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Originally Posted by Lovebird
I enjoy the art of making up words, as long as it's done deliberately and obviously, and it isn't just because the speaker is ignorant. To me there is a difference between saying "agreeance" because you don't know the proper word is "agreement," and the late Paul Harvey, for example, making up words like "infanticipating" and "guesstimate."
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So true, but not crazy about 'gynormous' or even the over use of 'super' lol
That said, while I don't usually make up words, I do like to stretch the meaning of words in common and not so common use. A lot of words meant different things years ago...and it's fun to push the previous limitations by reminding people how rich and complex some words are.
It's like painting with vocabulary.
