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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Made up words! make your own words!
How to Create a Made Up Word
A Dublin theater proprietor named Richard Daly made a bet that he could create a nonsense word and within 48 hours that word would be on everyone's lips and they would have made up a meaning for it. He won that bet by painting the word "quiz" all over town. While this may not be the true story, or even your intent when creating a made-up word, making up words can be fun, and by following a few simple steps you can expand the ways you do just that. Be careful, though. You might end up creating insquantulous muskaroons that are downright sprunky.
Understand that English words are created in the following ways:
Steps:
Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. By taking a glance at the links below by Infoplease, you may recognize some common word portions already.
Technology, especially as it relates to computers and the Internet. Examples of these can be found at Technology Dictionary.
Other countries. For example, "restaurant" is a word that was picked up directly from the French. See if you can find any at Foreignword.com.
Basic need. Sniglets are a humorous example of this.
Try a portmanteau. This is two words mashed together to create one new word that has attributes of both of the previous words. For example, Australian + Indonesian = Australesian, which could mean "someone hailing from Australia and Indonesia."
Determine why you want to create a word. Is it for the same reason Sniglets were made, because there is an object or use that simply needs a word? Or is it because you just have a few minutes to spare and you want to make up a word, or a handful of them?
Mix and match from the above until you find the word or words you want.
Have fun.
Tips:
Another technique you can use is mixing and matching basic syllabic sounds. For example: sh+na+thee could then be spelled "Sh'nathe" and--voilà!--you now have the name of an Elven town (or a really cruel way to say "She's nasty").
If you like, put your made-up words on the discussion page for everyone to see. Who knows? You could be as somewhat-famous as Richard Daly and the word "quiz."
Try posting it on online dictionary websites, like urbandictionary.com. It just might catch on!
Read Jabberwocky for inspiration. It has lots of made-up words that somehow manage to sound just like what they mean.
Once your word has been created, don't use it too much. Use it when it makes sense, and explain it if someone asks what it means. The more you use it in the right scenario, the more you will notice your friends using it!
If you are going to create many monikers, then make up your own dictionary of made-up words. You never know, one of your words may appear in a real one one day!
warnings:
Don't consider Richard Daly's example (mentioned in the summary) as an excuse to graffiti your made-up word all over town.
Don't worry about skipping steps; the point is just to have fun.
Most scholarly dictionaries consider words to be neologisms or protologisms unless they are in widespread use over some period of time. Don't submit made-up words where they're not wanted.
From: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Made-Up-Word
MY MADE UP WORDS:
1. Adultivity:
The state or condition of being an adult.
2. Banjoologist:
An expert in banjo based musical styles
3. Drunkening:
The process of becoming drunk, a gerund form of the pseudo-verb "To Drunken".
4. Screamapillar:
A caterpillar that screams nearly all the time, even as it sleeps. Without constant reassurement, it will die, and it is sexually attracted to fire. It is endangered and illegal to kill one, despite the fact that it is a menace
5. Nuisancefon:
Mock German, meaning a phone which causes distress.
A Dublin theater proprietor named Richard Daly made a bet that he could create a nonsense word and within 48 hours that word would be on everyone's lips and they would have made up a meaning for it. He won that bet by painting the word "quiz" all over town. While this may not be the true story, or even your intent when creating a made-up word, making up words can be fun, and by following a few simple steps you can expand the ways you do just that. Be careful, though. You might end up creating insquantulous muskaroons that are downright sprunky.
Understand that English words are created in the following ways:
Steps:
Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. By taking a glance at the links below by Infoplease, you may recognize some common word portions already.
Technology, especially as it relates to computers and the Internet. Examples of these can be found at Technology Dictionary.
Other countries. For example, "restaurant" is a word that was picked up directly from the French. See if you can find any at Foreignword.com.
Basic need. Sniglets are a humorous example of this.
Try a portmanteau. This is two words mashed together to create one new word that has attributes of both of the previous words. For example, Australian + Indonesian = Australesian, which could mean "someone hailing from Australia and Indonesia."
Determine why you want to create a word. Is it for the same reason Sniglets were made, because there is an object or use that simply needs a word? Or is it because you just have a few minutes to spare and you want to make up a word, or a handful of them?
Mix and match from the above until you find the word or words you want.
Have fun.
Tips:
Another technique you can use is mixing and matching basic syllabic sounds. For example: sh+na+thee could then be spelled "Sh'nathe" and--voilà!--you now have the name of an Elven town (or a really cruel way to say "She's nasty").
If you like, put your made-up words on the discussion page for everyone to see. Who knows? You could be as somewhat-famous as Richard Daly and the word "quiz."
Try posting it on online dictionary websites, like urbandictionary.com. It just might catch on!
Read Jabberwocky for inspiration. It has lots of made-up words that somehow manage to sound just like what they mean.
Once your word has been created, don't use it too much. Use it when it makes sense, and explain it if someone asks what it means. The more you use it in the right scenario, the more you will notice your friends using it!
If you are going to create many monikers, then make up your own dictionary of made-up words. You never know, one of your words may appear in a real one one day!
warnings:
Don't consider Richard Daly's example (mentioned in the summary) as an excuse to graffiti your made-up word all over town.
Don't worry about skipping steps; the point is just to have fun.
Most scholarly dictionaries consider words to be neologisms or protologisms unless they are in widespread use over some period of time. Don't submit made-up words where they're not wanted.
From: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Made-Up-Word
MY MADE UP WORDS:
1. Adultivity:
The state or condition of being an adult.
2. Banjoologist:
An expert in banjo based musical styles
3. Drunkening:
The process of becoming drunk, a gerund form of the pseudo-verb "To Drunken".
4. Screamapillar:
A caterpillar that screams nearly all the time, even as it sleeps. Without constant reassurement, it will die, and it is sexually attracted to fire. It is endangered and illegal to kill one, despite the fact that it is a menace
5. Nuisancefon:
Mock German, meaning a phone which causes distress.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Unexpected exam
Is it possible to have an unexpected exam?
Yes, I think it's possible to have an unexpected exam. I think you need some kind of information to expect something. the information about an event like an exam is given in date, and time. in this case only the information that there will come an exam was given, so they could expect it every time, every moment. and that makes it unexpected.
Yes, I think it's possible to have an unexpected exam. I think you need some kind of information to expect something. the information about an event like an exam is given in date, and time. in this case only the information that there will come an exam was given, so they could expect it every time, every moment. and that makes it unexpected.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Rob-the-Philosopher
Escaping Death
Now Judge Stella had been doing the job for 20 years. In that time she had had many disagreeable, violent people in front of her. However Stella was made of stern stuff. She had never hesitated in sending people to the gallows. “Der Teufel steckt im Detail. “ she used to say – as she sent a prisoner to his death…
The prisoner she saw today was the worst, though. This prisoner was called ‘Rob-the-Philosopher’.
Stella didn’t know much about philosophy – and the title of this prisoner annoyed her.
Stella said: 'I intend to teach you the value of honesty, prisoner. You have been found guilty of being a crook and a swindler and of repeatedly and systematically lying to the court to try to save your wretched skin. Well, justice has caught up with you now, my friend. The sentence of this court is . . .' (here Stella pauses for effect and dons a pair of black gloves and a little black hat) ' . . that you be taken from here to a place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead.
. . . BUT, as I am a magnanimous Judge, I shall give you one more opportunity to learn the value of truth. If, on the day of your execution, you sign a statement making one true declaration, the sentence will be commuted to ten years imprisonment. If, on the other hand, your statement is, in the view of the Chief Executioner, false, the sentence will be carried out immediately. And I warn you,' Stella adds, seeing his words having no effect on the crook, 'the Chief is a member of the Logical Positivist Executioners' Club and will dismiss any metaphysical nonsense as false, so don't try any of your tricks on her! There, now you have one day in which to make your choice!'
At this the jury of Eric and Richard, Veronika, Nico, Abraham, Karla, Lau, Celina (now recovered), Vitoria, Andres, Ignacia, and Lau applauded at the severity of the sentence and everyone in the courtroom looks at the defendant, pleased to see such a villain get a heavy sentence, coupled with the humiliating public true declaration. But, strangely, the Philosopher just smirks back as he is led away to Death Row.
The day of the execution arrives and the crook, beaming, signs a declaration which is handed to the Chief Executioner who reads it with growing bewilderment. Then, snarling, she crumples it up and orders the Philosopher be released, with no penalty whatsoever to be ~imposed.
What could the prisoner have said in the statement to have saved himself?
The possible statements presented in that paper are variable. Rob-the-Philosopher could have express many philosophical ideas in that statement. The aim of the statement was to prove that his life was worth to be saved and carried on. As he was released with no penalty at all, it implies that statement was really important to either the Judge (yeeeaaah, the selfish judge) or to many people, as Rob-the-Philosopher would not be able to stick to that statement being sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.
He has presented himself as an important person, maybe he has made the Judge to look at his crimes from another point of view.
He might have explained his perception of good and evil, the truth and lies, which impressed the Judge and made her review his case.
My guess, however, that he wrote that he is the father of the Judge and he proved it somehow.
Now Judge Stella had been doing the job for 20 years. In that time she had had many disagreeable, violent people in front of her. However Stella was made of stern stuff. She had never hesitated in sending people to the gallows. “Der Teufel steckt im Detail. “ she used to say – as she sent a prisoner to his death…
The prisoner she saw today was the worst, though. This prisoner was called ‘Rob-the-Philosopher’.
Stella didn’t know much about philosophy – and the title of this prisoner annoyed her.
Stella said: 'I intend to teach you the value of honesty, prisoner. You have been found guilty of being a crook and a swindler and of repeatedly and systematically lying to the court to try to save your wretched skin. Well, justice has caught up with you now, my friend. The sentence of this court is . . .' (here Stella pauses for effect and dons a pair of black gloves and a little black hat) ' . . that you be taken from here to a place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead.
. . . BUT, as I am a magnanimous Judge, I shall give you one more opportunity to learn the value of truth. If, on the day of your execution, you sign a statement making one true declaration, the sentence will be commuted to ten years imprisonment. If, on the other hand, your statement is, in the view of the Chief Executioner, false, the sentence will be carried out immediately. And I warn you,' Stella adds, seeing his words having no effect on the crook, 'the Chief is a member of the Logical Positivist Executioners' Club and will dismiss any metaphysical nonsense as false, so don't try any of your tricks on her! There, now you have one day in which to make your choice!'
At this the jury of Eric and Richard, Veronika, Nico, Abraham, Karla, Lau, Celina (now recovered), Vitoria, Andres, Ignacia, and Lau applauded at the severity of the sentence and everyone in the courtroom looks at the defendant, pleased to see such a villain get a heavy sentence, coupled with the humiliating public true declaration. But, strangely, the Philosopher just smirks back as he is led away to Death Row.
The day of the execution arrives and the crook, beaming, signs a declaration which is handed to the Chief Executioner who reads it with growing bewilderment. Then, snarling, she crumples it up and orders the Philosopher be released, with no penalty whatsoever to be ~imposed.
What could the prisoner have said in the statement to have saved himself?
The possible statements presented in that paper are variable. Rob-the-Philosopher could have express many philosophical ideas in that statement. The aim of the statement was to prove that his life was worth to be saved and carried on. As he was released with no penalty at all, it implies that statement was really important to either the Judge (yeeeaaah, the selfish judge) or to many people, as Rob-the-Philosopher would not be able to stick to that statement being sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.
He has presented himself as an important person, maybe he has made the Judge to look at his crimes from another point of view.
He might have explained his perception of good and evil, the truth and lies, which impressed the Judge and made her review his case.
My guess, however, that he wrote that he is the father of the Judge and he proved it somehow.
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