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I may have coined a word or two, probably inadvertently, but I notice that children often use words that adults would not think of--I used to tell my kids(with some emotion) that there was no such word as "tump"--apparently meaning "turn over and dump out". They used the word anyway and were delighted to find it in a novel-I think it was "On the Beach". More kidspeak (besides blanky, wa-wa, etc.)?
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Thanks, tsuwm and jheem--Not only were my offspring, when
in grade school, right about "tump" and I was wrong,
but they were more southern than their south Florida native mama!
A few years later they were using a politically incorrect adjective--reflicted. I understood that one but don't think it earned any points in English class.
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I loved hearing this evidence that their little brains are trying to work things out. I haven't noticed they have created any neologisms recently, but they're both over ten now. A few years back, though, it seemed they were always contriving words to describe unfamiliar situations.
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Sadly, Jackie, a combination of "retarded" and "afflicted".
Used scathingly of friends and family who were neither.
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In reply to:
reflicted...??
ditto
Whazzit mean?
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Gription = Friction created by hand.
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Gription = Friction created by hand.
Presumably the hand of an adolescent male?
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