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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Jun 27, 2014 10:00:17 GMT 5.5
Crapification[crap + ify + cation] Example: 1. It was the magic moment preceding a revelation, a moment I never much cared for since the revelation so often revealed nothing, like a Christmas present full of sand or maybe a dog turd. Any elaboration on utility runs the risk of unnecessarily crapifying the world. (James Greve: Sonic Butler (2004))
3. We accept this, honor it, believe in it like a religion, hope to be able to get in on some of the action ourselves. There is nothing we can do about it. It is a fact of life, like evolution, gravity, the Kreb cycle. It's called free market capitalism and it's rotting the quality of life for ninety-five percent of Americans. And there is no coherent opposition to it. And that, my friends, is the crapification of your country. (Tom Badyna: The Crapification of America (25 June 2006)) 2. Google has been placing more and more crap around search results, which is very annoying, but it turns out this crapification may work out quite well for the giant internet company. That's reportedly because people can't really tell anymore what's a Google advertisement and what's a Google search result, turning the simple act of internet searching into a confusing profitable mess. (Ryan Tate, 16 April 2012) Other forms: crapify, crapificational, crapificatory, de-caprify, etc.
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Jun 28, 2014 1:59:22 GMT 5.5
Oxydox Late last afternoon, Rituparna Sengupta, a young colleague of mine, who sits quite next to me sounded as if she called me--besides her very soft and low voice appearing to be a word in the vocative case, there is no colleague in our office the sound of whose name rings even near mine, and her person was turned toward me in such a way as nobody would bear themselves except when they are poised to start a conversation.
"Yes?" I answered.
Then I saw her lips move with a sough issuing from that, but I could not make any speech sounds out of that. That was nothing unusual of that very soft-speaking girl with a low voice, and in fact I had had to crane my neck with my head cocked to one side so the funnel of my ear to catch her faint words several times before that.
"Sorry, I can't hear you."
She spoke louder, but that was still not audible enough. After my third "sorry" she said, "Ok, I'll write." That I heard.
"This phrase," she wrote via Lync in a few seconds. I waited for what would complete the sentence. Then came in another couple of seconds, "knowledgeable ignorance".
I read the phrase, but the crux of what she wanted to say about the phrase was yet to come. While I was expectantly wondering, the next message came completing the point, "Is that an oxymoron or a paradox?"
"Hmmmm!"Interested, I sighed. Then I quickly keyed my reply and hit Enter to send: "That will depend either on the intention of the speaker/writer or on how the listener/reader understands it. As for me I'm inclined to regard it more as an oxymoron than a paradox."
"O, thanks!" It was obvious that my answer gladdened her asif she received an expected answer.
"Probably my understanding is influenced much by my tendency toward oxymorons."
"I've created a word. Oxydox. Words which partake of the senses of both an oxymoron and a paradox." She completed the circle.
"Excellent!" I quickly replied with renewed interest. "As a lover of words and morphology, I love neologisms. And this one is really interesting."
While I was typing in my Lync textbox, I received her question, "Have you coined any word for yourself?"
"Morphophilos!"
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Jul 3, 2014 18:19:45 GMT 5.5
SextortionA portmanteau of sex + extortion. It's called "Sextortion," a crime exclusive to the digital age. Predators pretend to be teens on social media and gaming sites. They befriend young people, gain their trust and entice them to send lewd photos of themselves. Then they use the photos to extort more and more illicit images. (Marisol Bello, USA TODAY, 03 July 2014www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/01/sextortion-teens-online/11580633/?csp=fbfanpage. Other forms: sextort, sextortionate, sextortionately, sextortioner, sextortionist, sextortionary, etc.
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Jul 6, 2014 11:10:58 GMT 5.5
demonym Obviously a portmanteau from demo(graphy) and -nym (as in synonym, antonym, homonym, etc.)
Paul Dickson did not mean it to be a nonce word. Whatever it may be, but we need a term that describes inhabitants of a place–Angelenos for LA and so on (tamo Surjit of ADAM, along the line of "Delhiites" for inhabitants of Drlhi, calls the people of Kakching "Kakchingites, though I'm not fond of this coinage). Steve Poole says 'to my ear "demonym" sounds as if it should mean one's demon name. (Oh hi, my demonym is Satan Pale.)', but in the absence of a better-sounding term, this one deserves staying. Yet, only time will prove whether this coinage takes off.
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