a pretty face

By: leonard

leonard — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:28:06 +0000

I sure like how you can think! S*U*P*(P)*E*R [pool] as to play pool with cue-ball and pool sticks???…do you play [billiards]?? be GOOD

By: ray69

ray69 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:53:09 +0000

You are right, Marina has build up my thirst for new words / history of the words.

By: michael r

michael r — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:48:36 +0000

yes you are very Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious lol

By: spelcheck

spelcheck — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:21:36 +0000

WHATEVER

By: hs4mm

hs4mm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:44:05 +0000

. What supercalifragilisticexpialidocious really means: In studying this word, we must maintain the following context: The ancient Greeks were individualistic and proud people -- the idea of feeling guilt for being good would never have occurred to them -- the mere thought of atoning for beauty would be anathema to them -- they would exalt in being good. To recap Marina's identification of the various parts of the word: super{ extreme }-cali{ beauty }-fragilistic{ delicate }-expiali{ to satisfy }-docious{ educable }. Now the parts need to be combined as per the rules of English morphology. But as per English Morphology, the morpheme -istic is a suffix, and the morpheme ex- is typically a prefix; so we actually have two words: supercalifragilistic and expialidocious. The first means a person of extreme, delicate beauty; and the second means to successfully teach an educable person. But the concept of a person who can successfully teach an educable person is rather useless -- after all, the success of the teaching is more or less guaranteed by the student being educable! In contrast, the concept of a person who has not just the ability to teach educable ones but the ability to induce a love of learning -- the concept of a person who can induce a thirst for knowledge and quench that thirst -- is useful. To convey this new concept, we need to reverse the order of the two parts of the word, thus: docious-expiali. Although English Morphology does not allow us to form a such a word, it allows us to use expiali-docious as a terminator of a word with the order of the thoughts reversed when the preceding letter is a 's' -- a mnemonic for this rule is the letter 's' thought of as being a left arrow on top of a right arrow thereby signifying a "change in the order of the thoughts that follow". So, finally, we have not two but just one word:
supercalifragilistisexpialidocious
super{ extreme }-cali{ beauty }-fragilistis{ delicate }- { reverse order of what follows } expiali{ to satisfy }-docious{ educable } meaning:
An extreme, delicate beauty who causes a thirst for knowledge in people and satisfies that thirst
It is now clear why the word that best describes Marina is supercalifragilistisexpialidocious. --Hs4Mm .

By: drmichael82

drmichael82 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:07:13 +0000

Wow! 5 stars… should have spent a bit more time on the actual derived meaning of the the word, 5 estrellas [nonetheless].

By: 101kasi

101kasi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:09:10 +0000

Sí

By: kickingbassguitar

kickingbassguitar — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:54:43 +0000

I had no idea that this word has such deep meaning. I can’t see why beauty would have to be atoned for, nor condemned. I don’t think that I’ll ever look at Mary Poppins the same way again. I’m glad that I get to look at my excellent teacher again though.

By: ozric1985

ozric1985 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:36:36 +0000

Marina,

You are definitely Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

John