Coinage (Invent some new words or phrases)

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In summary: Maybe that's why I don't remember hearing about it before.Rosalinda is not a word. :tongue2: In summary, Russ Watters' word salad and Arildno's gurulity and gurulation have me wondering what other jewels PFers can crank out.
  • #36
honestrosewater said:
Well, I found out that he had a wife but not much else: George Norman Garmonsway (1898-1967), Professor of English Langauge in the University of London. I'm not giving up on this yet... irretardless.
:smile:
Is the British registration office for births/marriages/deaths online yet?
 
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  • #38
HRW, are you the one who coined zoquoing around here?

zoquo (zo-kwo) v. to add irrelevant characters or words to the end of a post in PF to meet the ten character minimum.
 
  • #39
honestrosewater said:
Well, I found out that he had a wife but not much else: George Norman Garmonsway (1898-1967), Professor of English Langauge in the University of London. I'm not giving up on this yet... irretardless.
Have a blast, dear:
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/partners/gro.htm
 
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  • #40
And we mustn't forget crackpottery, either..
 
  • #42
Moonbear said:
HRW, are you the one who coined zoquoing around here?

zoquo (zo-kwo) v. to add irrelevant characters or words to the end of a post in PF to meet the ten character minimum.
Not I....
 
  • #44
Hey, I think this is him. He would have been about 18: http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=910429&CATLN=6&Highlight=,GARMONSWAY&FullDetails=True

doesn't help, but at least it's something...
 
  • #45
honestrosewater said:
Hey, I think this is him. He would have been about 18: http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=910429&CATLN=6&Highlight=,GARMONSWAY&FullDetails=True

doesn't help, but at least it's something...
Not a whole lot of personal info, there; but we're closing in on George Norman and his paramour..

QUESTION:
He would have WOOED Rosalinda, right?
(Such a nice word; why did you stop using it?)
 
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  • #46
Obstropolous, conflabberation , are two i use.
 
  • #47
What the eky thump??:confused:

Oh, our dear shy wollie ram is back! :smile:
 
  • #48
Rambunktity is another :smile:
 
  • #49
arildno said:
Not a whole lot of personal info, there; but we're closing in on George Norman and his paramour..

QUESTION:
He would have WOOED Rosalinda, right?
(Such a nice word; why did you stop using it?)
That site is a conflabberation! I haven't been able to find an online search for marriages. I did find something else of his though:
http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P10987
 
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  • #50
She's eluding us! :cry:
Or, has she just eloped?
 
  • #51
moonbearesque- a
1.a term usuallt meaning annoying or having a great desire to kill franzbear. or having a great avatar. you prick! you're so moonbearesque
2.relating to the PF username moonbear. who was very annoying in her quest to kill franzbear.
 
  • #52
Is Perspicacity, a proper word yet?
 
  • #53
* runs and hides *
 
  • #54
wolram said:
Is Perspicacity, a proper word yet?
George Norman says so.
 
  • #55
And, crumpatuous? Now there goes a crumpatuous lady. a cracker.
 
  • #56
honestrosewater said:
russ watters' word salad (a meaningless string of words; worse than nonsense).
I can't claim the invention of that one. I've seen it many times in forums. I do, however, make up words all the time. I get that from my sister, who can verb-ize any word (turn any noun into a verb).

Anyway, some of my favorite invented words are ones I invent in the politics forum. Ie, "neohippieism".

edit: Related word - hippify: applied to a person, to grow long dredlocks, stop showering, and start smoking pot. Applied to an object - to paint it tie dyed, stop maintining it, and cover it with bumper stickers (whether its a car or not).
 
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Gokul43201 said:
dopeler effect - the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Oh yeah - as an engineer, I have "coefficients" and "effects" for everything. Ie:

crackpot coefficient: fraction of posters in a thread who are crackpots.

"I'm outta here - the crackpot coefficient is just too high for meaningful conversation."
 
  • #58
Maybe Rosalinda was his favorite childhood sled...
 
  • #59
honestrosewater said:
Maybe Rosalinda was his favorite childhood sled...
Citizen Garmonsway on a sled??
I don't think so..
 
  • #60
My best guess so far is http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:SCT5-s1-EhkJ:www.sal.org.uk/fellows/fellowsarea/archive/obituaries/show.php%3Fid%3D74 . I'm taking a break.
 
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  • #61
honestrosewater said:
My best guess so far is http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:SCT5-s1-EhkJ:www.sal.org.uk/fellows/fellowsarea/archive/obituaries/show.php%3Fid%3D74 . I'm taking a break.
Good work!
 
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  • #62
arildno said:
Good work!
What does that mean?! Do you know who it is? This is driving me crazy. :cry:
 
  • #63
honestrosewater said:
What does that mean?! Do you know who it is? This is driving me crazy. :cry:
I was only trying to be nice.
After all that hard work, you deserved some sort of recognition.
 
  • #64
arildno said:
I was only trying to be nice.
After all that hard work, you deserved some sort of recognition.
Woo. :wink:


I just found out he taught at King's College. :biggrin:
 
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Words which I may have helped to proliferate:

'Swoonworthy' - something which is so woo that it's worthy of swoons
'Transvestomosexual' - those teenage depressed kids who want to be different, but are in fact just the same as everyone else
'Bumsexual' - Something which is not very good
 
  • #66
brewnog said:
'Bumsexual' - Something which is not very good
Do you really think this will displace excellent terms like ass bandit or butt pirate?
 
  • #67
arildno said:
Do you really think this will displace excellent terms like ass bandit or butt pirate?

Of course not. It should only stand by them to make them better!

'Ass-hat' is another good one.
 
  • #68
honestrosewater said:
russ watters' word salad (a meaningless string of words; worse than nonsense) and arildno's gurulity and gurulation have me wondering what other jewels PFers can crank out. Share your inventions.

I think I have you all beat. I've invented an entire language to use in a story I'm working on. Your fictional name would be:

Eamara Gioto Kuskadurotkul

The translation isn't exact, though. There is no word for 'rose,' so the last word literally means "flower water."
 
  • #69
loseyourname said:
I think I have you all beat. I've invented an entire language to use in a story I'm working on. Your fictional name would be:

Eamara Gioto Kuskadurotkul

The translation isn't exact, though. There is no word for 'rose,' so the last word literally means "flower water."
Does it beat Quenya..:wink:
 
  • #70
Here's a word I just made up:
teccident (tek-sih-dent) n. an accident that results from someone distracted by technology.

For an example of a teccident waiting to happen, see this thread.
 

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