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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration 
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"Automagically," is a favorite of mine. I give full credit to Ms. Phyllis Martinez, who "created" that word for her four-year-old daughter. She is also responsible for a couple other "cute" ones, but this one has stuck in my mind. Don't worry, I'm not straying too far from the subject, (as I am wont to do.) This does have bearing on the discussion which will hopefully follow here. My query has to do with the validity of "creating," or "modifying" words, to suit the autors needs, wants, or a notion. Is it "ok," to do this, or is it something that is more likely to "irk" people? I realize that this isn't likely to be a common occurance, but personally have "adjusted" words before, to fit what I wanted. Do you think this is valid, or do you believe that words should be used as they're written down, that they're absolute? |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
Create away -- but make the definition obvious, willya? You can't look it up in the ol' lexicon, after all -- LOL Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made, Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange... --William Shakespeare, from The Tempest |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Well, hello - here is the word creator herself...  I LOVE creating words, well - to be accurate  - I tend to change them from verbs to nouns etc or add suffixes which wouldn't usually belong on them. I also LOOOVVVEEE creating compound words. One of my most unusual titles you may remember was 'Awakely sleeping'.Now I have two main points here - one to do with what I see as the inevitability of the evolution of language and the other which is concerned with the aestheticism of language. One: As I have stated somewhere in here before I truly believe that language evolves with us, and to be against change is to be against a fundamental part of human nature. Language is central in our cultural foundations - without language we actually wouldn't have cultures such as we have today (we'd be stuck as Homo Erectus forever!) and well, we are ever advancing - therefore it really is a given that our language will change. (Look at the periods of old and middle English...to now - what caused the evolution? Did people suddenly stand up and shout one day "I want one of those 'e's taken off 'mee'!" - I hardly think so...) Two: There are thousands, millions of poets out there. Aesthetically poets need to be visionary in order to succeed. To set themselves apart. Nevermind if it 'irks' people - I believe that is the irked one's loss! I have never attracted condemnation from my experimentalism with nouns turning into verbs or vv. So, yes, as you may well have guessed I am fully supportive of 'modifying' words...  K'Writing sharpens life; life enriches writing' Sylvia Plath |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Chris ! Chris ! I think I did it ! I made a new word thanks to Brad and Jim ! Bard - Bardess, or doesn't that count ? |
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