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26 Jun 2005, 12:50 am

In case anyone isn't familiar with the term "neologism" it is defined on the Online OED as:

a newly coined word or expression

It's taken from the Greek words neo which means "new" and logism which means "word".

I thought I would start a thread for NEOLOGISMS. So I'll get the ball rolling with two somewhat related words:

Cognoscerate verb, 1. to think or ponder.

Ponderation noun, 1. a pondering.

Have at it!

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26 Jun 2005, 1:39 am

loverly adj. worthy of being your lover

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26 Jun 2005, 1:47 am

Platitudipus... an egg-laying mammal that says hokey, optimistic things...

Bushwhacking... where you screw everything up; yet still become the most powerful and successful man you know.... because the plot demands it...

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26 Jun 2005, 2:27 am

Hmmmmmm? and slight dramatic pause than Ponderation!

Pondernation of Platitudipus wrote:

I thought I would start a thread for NEOLOGISMS. So I'll get the ball rolling with two somewhat related words:

Cognoscerate verb, 1. to think or ponder.

Ponderation noun, 1. a pondering.

loverly adj. worthy of being your lover

Platitudipus... an egg-laying mammal that says hokey, optimistic things...

Hmmmmmm?

Cognoscerating as he went Ponderating the sky and
it's blueness as it bleed into shade of blue and ebony
swirls that speckled it like some kind of puzzle
of wonderment that on a mind of ponderation
could feasibly concieve. His mind then
congnoscerates these infinite beauties as the Platitudipus
species that once lain here under these beaches
that share a infinite sky above.

His relationship to this land and space is loverly relationship
to the now extince platitudipus and it's sharing of these
rippling shores that wash the beach with designs
that can cause a cognoscerating mind to ponderate
and then in a fateful sweep of the cruel waves they,
the ripples and the sand dissapate this thought to
this fate loverlyness that casued a connected to
the sea, the platitudipus and himself!

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26 Jun 2005, 4:05 am

I make words up all the time, but I can't think of any right at this moment... Maybe I should keep track of them..

I do have "meh" but that's become so commonly used it's not really my word (even though I created it (not implying that I created it worldwide))

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26 Jun 2005, 4:33 am

"sillyly" and "jollyly" - the adverbs for doing something in a silly or jolly way.

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26 Jun 2005, 8:05 am

Feste-Fenris wrote:

Bushwhacking... where you screw everything up; yet still become the most powerful and successful man you know.... because the plot demands it...

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26 Jun 2005, 8:10 am

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26 Jun 2005, 9:16 am

Asperific ~ comfortable with one's diagnosis.

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26 Jun 2005, 11:14 am

Asparval wrote:

Asperific ~ comfortable with one's diagnosis.

I like that!

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26 Jun 2005, 12:29 pm

bebuddy verb to get to know sb in order to be buddies with them, analogous to befriend.
Ex. I tried to bebuddy my work colleague, but failed and made him my enemy instead.

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27 Jun 2005, 12:11 am

Bofufem adj. two objects, animals or people
i.e: I like chocolate and strawberry ice cream so I ate bofufem at Baskin and Robins.

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27 Jun 2005, 12:54 am

"sillyly" and "jollyly" - the adverbs for doing something in a silly or jolly way.

I remembered one of my neologisms...

"Joshism"

(my name is Josh)

Asperific ~ comfortable with one's diagnosis.

bebuddy verb to get to know sb in order to be buddies with them, analogous to befriend.
Ex. I tried to bebuddy my work colleague, but failed and made him my enemy instead.

Bofufem adj. two objects, animals or people
i.e: I like chocolate and strawberry ice cream so I ate bofufem at Baskin and Robins.

Cognoscerate verb, 1. to think or ponder.

Ponderation noun, 1. a pondering.

compiled words wrote:

Josh performs a joshism and sillyly he bebuddies a
dog and cat by bofufeming them into the same room
as they cognoscerate this beduddyment thus
ponderation permeanates their thought and he is
scratched and bit! Ouch! Eeech! Hmmm?

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27 Jun 2005, 1:00 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

LOL

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27 Jun 2005, 1:02 am

Another from me:

I'd've
A contraction for 'I would have'
I don't see why we can't have double contractions...

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27 Jun 2005, 2:33 am

I can't remember what, but I recentely saw a double contraction in published work.

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