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sarahhasler
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Date Posted: 17:39:38 05/14/03 Wed
In reply to:
Sam
's message, "Re: Here's one for yuh." on 11:00:31 05/14/03 Wed
I'd say that I'd look at you a bit funny, but understand what you're saying. Probably, what most people would say is, "I'd say he's a very compassionate, forthright person with a lot of integrity."
So basically what it amounts to is that MOST people would find "integritous" to be ungrammatical (in the linguistic sense of "hey, that doesn't sound right. I wouldn't use that in my speech/writing."), and instead would use some sort of adjective phrase (or would it be adverbial? God, I'm rusty.)
Of course, language change being what it is, there's no guarantee that in 25 years most people would find "integritous" to be completely acceptable, but for me, it's a lot like "irregardless"--it makes my skin crawl just a little bit.
>>Um. How would you be using this word? I think that
>>...
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>"I'd say he's a very compassionate, forthright, and
>integritous person."
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