create a new word

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 11:46 PM

I (as far as I know) made up and am still using the term "e-dress" as a shorter and easier term for "email address" than "email addy."
It still hasn't caught on, apparently, but I can't quite understand why, when I continually run across other, similar terms such as "e-tail" (electronic retail) and "e-commerce."

That's my term, an' I'm stickin' to it!

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:16 AM

I've seen that term around for years, Genie. Often without the hyphen.

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Escapee
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:43 AM

My six year old grandson calls his infant cousin his grandsister.

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 05:37 AM

Cluin... fecanese... hahaha, I LOVE it!

When communicating on the itnernut (yes, internut), I dunno why so many people ask me what I mean when I say I sent them an e. Or, what I mean when I ask them for their eaddy.... okay, that one, maybe.

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 07:39 AM

Peewaddle ! = nonsense, bollocks (being spoken)

When a grave mistake has been made : I've bopped a drollock.

Divlock - combination of 'divvy' and 'pillock'

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 09:18 AM

"Globbers" for rubber gloves.

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:41 PM

Interesting that you've often seen "e-dress" or "edress," Cluin.   I've been using it for about 10 years and never once seen anyone else use it.
Your experience seems more normal, though, since the term follows naturally from all the other "e-" neologisms (etrade, etail, email, e-commerce).


Another I've made up pertains to a condition my cat regularly gets in summertime, when the fleas get really active. (It can be controlled with flea collars and, if necessary, shots from the vet, but I've never been able to prevent it completely.) Fleas bite, then the cat scratches the bites and gets a skin irritation and scabs from scratching them. There's an actual veterinary medical term for this - some sort of contact dermatitis - but my way of referring to it is:

"Secondary flea-bitis."

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:47 PM

Uncle Dave O, harking back to high school days, you may have heard these:

"bluefish" - past tense of "blowfish"

"blice" - plural of "blouse"

"spice" - plural of "spice"

"kleenices" - plural of "Kleenex"

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 01:19 PM

One I've heard a lot, over the past few years is
"craptastic."   Meaning, is not obvious, is "amazingly crappy."

But I think the field of psychology could use more terms for its sub-areas of study:

"ohsittology"   - the study of sudden strong negative emotional responses

"priogotry" - racism, sexism, or other prejudice expressed in especially obnoxious fasion or by especially obnoxious people

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 03:58 PM

Thurber coined the term carcinomenclature
Useful term

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 04:02 PM

One that needs no explanation:

"mammOWWWgram"

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 04:22 PM

swandipitous - astonishing

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Lox
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 08:06 PM

Been looking through to see if someone provided an explanation of "BLOG" and couldn't find one - apologies if I overlooked it, but here it is as I undestand it.

Blog ---> looks like ---> Biog.

Biog is short for Biography.

Ta daa   ^_^

Subject: RE: create a new word
From: Genie
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 09:44 PM

Lox, the derivation of "blog" is simply that it's a shortened form of "weblog."

Much as I used to call mushrooms "shrooms" -- which my Brit boyfriend thought was weird, though I later discovered that term was in common usage among users of the psychedelic varieties.

Genie