Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.
The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.
And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they're some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.
I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".
I take sounds and change them into words.
The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.
My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.
One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run two words together to make a third word.
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
'Puzzlejuice' will get your brain juices flowing as try to juggle both falling boxes and a growing list of letters to create words from. There are power ups to unlock and massive explosions that will shake your mobile device to its very core if you are quick enough with your fingers and your thoughts.
I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
