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    [Adjective]  | "di*a*crit*i*cal" | \ ˌdī-ə-ˈkri-ti-kəl \


    1: serving as a diacritic

    2: distinctive

    3: capable of distinguishing


    Origin: 1749 ;

     Greek diakritikos separative, from diakrinein to distinguish, from dia- + krinein to separate {mat|certain|};

     [ "diacritic" ]

    1: Diacritic: a mark, pointer, sign to distinguish from another form, to give a particular phonetic value

      * e.g.,  ... Diacritic: the diacritic on the words between similar spelling had been manually added over the page to modify a letter of the alphabet. 

     [ "Automatically transmogrify diacritics in left-leaning pseudo-punctuated polymerase chains" ]

    1: Prompts that appear when you go to Microsoft Word's settings to disable its garbage automatic formatting, which are often consisting of largely outdated terminology

      * e.g.,  ... When I tried to disable the entire text being formatted instead of the row I've selected, I went to the settings and was hit with options like "Automatically transmogrify diacritics in left-leaning pseudo-punctuated polymerase chains" or "Enable duplex lexical abrogation in para-contextual subglyphs" in this retarded, god-forsaken piece of shit cocksucking fucking sucking doohickey excretion of a program. I'm switching to Adobe Acrobat. I hope Bill Gates gets cancer. 

     [ "diacritic bling" ]

    1: The addition of diacritical marks to letters that are of no particular aid to pronunciation, in an attempt to appear more worldly or sophisticated.

      * e.g.,  ... Joe: They tell me you're from Lindstrom, MN 

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