Max: Writing In Your Own Words, Literally
Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable.
What do all these words have in common? Someone, somewhere, is using them with a disclaimer like "I know it's not a real word..."
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What do all these words have in common? Someone, somewhere, is using them with a disclaimer like "I know it's not a real word..."
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posted by Max Dobberstein at 8/27/2008 01:45:00 PM
2 Comments:
I couldn't agree more. English is a living language. Living things change and grow. If you want a "proper" language, go speak Latin or some other "dead" language. Even Latin gets livened up now and then.
Any time someone uses the term "proper English", I roll my eyes and ask them if they want to go get a gyro or a burrito - we English speakers usually start corrupting our own language by stealing other culture's food words.
And as for inventing words, when someone uses a newly minted word and asks me "is that even a word?" I always say: "It's a word now!"
I also find neologisms to be splendiferous.
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