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The phrase "it doesn't smell the same" is part of our household lexicon, thanks to my autistic son, who uses the phrase to explain *why* he doesn't like a particular food. We aren't sure whether the issue is actually smell at all, but since he applies it sometimes to some fairly familiar foods, we don't think that it is meant to describe his adversions to things unfamiliar. The phrase might also relate to textures which he finds unpleasant.
Whatever - the phrase is in use now in our house to express an unwillingness to perform a task or try a new experience. If the usage catches on, in 50 years the etymolgists will be completely stymied trying to conjure how it developed. [eg]
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>If the usage catches on...
[blink]digression alert[/blink]
I often get questions along these lines, I have coined a wonderful word/phrase -- how do I get it into the dictionary?
ludicrosity aside, what is this fascination with getting into the dictionary? it's not like anyone will ever know that a word is really "yours".
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"ludicrosity"? Would that term make anastrophe anacross? 
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tsuwm, in a world were all we can expect is 15 minutes of fame, a dictionary, a book we (well everyone here!) all hold near and dear, is a more lasting tribute.
Look how we turn to the OED.. it is an authority! if any of us, could become a member of this authority..(and weren't we all thrilled when falaged did!) it a hope beyond most of us! we could aspire to worse things than being names as citation in the OED!
and as for me, no olympic gold medals, no rhodes scholarships, no likelihood of a nobel prize, never miss america, so many things, outside my reach.. but i can hope, that some useage of mine, would be, could be, cited, as the prime example of usage..
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we could aspire to worse things than being names as citation in the OED!
but that's just it, troy. it doesn't work that way and the chances of your name being associated with a word are just about nonexistant, even if you did coin it! you have to get it used, in an article or a book... multiple uses in a variety of sources and geographically diverse places -- and those are what get cited.
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Dear tsuwm: Your word "ludicrosity" sent me to Internet. There I found several sites that use the word, and a URL that has a picture of Osama bin Laden taken when he was a student at Oxford! http://ludicrosity.blogspot.com/
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>does Bob Greene get credit for "yuppie"?
nope. [QED2]
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Obviously missing from your wide array of talents, ledasdottir, is synesthesia."
Dear Faldage: Unfair that you should accuse of troy of ignorance of synesthesia.
Ah, you mistake me, my good Dr. Bill. I accused her not of ignorance, I but commented that she was deficient in the talent.
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