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Anonymous Sun Feb 24 07:38:35 2019 No.12654610 [Reply] [Original]

Very often I lack a precise word for what I want to express. There are many words missing in our languages.

Some take it upon themselves to create new words. An example is the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ftDjebw8aA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkLgLtVreg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osrvO9Q3PtI

Do you know of any others?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 07:53:44 2019 No.12654646 Gabunago

Anonymous Sun Feb 24 07:56:22 2019 No.12654652

>>12654646
Gabunago - /gah-boo-nah-go/ -

noun:

1. Literally all words were invented.

But, having said that, making up Dr. Seuss tier nonsense words because you think your ideas are too unique and obscure for any existing language, well... fuck off.

The whole point of language is that you can string words together to get to more specific meanings. Creating a new word and then putting that sequence of words together in the definition is pretentious and silly.

Did you notice how I combined a bunch of words rather than just using one? Fuck it, this whole post is now just the definition of a word I just made up.

2. archaic. Fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 08:02:08 2019 No.12654669 Mactified

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 08:05:26 2019 No.12654678 >>12654669 Mactified - /mak-ti-fy-d/ 1. To be BTFO by >>12654652 2. [archaic] To be disembowled following a disagreement or the loss of an argument.

Anonymous Sun Feb 24 08:11:29 2019 No.12654697

>>12654610
>Very often I lack a precise word for what I want to express
Read more, learn more words. Develop your writing skills so that you can figure out what you want to say. I guarantee that you don't have anything that interesting or unique to say. If you really did, you'd be able to find a way to say it without having to make up silly words.

Anonymous Sun Feb 24 11:25:08 2019 No.12655422

>vemödalen - n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.

>using a paragraph to define the word
>but making it sound like the word is what matters
>even though no one is ever going to use that word or remember it

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 11:26:32 2019 No.12655427 >>12654610 But these words are made up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 11:36:25 2019 No.12655469 >>12655427 can you provide me with an example of a word that wasn't made up at some point?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 12:25:38 2019 No.12655687 >>12654678 based

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 12:28:04 2019 No.12655696 >>12654610 That's the whole point of language you brainlet. You create a new form of an idea by wrapping similar words together.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 13:45:05 2019 No.12656108 OP really thought this was it

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 17:24:07 2019 No.12657308 >>12656108 What do you mean? OP here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 17:30:07 2019 No.12657356 Gerogerigegege

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