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@ L --
Whereas I channel the TV version of Good Omens for that word...
:-)
...also, "effing" already means something else...
..also, "effing" already means something else...
Presumably this is not the usage you have in mind when you say the Gods are ineffable. :-}
According to the Oxford dictionary, ineffable means "too great... to be expressed... in words". From effable "able to be described in words", from the Latin effari, to utter. So it's basically like illegible, but spiritually rather than mechanically.
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@ L --Whereas I channel the TV version of Good Omens for that word...
:-)
...also, "effing" already means something else...
..also, "effing" already means something else...Presumably this is not the usage you have in mind when you say the Gods are ineffable. :-}
According to the Oxford dictionary, ineffable means "too great... to be expressed... in words". From effable "able to be described in words", from the Latin effari, to utter. So it's basically like illegible, but spiritually rather than mechanically.
If "ineffable" is an adjective, "to eff" should be a verb.