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A new book looks at hip neologisms that the author claims will never make the dictionary (my favorite, here, is yakass, referring to those folks who are forever strolling around with a cell-phone glued to their ear  ) : www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5256942
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Words for visting the fridge over and over from the link:
cold comfort, refrigerator magnetism, smorgasboredom, freonnui, stirvation, procrastifrigeration, bored chilly, expiration dating, Frigistaire, sub-zero interest, fridgety
... clearly these same people also have a strong need to label their repetitive behaviour. Is there a word for the incessant creation of countless neologisms to describe something? Can I have 400 suggestions, please!:-) I do like 'expiration dating' though.
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I don't think neologism is really the word to describe such witty wordplay as "pandephonium" (the confusion that results when a cell phone rings and nobody knows whose it is) and "smorgasboredom." To use these words in everyday conversation would be to wear out a joke.
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Is there a word for the incessant creation of countless neologisms to describe something? Can I have 400 suggestions, please!:-) I do like 'expiration dating' though.
neologuising...?
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How about taking the German approach: Makingupnewwordsforthingsthatotherwisewouldn'thavewordstodescribethemism?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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neologorrhea would be shorter
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Quote:
neologorrhea would be shorter
Yes, but concatenation of the words is so ... oh, I dunno, cathartic, in a way!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Think they can be called portmanteau, blend, infixes, and SNIGLETS
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