Dysfunctional??? WTF? Why not disfunctional?

[chaska]

I'm thinking of declaring a moratorium on this dys crap. Unless someone can give me a good technical reason for this, the dys spelling is a goner.

...I swear, I'll do it.

[Taverner]

1. I think there is a difference between dis and dys

Dis meaning "not"

And dys meaning "counter"

so disfunctional would be not functional, and dysfunctional would be counter-functional.

Like "dystopia"

[WeRQ4U]

2. Why not go the other way, and replace all Dis with Dys. It's way cooler.

Dysgusting, Dysguise, Dysingenuous, Dysfavor, Dystressed. It's so rock and roll that way.

[jobycom]

4. Dysney.

[WeRQ4U]

5. Dyscovery Channel

[jobycom]

3. What better word to have a wierd speeling for?

By the way, do something about "rhythm." That's one F'd up word.

[kick-ass-bob]

6. that is a weird word. Is it 2 syllables with only 1 vowel?

[fob]

7. "wierd"?

:evilgrin:

[chaska]

10. I love wierd speeling....

it's tasty.

[jobycom]

12. What makes you think I trying for "weird?" Maybe I meant "wired."

[chaska]

14. No, wired speeling is not good to eat, in fact, it may eat you...

They have a nasty sting too.

[fob]

16. Or "where'd"? Like wierd jobycom get THAT spelling from?

[jobycom]

19. Hey!!

That was damn good! :rofl:

[jobycom]

11. Damn i before e crap! You know, I won a spelling bee in sixth grade

and now I probably couldn't spell the words I won on! :banghead:

[chaska]

8. Damn, you guys are geniuses....

Taverner wins the prize though for tweaking my need to be technically correct about everything and generally appealing to my anality.

Please be generous enough to overlook the shitty construction of the above sentence.

[jobycom]

13. I can't

even get my damn brain around the construction of that sentence! Geeze, mail that to a Bush speechwriter!

[chaska]

15. Hint: it's dYsfunctional...

but only a little.

[fob]

20. That made me think of something (that may or may not, be funny)

Why doesn't george bush* use a computer?
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because the stamps he* used to send his* e-mails ruined the screen!

[fob]

21. Did you just reply to your own post?

How dystasteful!

:evilgrin:

[chaska]

22. Don't you mean Distasteful? I can't taste anything...

no matter how hard I like the screen.

[fob]

24. No, I mean dYstasteful. Somewhere Y heard that the "Y" ys the new "I".

:crazy:

[kick-ass-bob]

9. Don't forget the DU favorite: LinneSyn.

:rofl:

[Zero Division]

17. I was surprised by that spell check correction yesterday.

I used "disfunctional" in a post yesterday, but then my brain suddenly gave me one of those "you-might-be-misspelling-it" moments. "Dys-" is certainly not a common prefix. "Dystopia" is the only other word I can think of right away that uses that prefix.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Stop dyssing perfectly good prefixes. (nt)

[chaska]

23. "Prefix", interesting word. To fix before.

How can you fix before? It ain't broked yet.