Made up words
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if even eyeball was made up by Shakespeare I don't give a hoot anymore
Any words of questionable legitimacy you believe have a place in your writing?
I've found castrophany and vigitant to be useful on occasions in the past. Fiction opens this up much more, but castrophany has certianly found its way into a paper or two I've submitted
Maybe unrelated but I personally feel eachother should be appropriate as one word in certain circumstances
boulderous
There's literally no reason it cant be a word so I use it and dont give a fuck
Desu once you know your Greek/Latin roots making up words is whatever
>>8078579
If its possible for people to understand what people have intended with an utterance, its a word, thats all there is to it
convey meaning and everything is fine,
>>8078595
yes exactly, that's the only reason I do it and it baffles me people might feel otherwise. By 'made up' I guess I mean words your professors still circle in red or your peer review partner (i went to a uni where i literally only wrote papers) goes 'I noticed a mistake here, you see, I believe you mispelled.../ I think you might have meant.../etc.', bc of course 'made up' describes every word
I like backformations of nouns from adjectives.
For example, instead of 'coziness' from 'cozy,' use 'coze' instead