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Making Up Words
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.ok.ok.cox.net)
Date: August 23, 2003 05:54AM

Googling for "portmanteau words" and found this site at [www.jasperfforde.com]. Thought you and some of your posters might want to submit some made up words to www.pseudodictionary.com, a site for which I serve as the senior editor.


Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Dibs (---.glfd.adsl.virgin.net)
Date: August 23, 2003 10:37AM

I don't know if it's already been done but I came up with "Ambisinistrous" for being useless with both hands.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 23, 2003 11:50AM

Yes, I've heard that one used before...

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: August 23, 2003 11:54AM

It has. Er, I heard it yesterday, but i can't remember where. Probably one of the crap things I was watching on telly. It's good, though...

Either that or I dreamt it.

I just googled it, and it's actually in a medical dictionary! Oh, well.

I also found this, which I think I like:

A Response to Some Objucations

A verbal tikolobomassophile,
I watched the stellar coruscation while
My lucubration was amphigory
And, noctivagant through my dictionary,
Somnambulistic, oneiric, I roved:
Composed at length, a pierian ode.
This lexical palaestra then I sought.
Though my altiloquence was merely sport,
I feared anfractuosity would run
More torpidly in its noetic sun.
But while my mixolydian caprice,
Paronomastic maggot, a showpiece
Sesquipedalian and orotund,
Was no more than a game, an iracund
Perplexity of critics took the bait
Which wriggled on the line, vermiculate.
And now, silurid chiromachs, they fret
In their batrachomyomachic pet.
The urtication of exanimate
Bucephalus they urge, and perpertrate
Psittaceous repetition, tardigrade
Synchesis. Minds sequacious and afraid
Compose their platitudes and stridulate
Exiguous eclosions, ennarate
Their exoteric evanescent verse
Which solecisms maculate, and worse.
Acarpous anorectic fremitus:
The writings of the ambisinistrous.
Where is the chrysostomatic paean
Which pierces luculent empyrian
With fulgent, reboant amphiclexis
To reach its plangent anagnoresis:
A temarious clinquant estellation?
The sisyphean mussitation,
Audaculous in mediocrity
Is choking with its swirling paucity
The aureate syllables, apical
In canorous, anabatic lines which call
And fade.
My readers can expect from me
No oleaginous apology
Or tergiversate specious lustration
So wake up, nictitator, I have done.

There's a translation here



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Do something pretty while you can...

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 23, 2003 12:10PM

Now that has class!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 23, 2003 12:20PM

Dante _
That was a lovely poem! Thanks for posting it (& its translation). I knew the meanings for some of the uncommon words used, but that was nowhere near all _ or even half _ of them and there are several of the "new" ones which I now plan to use somewhere in my own attempts at writing...

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Dibs (---.glfd.adsl.virgin.net)
Date: August 23, 2003 12:23PM

I try to be smart and look what happens.

Great poem.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Guy (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 23, 2003 12:43PM

Fantastic poem.

Rather scarily, I knew (or could work out) what all the words meant except tikolobomassophile, amphigory and a couple of others. The joys of a classical education!

It didn't manage to include my favourite obscure word: hodmandod (it's a kind of small brown and yellow snail.)



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: splat21 (213.38.32.---)
Date: August 23, 2003 12:46PM

Great site too! The man enjoys himself...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 23, 2003 07:29PM

Favourite word invented this week was actually by my brother.

Posprobably.

It's a sort of cross between possibly and probably, for when you're not really sure if something will happen or not.

Lots of fun to say too, especially if you've had a few.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 24, 2003 12:53AM

Some friends named one of their cats 'Fother', because when she was a kitten, she caused a lot of fuss and bother.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: August 24, 2003 03:17PM

I think it's a fantastic poem too, though I was disappointed how few words I knew! I might have to try and learn a new word every day again for a while.

And my new ambition is to use tikolobomassophile in a non-phorum conversation. And also to remember it without having to go back up the thread and check.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 24, 2003 09:45PM

What's that car that's supposed to be 'sturdy' and 'nimble', hence 'stimble' ?

Personally I thought it was 'nimble' and 'sturdy'.


Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 25, 2003 01:31AM

Dave: it's the Nissan Micra

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 25, 2003 07:52AM

Couldn't you also call it 'nurdy'?



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Re: Making Up Words
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 25, 2003 11:55AM

I remember once reading that a car had been described by the salesman as "a robust model of total reliability", and it was observed that this statement had been completely accurate apart from the syllables "ro" and "re".



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah



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