Do you invent words, play with the language?

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William Shakespeare was known for his "way with words". Many of our English language words and phrases came from his imaginative ways of using the language. This has been listed as an aspie trait.

" ... someday JJ expects great things from Johnny --as he's always playing with the milk box --always coming up with some big word and explanation." --from my baby book at the age of 2 years.

I notice that at a recent mention that Alan Watts was a Vedantist, I immediately coined "Upanishadist" for myself. I have always seemed to use language as Shakespeare did, coming up with words and unconventional usage and phrasing.

I ran into this recently by a comment where another poster said I didn't use language about genetics in a way that he has heard biologists speak, as another example.

I LOVE language games! My two sons and I are always inventing language games. My husband, whose native language is not English, really doesn't get what we are doing, and thinks it's weird, but we have a lot of fun.

I do, but it's also a Southern thing. I've termed people 'hard of listening' before. I come up with sayings that may or may not be true, but sound good...

i invent words occasionally, especially when i need them for poems.

'strawtch'

'slippy'

'slideways'

Howdy, Y'all, my maternal side is Southern American of Irish descent, with a bit of English thrown in for good measure.

Have you ever read any of the books by Richard Chase, the Apalachain (?sp, been away from home for awhile) Folklorist? A lot of interesting "turns of phrase" in his writings.

Yes, I like to mix words and contexts for their semantic effect. It takes awhile to make them elaborate, though. I used to like doing that, especially in Creative Writing class many years ago.

Mostly a hobby.

Have you heard anything like this before:

Prologue to The Cantilever Tales:

Whon th*t Aprille, swithen potrezebie,
The burgid prilly gives one heeby jeebie.
Do pairdish Kansas City Harry Truman,
Though brillig to the schlepper, Alfred Newman

Or a very familiar example:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

or American GI:

HotShot Ralston on the Rillerah!
(the Pacific war; the Japanese couldn't pronounce R's, or maybe it's L's?)

Hey, Joe, what's new from Kokomo?

KILROY WAS HERE!

Skiddley Oten Doten Dattun, What A Kachoo!

Or how about a famous Groucho Marx routine:

Bee Aay Bay, Bee Eee Bee, Bee Eye Bicky Bye,
Bee Ohh Bow, Bay Bee Bye Bow Bee You Boo,
Bay Bee Bye Bow Booo!

I am familiar with Jabberwocky. When we were kids in grade school, our English teacher gave us that poem and had us pick out the nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc., based on word location, suffixes, etc. I was really good at that. I LOVED diagramming sentences.

Yes, I do play word games, invent words, etc. I also enjoy communicating with various non-verbal noises and animal sounds haha but that is another discussion, I think.

I like speaking Pig Latin and speaking backwards.

Tonight's word,

Copebie, a person who thinks ASDs should be coped with, not cured.

I memorized Jabberwocky by the 8th grade.

I also occasionally use the term "starting something hot-turkey", the logical opposite of quitting cold-turkey, usually to remind people of what a stupid, nonsensical expression "quit cold-turkey" is.

I hate to disappoint you, but 'slippy' is a real word. Commonly used in rally racing.

I do when I need to but then later I forget the made-up word that I invented before.

I've invented words since I was a toddler. Some people find it very funny, others are puzzled, others feel it's weird. It happens naturally, I just need a word that doesn't exist so I extrapolate and that's it. I also describe body language in ways nobody seems to see it except me.

You may want to do a wikipedia search on Rich Hall...