I had no clue this word existed.

[CStroman]

Antepenult: the third from the last syllable in a word.

I stumbled upon it while flipping through the dictionary. It's hard to believe that the English language has a word for the third from the last syllable, but not a verb that means "to make pointy."

 

[Kntx]

you mean "sharpen" ?

 

[Jzero]

What about "hone?"

There's a smarmy term for anything. Like "anacrusis"

 

[punkrawket]

<< I stumbled upon it while flipping through the dictionary >>

wow, i wish i had that much free time

 

[StageLeft]

obviate

 

[Rallispec]

to make pointy = pointanize

 

[fatalbert]

ahh... antepenult

from the latin roots ante, meaning before and penult meaning the syllable before the last.

 

[CStroman]

<< you mean "sharpen" ? >>



I mean a word that means "to make pointy" exclusively, like the German word "spitzen."

 

[Thrillhou]

All this talk about ante's and pointy penults. That is not a card game I want to join.

 

[Saltin]

Antepenult is a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[Kntx]

<< I mean a word that means "to make pointy" exclusively, like the German word "spitzen." >>




So when your pencil becomes dull, you say "I have to make my pencil pointy" ?

 

[Saltin]

Well technically speaking, "sharpening" something doesnt necessarily make it pointy. For instance, I can sharpen my ice skates.

 

[tweakmm]

<< Well technically speaking, "sharpening" something doesnt necessarily make it pointy. For instance, I can sharpen my ice skates. >>


you have ice skates :Q

 

[CStroman]

<<
you have ice skates :Q

>>




He's Canadian. Canadians like hockey.

 

[Saltin]

Sure man! I'm Canadian! I've been playing hockey since I was five!
If you think that's funny, you should come on out and give it a try

 

[BigJohnKC]

You mean "pointify" isn't a word? If we were playing scrabble, I'd use it.

 

[Rallispec]

pointilate

pointage

spitzinize

obiateness

 

[Kntx]

<< Well technically speaking, "sharpening" something doesnt necessarily make it pointy. For instance, I can sharpen my ice skates. >>





Of course, but almost all words have more than one possible meaning. It's all about context.

 

[Jzero]

<< Sure man! I'm Canadian! I've been playing hockey since I was five!
If you think that's funny, you should come on out and give it a try >>



Don't be fooled. He really means curling.

 

[Thrillhou]

<<
spitzinize
>>



Check my profile.

 

[tweakmm]

<< Sure man! I'm Canadian! I've been playing hockey since I was five!
If you think that's funny, you should come on out and give it a try >>


well... I'm part canadian, my aunt, uncle and 3 cousins live in Toronto and I have been there about 20 times... if that sorta counts...
and I've been ice skating once(it was in toronto actualy) and I was horrible. It was when I was 9 or 10 and i was really fat and not very strong, so my knees were buckling and stuff. It was not cool.

 

[Rallispec]

Thrillhou = short for thrill house?

simpsns rocks!

 

[CStroman]

<< Sure man! I'm Canadian! I've been playing hockey since I was five!
If you think that's funny, you should come on out and give it a try >>



Nothing funny about that. I live in Minnesota, so I've had quite a bit of exposure to ice, Canadians (my American history teacher is Canadian, now that's funny,) and hockey.

 

[Saltin]

<< Of course, but almost all words have more than one possible meaning. It's all about context. >>



I think the point is that "spitzen" has only one meaning, not that sharpen has more than one. Those damn Germans and thier efficency!!