Rewriting the English Language: Made Up Words
 

I totally didn't get this idea from Serious Business. Really, don't go there and look >_>

*ahem*

Some of us have made up words from time to time either for amusement or just out of accident. My mom created the word Nerdidity to describe one's level of nerd, while I came up with a very mild form of almost-pain: Nain.

What are some of yours? I'd be interested to hear from Ava Lily since I hear she does this a lot.

My mom pronounces 'Liked' as 'Like-tid'. English is her second language, mind all of us, but I think it's funny.

I'm a semantic nerd, so I don't have any inventions of my own. I do add 'ness' to words, sometimes. It's nothing major. 'Backness' 'Dudeness'
If I every catch myself. I'll let you know.

Smap! instead of Snap!
Fie! instead of Pie!
Schmoo for various purposes.

One letter swaps are always easiest.

Other then bajillion and its many forms nothing really interesting to report for english words.

Smap = meh.
Fie! = Shakespearean.
Schmoo = alright.

I like the idea of this thread.

I thought this thread looked familiar. =p

"Funtastic" and "chillaxin" come to mind. I'm not sure how long they've been around, but I don't use them.

I created a word a long time ago. Malarney. I generally use it to mean blahness (another made-up word) or nothing. Of course, some might confuse it with the word malarkey, which was never my intent.

I get seriously annoyed everytime one of my brothers (they both do it!) use the word 'dranken' when they mean 'drunk', as in the past participle of drink.

I used 'hilaried' a lot. I kinda of a system for referring to cool things:

nice-->cool-->sweet-->fantastic-->hilarious-->HILARIED

I've heard one of my friend use the phrase: "THAT'S FREAKIN' CHEERIOS!!".

When I was little, I made up the word "stummy." It's a combination of "stomach" and "tummy" that I found appealing.

I'm mildly well known for making up words? interesting.

let's see here...

fagbucket - my personal favourite. essential meaning: a person whose faggotry is so gargantuas, they are literally a container for it.
rudeling - think weakling, but rude.
skankwad - relative of hobag, slutball, and various other forms of whoreness.
d00b - typo turned classic. meant to say d00d, ended up with d00b. somehow. it stuck.
jerkeye - another typo turned classic. meant to say "what a jerk, eh?" and came out with "what a jerkeye." I don't know how, it just happened. there was nothing I could do.

can't think of many others at this point in time. ask encephalon, he was at some point compiling a list of "avaisms".

I enjoy creating new words by adding the suffix -ery. It gives the resultant word an old-timey feel. Ready? Let's try it!

Is someone an asshat? Then they are clearly guilty of asshattery.

Someone overly concerned with the cost of certain goods? Tell them to knock off that pricetaggery (props to Mr. Burns for this one).

I frequently accuse people of comitting counts of douchebaggery.

I found myself using fleur in place of bleh these days. Dunno why. It's the french word for Flower. Just weird.
I also came up with your Aim name being a Naim, works in my circles.
My sister and I came up with a word to define when someone goes back on their word in a consistent and annoying pattern: Sckincher. My wife can be a no good sckinching sckincher!

I've known some online friends to actually say web abbreviations as they appear, like saying 'lol' like "L-O-L" instead of just laughing, similarly with 'wtf' or 'omfg'. I hate to tell them that it sounds pretty retarded, though.



Jeff Foxworthy has a few funny ones as well.

Don't go into a GFF Teamspeak meet then.

Also, my camp couselor made up the word "Lelp" because he was a hueg, lazy guy who neither chased after a ball, or felt like using all the air it would take to say a couple extra syllables. It's just a combination of "little" and "help". Yeah.

I don't really come up with unique words as such, although when I'm doing particularly badly in Worms Armageddon I tend to coin random insults from equally random words. Recent examples include "cockmonger", "mingebuff", "twatslap" and "bumbadger".

Gorgasm. When something is orgasmic yet extremely awesome, it's gorgasmic!

When cleansing my docs folder, I came upon an ancient reference to coining insulting words in a post from an old game preview site. Read, travellers, and be enlightened.

Fargo: Well, they've gone and dropped the news! Blizzard Entertinment, creators of such gaming triumphs as Diablo, StarCraft, and WarCraft, have announced their next game: World of WarCraft. It's a massive multiplayer RPG set in the WarCraft universe. I, for one, am excited to see where they can take the franchise. The world is rich, the races diverse, and the ground is ripe for awesome RPG goodness. However, others have expressed disappointment that StarCraft II is still nowhere in sight. shaithis, how do you feel about the announcement?

shaithis: [shaithis growls a gutteral growl. Eyes flashing, he hefts his monitor off of his desk. Power cords pull taught and finally snap with electic blue bursts of sparks. He hefts his monitor up high over his head, and finally brings it down to the earth with a crashing roar. Glass shatters; electronic components clatter across the ground. Lit from a fury within, shaithis lifts his booted foot high to bring it smashing onto the helpless piece of hardware, crushing and maiming and destroying. Again and again. No words escape from his mouth, save for anguished, indistinguishable screams.]

Fargo: As we all know, shaithis was a tremendous fan of the StarCraft series. In fact, would it be safe to say that -- other than when you built a WarCraft II map consisting of nothing but thousands of sheep for the two sides to obliterate into moist red splatters -- you have no interest in WarCraft whatsoever?

shaithis: [Picks up his CPU by its network cable and swings it over his head until it snaps free, crashing against the wall with horrifying finality.]

Fargo: But let's get down to brass tacks, right? Massively Multiplayer RPGs are awesome new products that only a large base of Internet players could support. I mean, unless you count the text-only games from back in the day, large MMORPGs like this just weren't possible a few years ago. Isn't it exciting that such a respected, talented developer will be spending the next few years making one?

shaithis: [Swings his office chair over his head, smashing it with unwavering force into the remnants of his CPU. The plastic casing cracks and gives in; PC innards scatter everywhere. Livid with rage, the assault continues, unrelenting. The howling screams echoing from shaithis's lips are now discernable as a string of slurred expletives, almost exclusively made up for the occasion. Frequently the word "ass" is combined with an everyday item to make a single semi-offensive word such as "assplatter."]

Fargo: Anyways, despite what you may think, I'm thrilled that someone with a sense of polish, design, and storytelling will be tackling the RPG genre. Less waiting, less camping, less hack-and-slashing, and more solid gameplay--

shaithis: [Suddenly freezing, with his battered and crooked chair still poised above his head.] Wait -- hang on -- could I roleplay the Suicide Dwarves?

Fargo: Hmmm ... I'm going to guess that, being an RPG, and focusing as it probably does on persistent characters, that ... no, no, chances are you won't be able to roleplay a character who's sole attack is to rush the enemy and blow himself to smithereens. [Fargo dives under his desk for safety]

shaithis: [shaithis turns reddish-purple with fury and heaves the remnants of his chair through a plate glass window. He returns moments later with a steamroller, hurling bottles of kerosine and screaming obscenities vaguely offensive to nearly every world religion. He is still calling for a sledgehammer and salad tongs when SWAT arrives.]

I love using the terms "Sweetalistic" or "Fantabular" or "Amazingtacular". I think I got some of them from a tv show, but I don't know which one. I also use to always add "amabob" to the end of everything, like "Shitamabob!" or "Frickamabob!".

I also like the term "McJewamaphone!" which really doesn't mean anything, I like adding the "mc" prefix to anything though, no idea why, I should work for the McDonalds Marketing Board or something, because they seem to be able to add "mc" to anything.

I find my self using lots of spoonerisms as well, like "hucking forse!" or "shiece of pit!", things like that...

I've discovered that instead of making new words, it's a lot more fun to creat new definitions to ones that already exist. For example, as I once stated in my journal, a lollygag could be a comedy skit involving lollipops.

Retardiculous. Hey, that is fun.
I've always liked calling people names like Fat Sajak (from King of Queens), Speedy Macwonderlegs, and what-not.

Deceptive

+

Mischievous

=

Decievous

I constantly find myself "making up" words, but they're generally pretty generic.

I've been using "idjit" instead of idiot a lot lately. I also always say "alo!" (or boo) instead of "hello." I think that's already a Spanish word for hello, but I think I pronounce it differently. "Boopbaloop" is also pretty big with me. I'm not sure it has an English equivalent. :(

I made up "fneh" as an alternative to "meh" several years ago. It used to piss off someone I once knew, but there's no need for it anymore.

Oh, me and my friends came up with this while ballin' tonight.

Bukake - An arrogant ghost

Look for it in the children's section of your local bookstore!

Whoa, this subject was on NPR today, but I was too busy paying attention to the iced roads. I did catch a bunch of corny words like, "What do you call it when you have to sneeze but cant? A Fauxneeze!"

I remember that there's a book out there too... just google fugitive words, since I can't recall title nor author.

I liked Stephen Colbert's word 'truthiness'

I once used the term 'Spammit' in relation to a thread that was full of spam and I had requested some art from the thread's creator like a week before. So it was a swear of sorts (Spam + Dammit = Spammit!)

Where is ava lilly when you need a list of made up words? I swear, one could make a dictionary out of the words she makes up. <3

The only word I've ever made up was "de-peluching". It's the act of removing cat hair from your cloting. >__>

What?... STOP LAUGHING YOU FUCKS!

One of my words is "conversate" or "conversating."

However the sad part is, I thought it was a real word until like last night when I got corrected, then looked it up, and realized it wasn't a real word. Cool. It sounds real.

Another phrase of mine is "what are the goingons", using a bastardization of the word "goings-on".

I also use "bavenge" or "bavenging" instead of "avenge" or "avenging" sometimes, but usually when I think it'll make my husband chuckle because he think's I'm being silly.

There's no altered meaning, it just sounds different.

The above post reminded me of They Might be Giants' song Prevenge. Premeditated revenge? Who knows. Great word though.

Now granted, as dumb as they sound to me, if I were to choose I'd rather that they said those than what they abbreviate, but that's just me.

I used to say "chicken mcnasty" for all the things i found...well, disgusting.

Other words I thought were neologisms but weren't: skullduggery (LOVE this word!) and boondoggle (look it up...it's an awesome word 'cause it describes a lot of what I'm sure everyone does...and dang! I can't take credit for it...waahhh!!)

I frequently say "neef" for "no".

I make up my own swear words: shnargits! shikes! clankers!

I'm sure other people have heard of "ginormous" (gigantic + enormous)...don't use it that often though.

I'm a fan of "punnage." I made that up to describe those who like to tell puns a lot.

I've combined some of my random mumblings into words, but I'll be damned if I can think of anything.

I think the words I make up the most are generally curses and violent utterings.

"HOLY HELL SHITMONKEYS, THAT'S ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY CRAPTACULAR!!!"

Basically just drawing out whatever I'm saying, extending it with whatever words fall into place. It can be amusing when I am in a weird mood.

That's the best GFFers can do? Two pages of made up English?
Sheeshors!

Arachnophilia - The act or urge to engage in sexual activity from any arachnid.

Furtection - Any device or product used to garuntee "safe" sex between one or more Furries.

Actual words? I dunno. But in my college's anime club, we made up a few terms.

For a while we had this term "crotch magnet"... There were one or two people, who would somehow get hit in the crotch whenever somebody randomly tossed an object.

Me and my friends have used a few portmanteaus like crimescapades(crime escapades) and detiquette (door etiquette).

With this other person I use the word 'stak' for goodnight strangely enough. I think it originated with a typo.

Well.......intresting.

My vocabulary isn't all that great so i'll just raed what ya have wrote.

Blargenheegen (Pronounced Blarg-ehn-hee-gehn; with hard G sounds) = An expression of suprise similiar to ZOMG!.

I turn typos into words. One time someone said "toughing" on accident (I think they were trying to say touching) and I defined it as "leaning against a wall and combing back your hair, preferably with a switch blade comb, so everyone knows you are in fact a hardass." I'm also partial to "shoeburyness," which is a word for that uncomfortable feeling you get when you sit on a chair and feel someone else's butt-warmth. I don't think I made this one up, though.

Critch: the exact point in time when whining turns to bitching, as in "You passed the critch, you maggot-pie".

The one memorable word I made up was eronic. It's sexual irony, like if you sleep with a hot chick only to find she's your sister. Oedipus is an example of eronic tragedy.

I vote this one to be the best so far!

Anyone seen the Strongbad Emails? Shame if you haven't. In one of them, he checks his imagination by trying to think of the "best thing ever". It goes like this: "Best thing ever: Beef......Stew. Yup, it's broke alright." My girlfriend Sam and our friends and I have officially adopted "Beef Stew" as a description for anything that is potentially the "best thing ever", or at least very awesome.

Also, you know what frotage is? Look it up. Anyway, Sam and I have created an alternate word: Baggit. I'm not even going to try and explain how it came about.

Oh, and one I heard in a flaming war that I treasure to this day. "Fuck you joob!" Joob will always be special to me.

How could I forget my baby! Fook, like the scottish way of saying fuck. I was about 15 when I came up with it, so it was a way to drop the F-bomb without getting in trouble. Shite too.