Dennisism #5: Canard, Canardo, Canardish, Canarding, Canard-bait, El Canardo

This is the fifth installment that examines words or phrases that Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) has rewritten to serve his own purposes. See here for the first installment and here for the post in which I explain (in greater detail) what a "Dennisism" is.

In this case, the term "Canardo" originated with the blogger Lester Nation. (AKA "rAtional" nAtion uSA). This blogger is the one who originally came up with the term (in reference to yours truly). Or he was the first to use it in regards to me. He claims he read it elsewhere, but refuses to cite a source. (Note: see update below. The source has now been discovered).

None-the-less I am attributing "canardo" to Dennis, as he took Lester's creation and ran like the wind, making it his own, as well as coming up with MANY derivatives. Variations on the word such as "canardish", which is an adjective to describe something that has the characteristics of a lie or the quality of one who is a liar; "canarding", which is the act of lie telling; "canard-bait", which is a "truth" that might elicit lies from another; "El Canardo", which is an insult name you might call someone you're accusing of lying, and, finally, the term "frying up in canardo oil", which (I guess) would be the same as telling someone you caught them red-handed lying.

All these variants of the word "canard" - all to accuse ME of being a liar - which is ironic, given the fact that it is Dennis who lies (as documented on this blog)... and which is why I recently declared Dennis to be the King Canardo.

Given Dennis' status as the king of canards, it is quite LOL-able that he is always complaining about ME starting a "crap-fest" (which is another neologism Lester invented and and Dennis ran with). A "crap-fest" being back and forth insult-trading, as opposed to healthy constructive debate.

But, that one person works so hard to invent his own "canard"-based pseudo neologisms in order to call another person a liar; is that not crap-festing of the highest order? Anyway, what this points to, I think, is that Dennis is QUITE obsessed with lying. Falsely calling others on it when he's the the one who is actually guilty of it (in that he lies all the time).

(for the record "canarding" might not be a variant that Dennis actually used, as I could not find an example; which is why there is no link. I could swear I saw him use it somewhere, however. Possibly in a deleted comment. Dennis has a habit of deleting comments whenever he notices me linking to them).

6/19/2015 Update: rAtional nAtion said previously (in a 7/25/2014 comment)... "In was in that context that the word Canardo, picked up from another fine wordsmith and operator of another blog was used. ... RN did not create Canardo, I, the owner of RN, simply borrowed and used Canardo in the manner it was intended".

I did not, at the time, know who the hell he was referring to... so I ignored what he said. Only recently, whilst visiting the blog Who's Your Daddy, did I notice another blogger using "canardo" (another blogger beside Lester and Dennis). In fact, this other blogger used/uses it quite frequently. That blogger? FreeThinke (see here for one example of a Freethinke use of "canardo").

What is odd about rAtional borrowing this pseudo neologism is that, while rAtional compliments FreeThinke, FreeThinke hates rAtional's guts (here Freethinke refers to rAtional as "Nursie Pooh"... because RN, while standing for "rAtional nAtion" also is an abbreviation for "Registered Nurse").

Anyway, the mystery is now solved. rAtional, the dude who refers to FreeThinke fawningly as "another fine wordsmith", was originally coined by Freethinke (although he may have picked it up elsewhere). I will continue to refer to "canardo" as a "Dennisism", however, due to the many (and I'm talking MANY) variants Dennis came up with (on his own). Neither rAtional nor Freethinke have (to my knowledge) used any of these other variants.

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