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#185900 - 07/18/09 01:06 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: Fieldgunner]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3757 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Originally Posted By: Fieldgunner SF is rich with opportunities to create new phrases and words that sound really cool. I use the word- Technoloog - imagined future tech that is nothing more than a single word/ phrase that sounds cool... eg 'flux capacitor' from Back to the Future or something like 'psi-chaon particle reverberator turbines'... stuff like that... 'loog' is corruption of logos. It'd be really nice if we posted such imaginary words/phrases with a short explanation. Not to spoil someone's fun ( I hate to do that) but we use technoloog as a common word. link
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#185901 - 07/18/09 01:06 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: zmjezhd]
Fieldgunner stranger Registered: 07/16/09 Posts: 10	"stereobatic semiosis"... lolz, very rich! try an antonym for that... ie when a word exists before the concept does...
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#185902 - 07/18/09 01:15 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: BranShea]
Fieldgunner stranger Registered: 07/16/09 Posts: 10	Re BranShea Looks German... what does it mean?
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#185903 - 07/18/09 01:59 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: Fieldgunner]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3757 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Technologist.
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#185904 - 07/18/09 02:01 PM Re: in navem stultorum [Re: Fieldgunner]
zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2471 Loc: R'lyeh	when a word exists before the concept does Nephelococcygial semiosis, or cloud-cuckoo-landish symbologenesis.
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#185910 - 07/18/09 03:24 PM Re: in navem stultorum [Re: zmjezhd]
Fieldgunner stranger Registered: 07/16/09 Posts: 10	Okay... I'll change mine to Pseuteclog Pseudo-Technological-Words
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#185912 - 07/18/09 05:06 PM Re: in regione ceacorum [Re: Fieldgunner]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 12530	There was always Asimov's psychohistory. A more recent addition would be cliology from Michael Flynn's works In the Country of the Blind[i] and [i]Eifelheim. Googling it makes an study and I'm not sure if Flynn coined it or if he co-opted an existing word (and discipline). To me psychohistory was more of an engineering discipline and cliology observational. Edited by Faldage (07/18/09 05:07 PM)
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#185914 - 07/18/09 10:31 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: tsuwm]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 10392 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	what do you make of the scifi channel changing their logo to SYFY? Surprisingly, I like it; it's a much better phonological replication than sci-fi...which I would never have equated with skiffy. Come to think of it, why wasn't sci-fi pronounced as sigh-fee or sigh-fih? Just the rhyme? Welcome aBoard, Fieldgunner. I'm guessing you're a U.S.'n?
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#185915 - 07/18/09 11:35 PM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 9577 Loc: this too shall pass	>Come to think of it, why wasn't sci-fi pronounced as sigh-fee or sigh-fih? well, I (for one) always pronounced it as sigh-figh; and I think that SyFy just obviousizes it for those who haven't been uplifted.
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#185916 - 07/19/09 12:21 AM Re: Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread. [Re: Jackie]
Fieldgunner stranger Registered: 07/16/09 Posts: 10	Originally Posted By: Jackie Welcome aBoard, Fieldgunner. I'm guessing you're a U.S.'n? thanks jackie... your guess is a bit off though.i'm from india.
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