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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:05 pm Post subject: Made-up words |
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As writers, we have the freedom to play with and abuse our language. We invent phrases, find new uses for words, and even make up our own. Writers such as T. A. BArron and the writers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer are experts at this. Share ones you've made up here.
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Quicklier (short for more quickly)
squintify (Made this one up when I was reading a book that was too big and I thought they could make it easier to carry if they squinified the font and spacing, ie make it smaller) |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Ohhhh my friend Rachel would have a field day with this thread...
(no joke) |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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confusation-confusion
luverbaly-usually sarcastic, like "lovely" or "That's just great". Usually directed towards my mom. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| confuzzled - cross between confused and puzzled |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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YAY 
okay, first up i love these two:
noodle- new poodle
fried chicken- fricken
and now mine
banocolate- bananas and chocolate
snazzfest/y/erific/tastic/tabulous- basically, cool, but a funner word
snoozic- boring music
ah, i have so many, these are the semi-sane ones |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, I know confuzzled. One of my favourite abuses of the English language would be something said on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"I'm suffering from the afterness of a bad night of badness." Not going to explain it, though.
Here's one my friend made up: Saying "shiny" rather than "cool" |
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Fattish |
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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I got really bored one summer and made up a couple of words. Here's one:
Specitiful-Special
Well, a couple of weeks ago, my mom told me that she wanted me to stop calling everything gay instead of stupid so I made up Happy Wad instead of Gay Wad or I say Yag instead. LOL! |
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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let me think.
I have this
forgotiful-Forgetful.
I really don't make up words but I will now. |
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to add ness onto the end of words-
Hugeness
Coolness
Greatness
Gorgeousness
Other than that, I don't have much. |
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, adding "ness" to things is fun. I seriously once heard someone say "stay-in there-ed-ness" |
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Haha... I do that too. 'Cept I'm more likely to add "ish" or "ified" rather than "ness."
Stuff like:
awesomified
awesomeishness
horribleish
okayish
coolness
shneakified
But I also like:
blerb
blerbishness
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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coolness
sweetness
heh. |
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Ooh, my friend Vanessa made this one up:
Yayish!
As an adjective for something that you would say YAY! to...or something. Who knows? |
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