This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
- I dunno about the copyright, nor how to fit this into the article, but I find the word's origin from the Word origin from the Oxford Compass CD-ROM to be egregiously funny:
mid 16th cent. (originally meaning remarkably good): from Latin egregius illustrious, literally standing out from the flock, from ex- out + grex, greg- flock. The current sense probably arose as an ironical use.
- Hordriss: So egregious has become egregious. How long before the universe breaks from the torsion?
- Oddly enough, as I was navigating away from this page, a guy on the news used the word. Funny as heck, if you ask me. — Shadow Dog
Some Sort Of Troper: Yes we use egregious enough that it has become a widely shared and beloved joke that someone has extended onto a Just for Fun page that also provides a small degree of helpful information. I would now argue against the cut reason (something like "broken page", "overtly racist" or "initialism") but I don't actually seem to have one before me.
Prfnoff: If you need an argument, I think it's better to have several hundred links to a footnote/joke page than it is to have several hundred Pot Holes to TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game. I haven't finished changing that yet, either. (To my credit, I've just written the word out in some examples.) And the Carthaginian solution used for I Am Not Making This Up would be grammatically infeasible with Egregious.
Fighteer: I'm not sure why we needed to separate egregious from the drinking game, since that was the entire point of using that Pot Hole in the first place.
Prfnoff: The problem with TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game is that, with editors essentially making up all the rules as they go along, it's the wiki equivalent of Calvinball, only a little less disorganized. (The Calvinball trope, on the other hand, is a respectably organized page.)
Trogga: I can't be the only one who just finds it all annoying and unfunny.
BritBllt: Yeah, this makes no sense. Because the potholes of "egregious" to the Drinking Game were too numerous, it now links to... itself? Who wants to read an article defining the word egregious? The purpose of the pothole is to inform people of the drinking game. Organized or disorganized, that drinking game page is the only reason for the word to be linked to anything.
