What are some words we need to make up?
I can think of a few. Like when a man and woman work together and are buddies but aren’t romantic. Is there a word for that? There should be. Friends doesn’t cut it.
What are yours?
I can think of a few. Like when a man and woman work together and are buddies but aren’t romantic. Is there a word for that? There should be. Friends doesn’t cut it.
What are yours?
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I say … Manwodies! LOL hehehe …
Just as my kids would say when things got rough and bad, they created their own words such as “It is so Punk Metal, Mommy! So, so bad.” I was like ???? LOL
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Ha!
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LOL
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A friend of mine invented the work ‘dispickered’ – for when he felt both disappointed and despicable.
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Awesome.
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i love made up words – one of the ones i’ve made up for my family is a product name. “Crapple.” our name for those caramel apple wraps -))
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Hmm. Marketing department probably said no.
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Nurblesprogs …. this is the word I use to describe ideas which occur to me while I’m writing. I always wear a Panama hat when working as this seems to stop them escaping before I’ve finished with them.
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Damn. Does that work?
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Yes. Most hats work quite well in this respect. Well, apart from the annoying cork dangling hats favoured by some Australians.
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Got it. Thanks.
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The corks keep the flies away!
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Used blondshell in my first book to describe a gorgeous blonde bombshell! And often use fastamagoric – to say something super fantastic. Both words don’t sound that original and may have been used before, but I haven’t seen them around in any dictionaries or books anyway. I love making up words but don’t always use them for fear of people thinking I can’t spell š
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Blondshell! Love that one!
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Thanks š
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A lot of slang that is common vernacular should be I think. Like high schoolers or smush, confuzzled may be a stretch but I know I make up too many outlandish words. haha
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I like confuzzled. Sounds like a Dr Seuss word.
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Haha it does doesn’t it
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Me make up words. Lol.
I came up with adjacent conversation to explain how my sister is always talking about me, to my mother, when I’m sitting right there.
i.e. … I think anybody over thirty-five looks stupid in a mini skirt, and who would want to dye their hair red… Meanwhile I’m sitting on the other side of her in a mini skirt, a box of red dye in my hand. Adjacent fucking conversation. Hmmm. Does this make me sound angry?
You caught me using umbrellaed tables. You commented I don’t think that’s a word. (Why I remember this is beyond me). I think I replied, it is if I say so.
And I used the word scuttled on the hook…someone replied…that thesaurus isn’t doing you any favours. It was pretty funny.
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That IS funny.
“The thesaurus isn’t always your friend.” Good point.
Now that I think about it, I’ve made up some words, too, but they were used sarcastically – imagine that.
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Your not a funny man so I can’t picture it….. Lol. I’m teasing in case you have no sense of humour…that’s teasing again, btw.
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I’m really just misunderstood
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I always liked bromance. That sudden friendship that pops up between two men that seems almost like they’re in love but it isn’t.
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Bromance is cool, if it’s not your husband evolved in one:(
Ha.
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Or that
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I meant involved. But evolved sort of fits too.
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You crack me up.
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Yep. Occasionally the folks who make up words get it right. They gave us Benifer but they gave us bromance. Their batting average is very low but they do get a home run on occasion.
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LOL
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My poet friend had a brilliant way with inventing words, we called them gurkisms.
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Gurkisms sounds like chronic indigestion. Or another Dr Seuss character. The Gurk.
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I thought there was a word for that? Platonic? But made up words are so much more fun. š
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Platonic doesn’t quite cut it. Sounds too close to platypus.
I’m thinking girl work buddy, so gwobby? See? It needs a word.
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Okay, okay, you’re right! But not gwobby, lol. š
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No. Not gwobby.
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Sure, if you don’t want to use platonic since that’s for platypuses. Perhaps they have a nomantic relationship, meaning no romance with that man, while the man has a nowomantic relationship with that woman. They’re just friends–nomance and nowomance (I know, sounds like that cartoon character who can’t say his r’s; can’t remember his name, I’m blanking out).
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Nomance is good! That might be it!!
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It’s all called forplay.
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My biggest offense is changing the word from a noun to a verb or an adverb to an adjective or something along those lines. When people look at me funny, I just look back and say, “Writer’s rule.” Now, yes, I am stating that writers have a rule implemented by the Muse’s that be allowing us to create words to fit in however we need them (ok, that might not be a thing, but don’t tell anyone), but at the same time I am quietly reminding them that writers do in fact… rule! (because we are such an odd bunch)
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I like that.
We call it poetic license or literary license, so the abbreviated version of that is writers rule. Not bad.
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Yeah, I remember that from years ago. I think something just got shortened in my head and it became the ‘quip’ that it is today. /shrug Writers, right?
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I guess I feel silly coming up with my own words – presumptuous. Like who am I to create a word? Who do I think I am? William Shakespeare? haha.
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Can’t make up my mind : decisional paralysis.
Grandchildren on the forebears: grandcestors
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Nice!
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