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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Using belabor is showing extreme, to emphasize the point.
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I disagree, for I reckon "belabor" to be the wrong verb entirely, and not to be "showing extreme," which phrase I find rather opaque.
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So are hobbits, fairies and trolls, but until mailmakers appears in at least one of the OneLook's 931 dictionaries, it doesn't even qualify as slang.
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A one-word compound for "someone who makes mail," and you have a problem, either with the coining or the existence? I don't think I follow your thinking. I suppose about the time one of these tells you "Catch!" and flings a thirty-pound riveted-link hauberk into your arms, you'd indeed acknowledge that such things exist, and quite independently of any solipsistic views on your part.
Bruce, final word here: you're running low on things to argue about. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
