Do you invent words, play with the language?

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A wonder of Wordo Wordies here at Wrong Plan't.
A lot of alliteration always on tap.
Playful poetics and of course prolific yap,
Rhyming and reason, and rip-roaring rants!

It is too early in the morning, even for me (excuses, excuses).

Some statistically minded student could harvest all the interesting creative wordage here and then we could add to it, and create a Wordipedia of sorts (Lexicon).

When I was little my parents always caught me using words in the wrong meanings, for example.

Mucsle = curb on the side of the road
Chocholate = steering columb on the old volvo
Katchup = wires stretched from telephone poles.

Apparently this is sometimes seen in children with autism, I was DX'ed around this time (age 4-5) but nobody knew this until much later in my life.

I often would also make up very long words, and according to them they sounded real, like they should be in a dictionary.

I do it all the time.

I invented the word betaswell, a variation on might as well or another form of should, needs to.

He betaswell get that laundry before I get my belt out!

I invent/purposefully misuse words all the time. I think I got that from my Papa (maternal grandfather), whose masterpieces include "germicidical" and "moleculites" (pronounced "melekalites"). My best friend and I speak in made-up words and phrases, inside jokes, and quotes so much that most people can't understand our conversations.

I love butchering the English language for some humor. I love puns, too.

I sometimes create words to suit my needs in a conversation. They make sense within the context, and I know they don't exist, but I get some kind of enjoyment from it.

Anyone else try to invent a whole new language? I did once. I started by figuring out what letters would be in the alphabet (a subset of the English alphabet). Then I made rules for how words could be formed. This determined all possible words in the language. I listed all the words, and started assigning meanings to them. I never finished.

This was before I studied any foreign languages, so it was really not a very sophisticated attempt. Now that I have studied some languages, I might try to do it again, only this time, I'll do it right.

I don't exuberantly twist and twirl the English language as I did when I was a child, but I still enjoy finding unusual ways to use words. Just today I used "hearty" to mean "containing well-developed characters and themes" in relation to a certain television show. The fact that I think almost entirely in metaphors helps.

invent words?

i vent in words rather badly, since anger makes me unable to speak... but i am almost laughinated right now. (caffeinated with bubbling up laughter)

-amanda-soda falls flat