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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The llama.

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Examples

  • You could drop horror and wonder and add yamma and gooble as nominative markers, but this would be like dropping azure and adding cerulean, dropping jade and adding emerald.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • I'm just saying that odds are some 'yamma or gooble' will likely prove functional, even if others will not.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • Why would we all deconstruct and reconstruct our bodies and/or our psyches so completely as to become crab-monkey-flipper-things feeling crab-monkey-flipper-affects of yamma and gooble?

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • The shared psychology would remain, with bolted-on yamma and gooble as little more than superficial differences -- like the dorsal arm or eyes in the back of your head.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • You can inhibit fear, stimulate joy, and so on, but I don't believe you can replace them with yamma and gooble.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • As for "shared psychology would remain, with bolted-on yamma and gooble as little more than superficial differences" - this seems to presume that emotions are discrete, doesn't it?

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • So tell me, what is it that makes yamma or gooble impossible?

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • As for the 'socio-cultural functionality' of yamma and gooble, like I said earlier, that strikes me as a 'horseless carriage' argument - "I don't see a role for it now, so there's likely no role for it in the future."

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • Similarly, your scenario offers no reason to assume we'll all rush out to replace our wonder with yamma and our horror with gooble.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • This actually reinforces my point about yamma and gooble.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

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