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Cool words.

3/23/2006

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Posted by BJ
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I think we should formally recognize the ability of proposals to generate entirely new words. I suggest we recognize a new science and call it ‘Newordology’ – n, The science of creating and using words that previously did not exist. Often consists of corrupting a word, changing the spelling, misapplying a word, combining two or more words.​
​Examples:

‘Clumbersome’. adj. Combining clumsy and cumbersome. To be both clumsy and cumbersome.

‘Aforegoing’ – adj. Combining ‘fore mentioned’ and forego. Means to mention and then immediately dismiss.

I know Jon has seen a fair number of newly coined (not to be confused with minted) words. And I’ve sure many of you reading these entries have a few of your own….and I’d enjoy to hear them.
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Let’s try reading that more carefully… | The Proposal Guys
3/26/2016 05:52:02 am

[...] client’s ‘manufucaturing’ site. That almost feels like an example of BJ’s newordology, for those moments when things go wrong in the [...]

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