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If a booklet is a small book, a manlet is a small man, and a brainlet is a small brain—then a lanklet is a small lank.
Lanklets actually are manlets who’re thin and whose skeletal frames are narrow. Thin, tall men are lanks and not lanklets.
Still not convinced? How about this: What do you call a guy who’s skinny, narrow, and tall? A lanklet? What do you call a guy who’s skinny, narrow, and short? A manlet and a framelet but not a lanklet? Since the 1st example (tall guy) is larger than the 2nd example (short guy), why does the word for a tall framelet even have the suffix -let at its end? It makes no sense. Adding the suffix -let to a word creates a smaller version of it. Is a lanky, small guy a lankletlet with 2 “let”s?
Get your terminology right. It’s just “lank”.
Alternative View : Skinny, tall guys can be considered lanklets as long as their frames are significantly narrower than average lanks’ frames. However, this reasoning means that average-height, narrow-framed guys would count as manlets because they’re small.
Lanklets actually are manlets who’re thin and whose skeletal frames are narrow. Thin, tall men are lanks and not lanklets.
Still not convinced? How about this: What do you call a guy who’s skinny, narrow, and tall? A lanklet? What do you call a guy who’s skinny, narrow, and short? A manlet and a framelet but not a lanklet? Since the 1st example (tall guy) is larger than the 2nd example (short guy), why does the word for a tall framelet even have the suffix -let at its end? It makes no sense. Adding the suffix -let to a word creates a smaller version of it. Is a lanky, small guy a lankletlet with 2 “let”s?
Get your terminology right. It’s just “lank”.
Alternative View : Skinny, tall guys can be considered lanklets as long as their frames are significantly narrower than average lanks’ frames. However, this reasoning means that average-height, narrow-framed guys would count as manlets because they’re small.
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