/lit/ - Literature

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

>>7271367

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

>>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.

>>7271363
memer
one who memes

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.

>>7271455
Quenched?

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

>>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.

lacrimatics

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

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))

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

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."

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

>>7271659
I actually like this.

>>7271363
I invented nigger.

>>7271715
Feel free to use it.

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

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.

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

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

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

>>7271766
Who is the semen spring?

>>7271794
benis in vagine

>>7271554
Acolyte
Votary

Etc...

>>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.

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

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

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

Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

>>7271565
good

>>7271575

ikr, Shakespeare was a bad style hack :^)

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.

>>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.

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

And I know blinkered already has a meaning.

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

>>7271363

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

>>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.

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

>>7272863
Schway.

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

>>7272863
it pretty much is

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

Hmm....

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

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

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

>>7271455
Satiated

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

>>7273052
Slake

Literally means to satisfy or quench one's thirst.

>>7273068
It literally doesn't.

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

>>7273044
congrats tbh

>>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!"

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

>>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.

>>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

>>7271363
I squanch my family.

>>7273730
Gross

>>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.

Bump

>>7273683
Okay! Geez.

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

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

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

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

>>7275451
She had lesbian tendencies.

>>7275475
have you even been to /u/

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?

>>7275729
Give us an example.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

>>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

>>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

>>7275826
here's two uses

"That cup of Starbucks© looks very spendicious."

"James eyed the T-shirt spendiciously."

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

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

>>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,

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

>>7275877

>>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.

>>7275896
Seaworthy.
Trust me on this.

>>7275896
yarghable or yarrable

>>7271363
riverrun

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.

>>7273893

Dang

Hmmmmmm

lysistratic

>>7271363
Nothing in my writing, no.

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.

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

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.