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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 . #5440 08/20/00 06:27 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5441 08/20/00 11:38 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Well, Max, you have lost me entirely. I have no idea what NG or TINW is. As for guidelines to coining words--if anyone has actually sat down and made a list, then I think that, like whoever it was that extrapolated an entire Klingon language from a few grunts on Star Trek, he or she just doesn't have enough to do. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #5442 08/20/00 11:56 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5443 08/20/00 12:03 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >I have no idea what NG or TINW is< Jackie, I've never heard them before either. My guess is that they stand for 'network group' and 'those in (the) network' respectively. I'm working from context. Which brings me to the only reasonable guideline I can think of - within context, it should be possible to work out (more or less) what the new coining means. (Note I'm thinking of everyday words here, rather than scientific etc.) Which reminds me of Jabberwocky, which is of course always quoted in discussions on coining words. 'Twas brillig and the slithy tove did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe. I have a question - what part of speech is 'outgrabe'? I have mused about this off and on for years (yes, I know I am a sad individual!) and still cannot decide whether it is an adjective or the past tense of a verb. My gut says 'verb', as in give/gave, but my brain insists that there is no English verb with a 'b' in that position and leaves me unconvinced. Opinions, anyone? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #5444 08/20/00 12:17 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I wield my vorpal sword #5445 08/20/00 01:01 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass wait a mim! the mome raths how?? outgrabe! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5446 08/21/00 07:19 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 31 Long Beach, CA, USA M michaelo newbie michaelo newbie M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 31 Long Beach, CA, USA How can one ponder Jabberwocky and not be happy go lucky? Maybe I have the ditty too Disneyfied since I frequently think of it with its accompanying tune. I'm talking serious endomusia! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5447 08/21/00 11:04 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Avy old hand Avy old hand Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 One way of coining words is to make extender words. This is a list of extender words (not mine at all), created by all those to whom (who?) I give due acknowledgement. Computter - to idle away time on line Skuldruggery- dealing in contaminated narcotics Puniversity - a really really small university Servoices - din of the waiters' idle chatter while you wait for someone to take you order Pregret - remorse about something you have not done yet Rumbrella - the little paper parasol decorating a tropical cocktail Sneasoning - heavy dose of pepper Barithimetic - figuring out who owes what for drinks Sindex - list of ones vices Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5448 08/22/00 10:07 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky >>'Twas brillig and the slithy tove did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe. I have a question - what part of speech is 'outgrabe'? Speaking of not having enough to do, she said ironically, pouncing on this eagerly... I've just spent several minutes pondering, and my opinion is that outgrabe is an adjective, because it is "obvious" that mimsy is an adjective, and thus the sentence would be balanced. Whatever a tove is, it gyred and gimbled, which are "obviously" verbs. Therefore it makes sense to me that there would be two adjectives in the next sentence: the borogroves were mimsy, and the mome raths were outgrabe. I do have quite enough to do, but chose to have glorious fun with this instead! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Guidelines on coining words? #5449 08/22/00 11:51 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia P paulb addict paulb addict P Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Brillig, Jackie! 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