I have, twice that I can remember.
- Nukamajig - microwave. I still use it from time to time because it’s too stupid not to.
- Miscombobulate - mixup and confuse. Just now, between the time it was and when the appartment building’s laundry room was closed for the night.
My family calls the TV remote a “gonk” because apparently my grandpa called it that once back when they were still a pretty new thing, and it stuck. My mom and her siblings passed it on to their own kids, and now there’s just a small packet of people in Minnesota who call TV remotes gonks, much to the confusion of our peers.
This is exactly how hyper specific regional dialects get those extra weird words that’re like how TF did this small town all start saying this word
That’s silly. Everyone knows they are called motes.
Well I don’t see why it can’t be.
legiterally
That is one of the betterific ones I’ve seen.
Narp
Yarp
Narf!
The cloth you put on your pillow to catch nap drool.
I have long covid, I’m in the menopause, and I deal with three separate languages each day.
Anyway, gulls are sea pigeons. You’re welcome.
Sea pigeons works at least. Had a guy call an apple turnover an apple pasty. I mean, it’s the same shape so yeah it works
I thought that was just Britishese.
Ya it’s an apple pasty, eh?
And pigeons are flying rats.
And doves are just pigeon racists.
i have sat staring at the word I wrote: “uv” trying to figure out why it was wrong
uv course
I’ve had the same experience, except I wrote it as “ove” and it took me far longer than I’d like to admit to realize what I had done. There are a couple other words that I’ve typed a phonetic spelling without realizing it, but I can’t seem to remember the specific words at the moment.
only a matter of time before that’s a commonly accepted spelling, guv. I wouldn’t be surprised if future actors mistakenly pronounce the current spelling as “awf” in their period pieces.
Set reminds me of one of those pictures you see sometimes, where they’ll throw in a deliberate spelling or grammar mistake just to see if you caught it the first read through. Like “the the” or "the Statue ov Liberty.
I don’t intentionally make them up, it’s just what comes to me as my brain frantically tries to figure out the right word. Like “fish museum.”
that’s either the picture sushi menu or the aquarium and either way i’m down
They caught all the fish and put 'em in a fish museum
And charge the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'emLegit.
My partner says “pizza rind” for the crust edge that she won’t eat.
My friend had brain surgery for an aneurysm, and every so often she fumbles a word as a result. One day she wanted to say the word lumberjacks, but her brain came up with logfarmers instead.
I remember there was a reddit community about this for a while, but I can’t remember what it was.
My favorite that I’ve used on occasion during a brain fart is ‘food laundry’ when I can’t remember ‘dishes’
There’s a similar thing called “sniglets” (words for things that don’t have words).
I love it lol
Yes, since in my native language creating new words is a build-in feature (I’m finnish). You don’t know what’s that called? Forgot the word? A new thing that doesn’t even have a word for it? Just slap two or more together and it’s fine
Agglutinative/synthesizing language.
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The way this works is by combining roots/stems, adding derivational suffixes and using transparent compounds. In effect you can create words for novel ideas that feel instantly clear to all the speakers of the language because the building blocks follow a set of familiar patterns and rules.
Yep. There’s multiple layers to it as well, as you can make up compound words, and then you can do the “bending”, adding specific endings to make the word mean whatever. You don’t even really think about it, you just do it kinda naturally when needed.
For a random example today I used “ylöspäinkapuava”, “(someone/something) climbing upwards”. Ylös = up, päin = towards, ylöspäin = upwards, kavuta = to climb, kapuaa = someone/something climbs, kapuava = someone/something is climbing (adjective) -> ylöspäinkapuava. You could use “ylöskapuava” (up climbing) to make it simpler, but that leaves out some nuance and sounds more like just getting up after you fell down.
I have cryptolalia. So… squirtainly.
i must be misunderstanding cryptolalia. is that something a person has just with themselves or is that a shared language?
Omnitemporally, or put another way, circumclockularly. That’s how words innoventually enter the lexicon.
At least when they’re not being stolen wholesale, needfully or not. Looking at you, umami.
That’s why I only use words that I find rummaging through other peoples’ trash. I call it scavenglish.
That’s just the entire language.
oof ouch my clock. at least run some warm water for your hands first
Nukamajig is something id expect in fallout
In Big Mt.
Swedish is awesome with compound words, say that you forget the Swedish word for “computer”, “dator”, you could just use “informationshanteringsmaskin” instead!
I used three words to make one compound word, the words I used was:
“Information”, “hantering” and “maskin”
Informationhandlingmachine ?
Yeah!
