I just found this out today and it is disturbing and you should not be okay with the paucity in our linguistic matriculations.
I have literally been saying this for at least 200 years. Today I find out it is not acknowledged by the English language rule maker dummies in charge of words.
Also, “matriculation” is the process of entering a University, sooo – dumb word, but you definitely thought it fit that sentence, so who’s the smart one NOW? Just keep that humility in mind while I make my case, your honor:
First of all: there’s no reason for this to not be a word. It’s not like it’s something totally made up that makes no sense like “matriculation” – it’s a word that is a mashup of “integral” and “intricate”.
integral: necessary to the completeness of the whole
“an engine is an integral part of a car”
intricate: having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved
“an intricate puzzle.”
So intrical means something that is so important that it cannot be extricated in any way from the whole.
I don’t like “integral” and I’m not replacing intricate with it.
You’re just going to have to deal with it.
Help spread it’s use and add this word into matriculate matrimony.
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