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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 01:23:49 No.7271363 View Reply Report Delete

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I think all aspiring writers should be in a constant state wherein they are attempting to make up new words, how else do you expect to truly connect with anyone else?

Have you coined any words yourself, /lit/?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 01:24:50 No.7271367 Report Delete

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>>7271363
This is absurd, but yes, I have.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 01:33:14 No.7271390 Report Delete

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>>7271367

You can't just leave us on that cliffhanger. Share them.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 01:34:23 No.7271394 Report Delete

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>>7271363
It seems presumptuous to do this for its own sake although in personal writings if a word doesn't have a specific tense I will use it in that tense provided it sounds natural enough.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 01:54:03 No.7271437 Report Delete

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>>7271363
memer
one who memes

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:02:44 No.7271455 Report Delete

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I'm thinking quite often "Why isn't there a word for this?"
We have a word for what we are when we lose our parents, we have a word for what we are when we lose our partner in marriage.
Why isn't there a word for what we are when we lose our sibling(s) or our child(ren)?

There is also not a word for when we aren't thirsty anymore.

Do we need these words? I don't know.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:04:35 No.7271460 Report Delete

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>>7271455
Quenched?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:10:07 No.7271476 Report Delete

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insectitude is the only one i've come up with.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:45:21 No.7271554 Report Delete

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>>7271363
>>7271367

This.

But yes.... I've made up a few. Dedicant is my favorite, as in one who is dedicated to, usually referring to the object of the sentence.

"The dedicants of the temple offered hecatombs." for example.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:48:49 No.7271565 Report Delete

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lacrimatics

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:52:17 No.7271575 Report Delete

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it's a sign of bad style. cultivate existing language, you hack.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:59:49 No.7271591 Report Delete

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ya i coined the term "barshackled" in my latest novella whereas the person in question got shackled with an iron bar bent around his wrists as the super police had forgotten his handcuffs at the "purehouse" earlier that day(also a term i coined which is a play on the word whorehouse but there are only virgins there(the story's set in a dystopian world so it's pretty dark))

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:25:25 No.7271624 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I can't look at pictures of Frank anymore without remembering that part in her diary about the lesbian fantasies, jeez.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:46:43 No.7271659 Report Delete

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Jokeswagen

noun

neologism formed from combining the words "joke" and "Volkswagen"

1) A small car as used by clowns in certain circuses.
"Dozens of bozos filed out of their Jokeswagen."

2) A woman who engages in sexual promiscuity.
"Julia had sex with Mark last night, right after she broke up with David. She's such a Jokeswagen."

3) The vagina of a woman who engages in sexual promiscuity.
"Her cunt must be a Jokeswagen by now."

4) Any small container that holds seemingly more than is physically possible.
"The wizard's carrying bag is like a Jokeswagen."

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:09:13 No.7271689 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I always wonder this too. I still think it's amazing Shakespeare just fuck muh English language up with his ideas too

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:27:37 No.7271715 Report Delete

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>>7271659
I actually like this.

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:33:46 No.7271732 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I invented nigger.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:36:20 No.7271738 Report Delete

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>>7271715
Feel free to use it.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:37:49 No.7271740 Report Delete

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>>7271624
No shit, it wasn't written by a little girl it was written by the pedophile Jew who brought it to the publisher.

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk

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OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:49:38 No.7271766 Report Delete

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Inventing words for the sake of it, especially when there are already efficient phrases or terms for those same things is the vinedy (simplistic humor lacking any effort on the part of both speaker or audience, seen only as exceptional or otherwise worthy of note by those of lesser mental fortitude possibly in conjunction with a case of ADHD. -contraction of the words Vine and comedy-) of linguistics.
OC donut steel.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:56:15 No.7271779 Report Delete

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>>7271363
>ITT: /lit/-fags think they're shakespeare xD
publish a book first, get a grip

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:59:26 No.7271788 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I think using phrases in ways most people don't is good enough.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:01:44 No.7271794 Report Delete

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>>7271363
>how else do you expect to truly connect with anyone else?
using the language everyone else speaks

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:03:12 No.7271800 Report Delete

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>>7271766
Who is the semen spring?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:03:46 No.7271803 Report Delete

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>>7271794
benis in vagine

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:45:50 No.7271872 Report Delete

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>>7271554
Acolyte
Votary

Etc...

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:56:09 No.7271891 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I did that on vidya-related web forums when I was much younger. I wondered why everyone hated arguing with me, but now I understand.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 08:19:19 No.7272163 Report Delete

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Just this morning I used "chameleous" to describe the colors of something. It isn't a real word, but it should be.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 08:56:46 No.7272203 Report Delete

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If this was true, then shitty high fantasy authors would be the height of literature.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 11:14:49 No.7272537 Report Delete

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if you have to make up new words, language is obviously not a very good medium

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 11:44:06 No.7272651 Report Delete

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Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:32:51 No.7272774 Report Delete

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>>7271565
good

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:43:46 No.7272800 Report Delete

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>>7271575

ikr, Shakespeare was a bad style hack :^)

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:51:04 No.7272813 Report Delete

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Coining words is for attention whores and lazy writers. Good writers use what's available.

Shakespeare mainly created new meanings from existing words. McCarthy revived old words from obscurity.

And virtually every good writer can make meaningful, memorable idioms using nothing more than everyday language.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:51:18 No.7272814 Report Delete

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>>7271779

Where do you think new words come from?

I'll agree insofar that the vast majority of people will make shitty words that wont propagate, but there might be a few brilliant minds, even here, who could actually pull it off.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:52:59 No.7272819 Report Delete

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Blinkered: the feeling you get from binging on the internet all day

And I know blinkered already has a meaning.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:55:09 No.7272822 Report Delete

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>>7272800
name one that wasnt loaned from another language, onomatopoeic or a conversion from another sort of word. because OP dreams bigger.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:56:23 No.7272825 Report Delete

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>>7271363

Spangling: the concentrated, bright light emanating from a streetlamp, car headlight, or neon late-night Sushi sign at night

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 12:59:39 No.7272835 Report Delete

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>>7272814
>Where do you think new words come from?

Not from "aspiring writers" on /lit/ as OP calls it (the fucking cringe right there) as I said get a grip fags, release a book or two before acting like you are writers, let alone the new Shakespeare.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:10:10 No.7272863 Report Delete

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>>7272835
Inventing words is hardly the purview of writers alone.

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:13:25 No.7272872 Report Delete

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>>7272863
Schway.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:15:33 No.7272877 Report Delete

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>>7271363
Monkeystove: it's a combination of a monkey and a stove

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:57:32 No.7272982 Report Delete

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>>7272863
it pretty much is

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:11:19 No.7273029 Report Delete

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>>7271455
>our child(ren)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orbus#Latin

Hmm....

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:13:45 No.7273034 Report Delete

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>>7271766
>vinedy
a pun on 'vanity'?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:14:12 No.7273036 Report Delete

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>>7272982
No, it primarily isn't. Your everyday slang is not usually cooked up by an author, but tried and tested on the streets.

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:15:56 No.7273044 Report Delete

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>>7273034
I'll admit I didn't put that much thought into it.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:16:37 No.7273047 Report Delete

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>>7271455
Satiated

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:17:56 No.7273052 Report Delete

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>>7273047
I believe the correct term is "Sated".

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:21:43 No.7273068 Report Delete

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>>7273052
Slake

Literally means to satisfy or quench one's thirst.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:22:59 No.7273073 Report Delete

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>>7273068
It literally doesn't.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:25:32 No.7273083 Report Delete

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>>7273073
I mean it is the most specific of all definitions provided. Quench and sate are more general. Slake far less so.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:53:16 No.7273175 Report Delete

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>>7273044
congrats tbh

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 15:00:27 No.7273195 Report Delete

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>>7273073
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail;
Through utter drouth all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried "A sail! A sail!"

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 15:04:23 No.7273212 Report Delete

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>>7273195
Yeah. It's called context.
It means pretty much the same as sate.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:03:07 No.7273683 Report Delete

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>>7273212
But sate is more general. You can sate hunger too. But you can't slake hunger. You can quench a fire. But you can't slake a fire. Slake is a far more specific word. Don't be a bitch about it.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:09:53 No.7273709 Report Delete

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>>7271363
yes i come up with new words but i don't classify them as 'new words' in my brain so i cannot remember any now

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:16:07 No.7273730 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I squanch my family.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:18:43 No.7273737 Report Delete

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>>7273730
Gross

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:57:58 No.7273893 Report Delete

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>>7272835

OP here, I don't like you. Just because you conform to a paradigm of established standard doesn't mean we all do. Some of us have developed the ability to think critically and have noticed how MFA graduates are skewing the idea of what a 'good' Nobel is and dare to opine otherwise. Not that that has anything to do with your argument at all, which seems to focus on the idea that one must be an established writer before attempting to invent new words (what? why should a publishing house screening process and appealing to the lowest common denominator suddenly decide you can now try to invent words?) and I fail to see how a writer who hasn't published anything shouldn't be called an 'aspiring writer' it they are literally aspiring writers. And I'm not even going to go into how you fishing cringe material in such a description is totally arbitrary and says way more about you than anything else...

Just because you're unable to think outside the box and adhere to standards upheld by such a n aforementioned box doesn't mean we all are. Some of us are dreamers and some of us even dare to envision.

I feel sorry for you.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 20:05:09 No.7274387 Report Delete

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Bump

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 00:24:36 No.7275123 Report Delete

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>>7273683
Okay! Geez.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 00:26:19 No.7275131 Report Delete

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>>7271363
Damn Anne Frank was slewxy (new word for slutty, sexy Jew).

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 02:38:12 No.7275440 Report Delete

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The only thing that you keep changing
Is your name, your love keeps growing

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 02:42:05 No.7275451 Report Delete

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>>7275131
>Anne Frank was slewxy
She was pure.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 02:55:01 No.7275475 Report Delete

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>>7275131
She wasn't slutty. Go coin your words on someone else.

>>7275451
She had lesbian tendencies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 03:03:06 No.7275486 Report Delete

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>>7275475
have you even been to /u/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:44:59 No.7275729 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7275735 >>7278811

I've been thinking of starting using Graeco-Latin coins like Chinese roots are used in Japanese, i.e. to make shit sound cool. Is this stupid, yes or yes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:46:45 No.7275735 Report Delete

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>>7275729
Give us an example.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:09:28 No.7275786 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7275794 >>7275892

>>7275735
"Pentachromocephalotherium" for example, as the name for a monster with five heads of different colors.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:13:14 No.7275794 Report Delete

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>>7275786
Stupid as fuck fam.
I would instantly throw away a book with this word in it.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:15:52 No.7275801 Report Delete

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>>7275794
It's supposed to be silly doe.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:18:39 No.7275807 Report Delete

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I just invented a word in my head called spendicious. When you find something that makes you want to spend your money it's spendicious.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:19:41 No.7275810 Report Delete

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>>7275801
You did ask if it was stupid. :^)

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:22:02 No.7275813 Report Delete

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>>7275807
That's actually useful, why wasn't there a word like this before?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:23:40 No.7275816 Report Delete

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>>7275813
>>7275807
The word you are looking for is desirable.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:29:35 No.7275826 Report Delete

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>>7275816
not really dood

you can desire something you already have
you can desire something that money can't buy

Spendicious doesn't necessarily mean you want something, it means you want to spend your money

no, I think spendicious is a useful word for this age of capitalistic ennui and hollow consumer impulses, and everyone on /lit/ should use it in their shitty slice of life genre fiction- sorry, their 'Literary' novels and so coin a new word

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:38:44 No.7275842 Report Delete

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>>7271363
I have one but it was more that it came out of nowhere and it stuck to me because I thought it was a good one. However, its not in English, but in Bulgarian - 'nedoroden'

Basically the idea is that 'roden' means to be born, being given birth to etc. 'Nedoroden' would translate as 'not-born-enough' i.e. something like 'born prematurely' but if you want to say that in bulgarian its 'Nedonosen'.

I think its a quirky insult and also I may have autism

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:45:08 No.7275847 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:56:15 No.7275869 Report Delete

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"Wote" (adj) - To be rendered depressed or otherwise inoperable by realization of destiny. From the German name for Odin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:58:58 No.7275877 Report Delete

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the term "shop angst", a feeling of nausea or disgust at advertising and consumerist culture

"friend doubt", the feeling that your friends are not really your friends, that your friendships are based on superficial ties without any real camaraderie or loyalty

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:07:24 No.7275892 Report Delete

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>>7275786
Sounds like a children's book. Not in a bad way though, just that way.

Probably because we actually use graeco-latin roots for animal classification so it seems like you're actually trying to mesh a dragon with five multicolored heads into our normal world. If that's your intention, then sure I guess it works. Just sounds a rather silly off the cuff,

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:10:10 No.7275896 Report Delete

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>>7275807
What's the word for wanting to pirate something?

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:11:32 No.7275899 Report Delete

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>>7275877

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:12:04 No.7275902 Report Delete

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>>7275826
I like it, but I think >>7275847 is using it poorly.

Spendicious is how I would describe the shit on etsy that I really shouldn't buy, like wrought iron hnefatafle boards.

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk

OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:12:32 No.7275903 Report Delete

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>>7275896
Seaworthy.
Trust me on this.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:12:47 No.7275905 Report Delete

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>>7275896
yarghable or yarrable

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:14:14 No.7275909 Report Delete

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>>7271363
riverrun

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:30:40 No.7275940 Report Delete

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Those discouraging the phrase coiners should stop and think that maybe they are the reason dictionaries started adding shit like the chillax and grrrl. Gotta stay in business.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 13:09:35 No.7276891 Report Delete

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>>7273893

Dang

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:19:54 No.7278592 Report Delete

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Hmmmmmm

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:26:05 No.7278623 Report Delete

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lysistratic

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:26:58 No.7278629 Report Delete

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>>7271363
Nothing in my writing, no.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:38:44 No.7278674 Report Delete

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I had just read the word "nevertheless" and for some reason thought up the compound word "hisorher". I have always heard or read it in this order but I suppose it could be allowable to spell it "herorhis".
Just a nice utility word for the times.

>>7278623
Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:15:55 No.7278794 Report Delete

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>>7271455
>We have a word for what we are when we lose our parents, we have a word for what we are when we lose our partner in marriage.

Is the word 'sad' ?

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:23:26 No.7278811 Report Delete

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>>7275729
no, because i don't like it. use word of germanic origin

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:36:26 No.7279594 Report Delete

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Hurgle - a verb meaning to raise someone towards the ceiling and waggle them around, and
Gangol -the way something lightweight skitters and pops off the ground as it's being dragged behind something else.

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