| User | eener | | Topic | words: your creation | | Message | Hmmm, I guess the writing place is the best spot to put this. Okay:
List a word or more (if you have them) that you yourself have created, why you created it, and how you use it.
For example:
Mine is "Cive" (long i sound).
Question word translating from eener-speak to English as "Can I have?"
Example of use: "Gramma, cive a glass of Koolaid please?".
Reason for creation: Laziness. heh heh. |
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| User | magnicat | 2005-01-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | my roommate is great for coming up with words:
alcamaholic for alcoholic
lesbalonian for lesbian
ginormous for very very big
don’t think i’ve ever tried making up words, but now maybe i will try it! |
| User | Sandburg | 2005-01-08 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Hey, Tha, FUBAR and SNAFU are great, acronyms they are, like acrositics only horizontal. I think the o in won’t might come from would, as in would not, although we usually think of it as will not. wiln’t just kind of sounds lame though. |
| User | eener | 2005-01-07 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Thanks Sandburg, I will surely check that site out. And I do agree with you. Sometimes the ways in which you use words are much more interesting and unusual then any words you could invent.
Gee, I almost forgot I had posted this thread. Thanks for talking on it, everyone. |
| User | besodemuerte | 2004-12-29 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | i dont know if i invented any or not.. but i say words like "beautious" and "hugemungous" and "angrified" all of the time... |
| User | Sandburg | 2004-12-23 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Probably what comes across as more creative is the new use of old words or their use in combinations that weren’t used before. That is what sparks people as they read your lines. Consider these two lines,
In spring fresh leaves break out on the branches of long dormant trees.
or
Burds burst forth in verdant leaves on springtime boughs of quickened trees.
The terms "springtime boughs" and "quickened trees" are unusual, but the individual words are nothing new. |
| User | Eggman | 2004-12-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I can’t say I’ve ever invented a word...
Really, I’ve been a slave to the English language - I do my best to follow every rule, every pronunciation; and when I don’t I feel embarrassed... |
| User | Sandburg | 2004-12-21 | | | Subject | Words | | Message | You, my friend, would probably love a website called Word Spy. Google it and check out all the invented words that are making their way into print. These are obscure usages, the site will tell you what magazines or newspapers are using the terms and when they first surfaced.
As for me, I dont’ care for inventing new words. I like to make unique hyphenated words, like crackle-stiff for instance. I might also use a word in an unusual context, like making a verb out of a noun. I can’t think of an instance, but as an example, "Gerald stood in the cab elevatoring all afternoon"
Good question eener.
Dave |
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