Feeling Subdude
Isaac reported recently on an amusing spelling error that he spotted the other day: someone reported feeling a little "subdude". This seemed to me a very useful word, particularly as I found myself feeling a little subdude today. The word seems to me roughly as versatile as that coinage from over a decade ago — when the words made some useful distinction in computer hardware — feeling "lo-res" or, on really good days, "hi-res".*
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* True, "high-res" might be more appropriate, but violates the spirit, as well as the symmetry that "hi-res" has with the two-letter "lo-res"; "high-res" and "low-res" are just too square. Obviously, though, the hyphens are needed to keep the pronunciation meaningful; "hires" and "lores" aren't at all suggestive of the intended meaning.