Monday, 19 September 2005

Neologisms (ENGL*3120)

Here are some of the words that I have heard in the past week that are not officially parts of the English language. Shakespeare created 7 000 new words within his 38 plays and so I would like to see how many new words I will come across in all my daily goings-about in a small effort to knock Shakespeare off one of his pedestals.

19/09:
(1) "boke" - past tense of "bike"
(2) "servitudey" - capable or inclined toward service
(3) "fuzzied" - [ref.: "cute and fuzzied"] to be made pleasant in a very soft or childish way
(4) "environarc" - one who keeps peers under tight reign and surveillance on environmental issues
(5)"tonicizing" - turning a chord (or note) into the tonic or tonic key; essentially modulation
18/09:
(6)"twack" - variant of "whack" (i.e. "You can twack her across the face.")
(7)"volumous" - variant of "voluminous"
(8)"exampled" - variant of "exemplified", replacing "made an example of"*
(9)"jokeage" - act of joking
17/09:
(10)"irrelated" - variant of "unrelated"
(11)"sensicality" - the instance of being sensible (sensibleness)
16/09:
(12)"incontainable" - unable to be contained

Yikes! This will be fun!

*OK, I just discovered that, according to dictionary.com, "exampled" is in fact a word but, the author they reference for context is good ol' Shakespeare, thus I am hesistant to assent to the validity claimed here.


20/09:
Apparently, my professor for this course (ENGL*3120) can get away with using words like "funnily" and "fetishized." This does not make me happy. "Militarized" and "pre-exist" also work but alas: "inter-affiliated" does NOT count as a real word.
(11)"viberacious" - possessing an extremely good vibe
(12)"karaokeing" - participating in karaoke
(13)"motivationer" - one who motivates; variant of "motivater"
22/09:
(14)"smush-proof" - incapable of being squashed ("smush" incidentally, is not a word either, despite its widespread use)
30/09:
(15)"appleness" - the quality of being apple-like S
15/10:
(15)"deadjust" - to become unadjusted S
22/10:
(16) "inter-cross" - overlapping; sharing across borders, divisions, etc. S

1 comment:

Jesskah said...

Credits to date:
[Key:
S= student
P = professor
A = adult
C = child]

1 Rebecca Napier -S
2 Jenn Stewart -S
3 Ann Wilson -P
4 Yours truly -S
5 -S
6 Sara Whitfield -S
7 Sara Whitfield
8 Sara Whitfield
9 [Sara Whitfield]
10 -A
11 Jenn Stewart -S
12 Jenn Stewart
13 Mathieu Sainson-Hart -S
14 -C