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Feb 1st, 2008 05:48 AM
saizo_ogasawara My made up word...
Uh... "Re-Cog".
Means Re-running of the mind's cogs.
Jan 30th, 2008 10:10 AM
Fat_Hippo I recently accidently invented the word "Arschwixxbirne", which is german for...well, "asscumpear". Don't ask what or why, it just suddenly came out of my mouth...the word, not the asscumpear.
According to recent reports, the word has spread in popularity, and an entire elementary school has taken to using the word...ugh, that's just fucked up.
Hope that doesn't lower your opinon of me too much.
Jan 29th, 2008 06:57 PM
Sethomas Meta humor requires that we make up a word meaning "made-up word". Since I have delusions of having classical integrity, I'll put effort into this.

The most erudite word I know for "made up/imaginary" is "chimerical". Pub's source of affection, "neologism", is distinctly Greek. I hate it when pseudosophs mix up Greek and Latin etymological roots, so I had to make sure that chimera has Attic roots. Apparently it does, but via Latin. The Greek form is Chimaira, so I guess the best candidate is "chimairalogism". I don't really like it, but we take what we can, right?

In English, by the way, Chimera came to us via Latin through Wyclif's Prologue (I assume to his translation of the bible, which landed him in deep shit because of the theological conventions he inserted to his own ends). His use: "Beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun"*. The problem is that he was talking about a specific mythological animal, and the word didn't come to mean "fantastical" until the late 16th century. But, when I was reading Hume he used the word ALL THE FUCKING TIME in that sense so I stand by it.

*Late Middle English, Londonian dialect, for "Beasts called Chimeras that had parts of each [other] beast, but didn't exist except in opinion." Here, "opinion" means more like "what they thought" than "a personal stance". (My amateur translation.)
Jan 29th, 2008 04:25 PM
MarioRPG
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I woke up today because schimid was laughing hysterically and he told me that I suddenly got this huge grin in my sleep.
So... he was watching you sleep?
Jan 29th, 2008 04:06 PM
Chojin apparently, the guy in my dream was telling someone to get off of him, telling another guy that he was being all "caressive".

As in, "to caress."

I guess you had to be there.
Jan 29th, 2008 04:04 PM
Chojin I woke up today because schimid was laughing hysterically and he told me that I suddenly got this huge grin in my sleep.

And it was because I had a dream that one of his friends who's always trying to be intellectual said this ridiculous word while trying to be smart and I told him the word but since it was a dream I don't remember it now.

Maybe he can come in later and let you all know what it was ;<
Jan 29th, 2008 01:49 AM
executioneer hey pub
Jan 29th, 2008 01:38 AM
Pub Lover Taking about people I wouldn't mind spending the night with... Hi Willie. :D
Jan 29th, 2008 01:32 AM
executioneer man if we're gonna talk about turning nouns into verbs this thread is gonna get effing long
Jan 29th, 2008 01:10 AM
Sacks This thread is now about GIRL TALK
Jan 29th, 2008 12:58 AM
Pub Lover Totally go, it's a great place if you don't have to live there.
Jan 29th, 2008 12:56 AM
chemquat if that's so then i'm totally out.

on the bright side, i suppose this has upped my chances with frost, supposing i ever actually go to england.
Jan 29th, 2008 12:53 AM
Pub Lover Everyone knows Pegg is all about the anonymous gay sex.
Jan 29th, 2008 12:50 AM
chemquat like our chances with pegg are any better.
Jan 29th, 2008 12:50 AM
El Oh El I've always been fond of shmexy
Jan 29th, 2008 12:49 AM
Pub Lover Mainly because I don't think I have a chance with Nick Frost.
Jan 29th, 2008 12:48 AM
chemquat i'll answer your question with another question: do you have nerve endings in your nipples?
Jan 29th, 2008 12:47 AM
Pub Lover I want to fuck Simon Pegg. ;(
Jan 29th, 2008 12:44 AM
Sacks Yes, and do you derive pleasure from this 'boob'ing?
Jan 29th, 2008 12:43 AM
chemquat i started using the word "boob" as a verb.

as in: i wanna boob that guy.

that eventually led to GILB: guy i'd like to boob.

to clarify, boob was never euphamism for sex. boob started as a comment i made about simon pegg: i love simon pegg. i don't want to necessarily eff him, i just want to hang out with him a little, maybe rub my boobs on him some.
Jan 28th, 2008 10:02 PM
Pub Lover Pub Lover didn't like this thread, but people kept posting in it. ;(
Jan 28th, 2008 09:52 PM
JediScum Pub Lover didn't like "gaytarded" so don't say it any more.
Jan 28th, 2008 08:22 PM
sspadowsky I knew a co-worker who had a knack for inadvertently coming up with new and strange words. He didn't mean to; I think he had some weird form of dyslexia.

Some that I can remember:
Remorsing
Deboggled
Appetizable

Fuck. We had a whole whiteboard full of them, but that's all I can remember.
Jan 28th, 2008 08:09 PM
JediScum Once I was a roadie for a band, and after the end of their set Jimbo yells "Stick around for FAGATRON!" Weird, cause they didn't have fag or tron in their name and the band didn't have any problems with them (until that night).
Jan 27th, 2008 12:25 PM
Fat_Hippo In my family we occasionaly use the word "Zwöl" which is mix of the german word "zwei", meaning 2, and the danish wörd, "øl", meaning beer, so it means 2 beers. It's usually used by my parents in the context of "Hey, go get us 2 beers!". I'm like their official beer-fetcher or something...*grumble*
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