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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA 
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Your question: In writing, do you feel that sometimes there isn't a word that you feel can describe what you're writing about?? If so, do you make up your own words?? And, if you do that. . . what are they? And why did you make them up? Your answers. . . : -------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Nan makes them up.....I'm SURE of it... |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
I make up words if there's a word that doesn't normally use a certain prefix or suffix, but could. I'd give you an example but it rarely happens and it's hard to think of a decent example, but you all know what I'm talking about.  "The room filled with a great feeling of ungoodness." Like that, kind of? Anyone know what I'm saying? Concieted?? Impossible! That would be a fault! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
I am the qveen of invented vords...  KAll obscurity starts with a danger: |
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Packratmike Senior Member
since 2001-02-25
Posts 632California, USA |
Once in a while I make up words. In the following example, I made up "meadowverse" to describe a small bird's universe. I feel it worked great for the poem. spilling melodic messages throughout a chromatic meadowverse Mike |
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Ted Reynolds Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 331 |
Let's be specific in our terminology. If you're coming up with new action words, it's known as "inverbsion." Coining descriptive words is called "adjection." If you're creating names for things, it's "renouning". |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Hmm..Sometimes..I think..its either that or I underestimate my knowledge..perhaps a little of both. LOL! Hmm.. Lustacious? as an example? |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Shouldn't meadowverse theoretically have been meadow-verse though? |
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Packratmike Senior Member
since 2001-02-25
Posts 632California, USA |
Sven...then why wouldn't universe be uni-verse??? I was trying to show this small creature's limited perspective of its "universe". Here is the entire poem: she dances in the swaying trees with pirouettes and ballyhoos and coos and coos........ fearlessly flittering care-less-ly from leafy perch to leafy perch springtime joy warmed deep within her tiny throat erupts!......spilling melodic messages throughout a chromatic meadowverse from leafy perch to leafy perch care-less-ly fearlessly flittering with pirouettes and ballyhoos and coos and coos........ she dances in the swaying trees Mike [This message has been edited by Packratmike (edited 05-07-2001).] |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Ok, Mike, a meadowverse. But and ACCIDENTAL meadoverse? Does that presuppose an accidental universe? |
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Packratmike Senior Member
since 2001-02-25
Posts 632California, USA |
Interloper... I'm not sure that I have suggested that anything is "accidental" here. Possibly the word "care-less-ly" might read in that direction??? Maybe I should re-edit it to "care less-ly"....minus one hyphen....to reflect a carefree manner. (Think I'm getting a headache thinking about it.LOL) Mike |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Hey Mike...(it's Severn not Sven by the way... )Universe wouldn't be uni-verse as it is already an established word - yours is not. That was the point...within your context it works of course...I was merely speaking from a technical point of view. Yes Interloper - where did you get accidental from? Lol...I think care-less-ly is an interesting modification...why the hyphens out of interest? K (very much Severn heh) |
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Packratmike Senior Member
since 2001-02-25
Posts 632California, USA |
Severn...(slapping my head against the file cabinet!) Duh!!! You're right, it is Severn! Sorry! Now I understand what you're getting at with the "meadow-verse" and technically, you are probably correct. The hyphen also seems to call more attention to the word so I'm going to include it in my copy. (I'm not very good with "technical" so I guess you have to spell it out for me.*S*) "care-less-ly"...as I write my poems, I usually read them aloud for meter/word flow. I felt/hoped that the hyphens would briefly slow the meter just as a small bird might briefly stop to rest on a branch. I suppose I could have used *** or /// or... ... ... to break the word up, but the hyphen was the first thing that came to mind. Also, by breaking the word up as I did, I think it provided a double meaning. "Without caution" and "carefree". A fine line divides these two meanings but I think they both describe the appearance of a joyful bird caught up in her springtime joy. Thanks for pointing these things out to me.*S* Mike [This message has been edited by Packratmike (edited 05-08-2001).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
K, people are always getting us confused. . . why do you think that is???  Seriously though. . . I like the idea of invented words. . . but, then again, I'm strange that way. . . I like the idea of "Uni-verse" as being "one verse". . . with verse being a "place of being, somewhere where you exist". . . it's just the way that my mind works when I see something like this. . . Thanks Mike!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
hhmmmm.... Sven/Severn--- i guess if you need glasses or maybe if your screen resolution is set really high,, or if you just glance, or if... oops,, the ellipsis was the other thread... ps - I think even Mr Magoo would agree, the six letter one is much much prettier. In fact she is beautimos. heh There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. byron [This message has been edited by Jamie (edited 05-11-2001).] |
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