we all want to leave a legacy, right? it's encoded in our dna that we want to leave something behind after
we shuffle off this mortal coil(i like the idea of shuffling off a mortal coil, kind of like doing a jazz-era dance
that leaves you dead. like 'shuffle off to buffalo', but replace 'buffalo' with 'the land of the dead'). some of us want to leave kids, some of us want to leave art, etc.
i think that we should collectively aspire to leaving behind an english language that includes words
that aren't, at present, real words.
my favorite non-word of the moment is 'supposively'.
is in 'george w bush supposively did A LOT of cocaine in his relative youth.'
it's kind of like an explosive version of 'supposedly'.
see, 'supposedly' is a milque-toast word, based purely on supposition and a lack of commitment.
but 'supposively'(which isn't actually a word. yet.)is the 'yeah, sure' version of 'supposedly'.
example:
'supposedly gw bush did a lot of cocaine.'
see, that's subtle, understated.
but:
'supposively gw bush did a lot of cocaine.'
this is a slam-dunk insinuation, as if to say 'ok, i don't have facts to back up what i'm saying, but everyone
knows i'm right.'
this doesn't quite work in that example, as everyone does, in fact, know that gw bush did a lot of coke
in his youth. right?
this might explain why his brain is so riddled with gigantic holes, like grey texan swiss cheese.
now i think i might've just thrown up a little bit, as the thought of gw bush's head being
filled with pockmarked grey swiss cheese is disgusting, if apt.
any other suggestions of non-words that we can smuggle into the o.e.d?
'chaise lounge'? or is that too obscure and interior decorator-y?
an expression that people use a lot that i really like is 'self depreciating'.
i mean, in actual fact it's 'self deprecating', but 'self depreciating' works, too.
and not that it's a linguistic mis-use, but i really like when people end a sentence by saying 'and things of that nature.'
that's like the said-out-loud equivalent of my lazy, written 'etc'.
as if to say, 'well, i've run out of things to say, not so much because i can't think of anything else to say, but i'm
just feeling like i should stop talking now.'
ok, please let me know if you have any other suggestions for fake words that we can sneak into the o.e.d.
thanks,
moby
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Transgevity is my word I've been using to suuggest something will have a long lasting effect over different genres and ages. Ex: Moby's music will have a transgevity that Eminem's will not. (lol)
haha
moby ur funny
diana
Transphysical (of Jesus' resurrection body)
Not my own suggestion, but a real suggestion by Bishop Tom Wright (one of the world's top New Testament scholars) to do with Jesus' resurrection body:
"... The word 'transphysical' seems not to exist, surprisingly enough (one might have thought some enterprising ontologist would have employed it long since), and I proffer it for inclusion between 'transphosphorylation' and 'transpicuous' in the Oxford English Dictionary [Its absence may of course be explained by the curiously Levitical taboo against mixing Latin and Greek roots]. The 'trans' is intended as a shortening of 'transformed'. 'Transphysical' is not meant to describe in detail what sort of a body it was that the early Christians supposed Jesus already had, and believed that they themselves would eventually have. Nor indeed does it claim to explain how such a thing can come to be. It merely, but I hope usefully, puts a label on the demonstrable fact that the early Christians envisaged a body which was still robustly physical but also significantly different from the present one. If anything - since the main difference they seem to have envisaged is that the new body will not be corruptable - we might say not that it will be *less* physical, as though it were some kind of ghost or apparition, but more. 'Not unclothed, but more fully clothed.' As historians we may have difficulty understanding such a thing. But, equally as historians, we should not hold back from affirming that that is what the early Christians were talking about. They were not talking about a non-bodily, 'spiritual' survival. Had they wanted to do so, they had plenty of other language available to them, as indeed we do today. We should not project on to others the limitations of our own imagination."
(From "The Resurrection of the Son of God", pp477-78)
The word is also referenced at:
www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Old_Arguments.htm
and
www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Early_Traditions.htm
I like to use shoe-icide.
I like to use shoe-icide. It's the act of sacraficing your feet for really great shoes.
Hey Moby!!
The only word I have at this moment is YALL..since, being from KY, it is encoded in my DNA. It is a forever word..a TRUE word..(haha) To share your musings..and more..is very interesting. This is the strangest trip I have ever been on. Til later on..moi
Hey Moby!!
The only word I have at this moment is YALL..since, being from KY, it is encoded in my DNA. It is a forever word..a TRUE word..(haha) To share your musings..and more..is very interesting. This is the strangest trip I have ever been on. Til later on..moi
Some unactual words.
My contribution of words to stand the test of time :P
Untullectual: Could probably be used to point out flaws with an other persons capacity for.. well.. knowledge. But come to think of it "Un" would actually mean that something used to be, but is no longer. So the use of this word could be: I was quite intellectual in school, but years of watching fox news on the telly, wearing a tank top, drinking beer and caring about noting but football, has left me an untullectual.
I think we might find good use for this word in this day and age :p
Nihifile: To not be attracted to anyone. Sad if its true :P
Prignorant: To be judged ignorant in advance. Or the target for assumptions that a person is ignorant before you even talk to him/her. For reasons like, clothing, hairstyle and general prejudice.
I love the phrase "But in all fairness". Usually what comes after this phrase is what the person really means, and is often wildly inconsistent with what was said before, which was really just to soften the blow. For instance if someone say: "Its nice of you to give humanitarian aid, but in all fairness, they will just use the money on drugs and guns!". Then i don`t think you can emphasize on the first part of that sentence for finding the true opinion that person has :P A lovely tool for trying to appear more civilized then you really are.
And things of that nature :P
Words
Legalitical - like..I can't read this document, it's too legalitical - too full of legal jargon normal people can't read
Snice - combo of that's nice
Angrulated - the act of being angry. he did this and it angrulated me.
new words
i like "gription", as in, "these shoes have really good gription." tho i can't claim it as my own (my husband invented it as a child).
also, to avoid getting in trouble for swearing as a child, my brother used to say "doomit" instead of damnit. we thought it was pretty hilarious at the time.
this sorta reminds me of neologisms.
A Word
My friend and I came up with fux which is a substitute for f@#%ing awesome as in: Moby's new cd fux. It's not very subtle or intelligent sounding, but its good for all of us lazy people out there.
I am trying to see
I am trying to believe
Wouter Schut
Nice braindump :P.
A question my brain now automatically comes up with is: Do you want children?
Hehe.
"A question my brain now automatically comes up with is: Do you want children?"
You offering to him?
;)
~t
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in an interview for the observer magazine here in the UK, Chris Martin used the word ALLTHEISTIC, completely his own work and totally made up, it apparently means you believe in everything.
I quite like that