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In that sense it shares a common mission with lingofactory: to seed the world with madeupical words.
We Are Not Alone 2007
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Labels: frostitute, lingofactory, madeupical, neologism posted by John McGrath @ 4: 46 PM 1 Comments
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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In that sense it shares a common mission with lingofactory: to seed the world with madeupical words.
We Are Not Alone 2007
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Labels: frostitute, lingofactory, madeupical, neologism posted by John McGrath @ 4: 46 PM
We Are Not Alone 2007
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Labels: frostitute, lingofactory, madeupical, neologism posted by John McGrath @ 4: 46 PM
We Are Not Alone 2007
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In that sense it shares a common mission with lingofactory: to seed the world with madeupical words.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Have you also joined the cult of ninja madeupical etymologists and/or piratical madeupical etymologists?
phosphenes 2009
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I am shocked, shocked, shocked, I tell you, to think that anyone might believe for an instant that I was guilty of contributing madeupical facts or scientifically implausible theories to Wordie.
phosphenes 2009
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In that sense it shares a common mission with lingofactory: to seed the world with madeupical words.
We Are Not Alone 2007
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I am shocked, shocked, shocked, I tell you, to think that anyone might believe for an instant that I was guilty of contributing madeupical facts or scientifically implausible theories to Wordie.
Madeupical: Avauntular seanahan 2007
uselessness commented on the word madeupical
Because we've all been saying this word, and nobody had it listed. It's totally real, by the way.
September 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Of course it's real! After all, I made it up, and I'm real! Case closed.
Besides, no one ever puts madeupical words on Wordie. Ever.
September 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Archive note: the very first mention of madeupical is at nounal. So in ages hence, all will see Wordie brilliance.
October 16, 2007
rocksinmypockets commented on the word madeupical
I just learned the word sniglet, which is a synonym for madeupical, and equally fun to say.
October 26, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word madeupical
I think sniglets were "invented" (maybe not) by Rich Hall, a 1980s-era comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live. He put out a bunch of books of sniglets and stuff. Some of my favorites (that I still remember) were:
motspur--the one wheel on a shopping cart that won't go the right way
essoasso--a person who avoids a red light by cutting through a corner gas station
blurfle--to be speaking loudly over music, as at a dance club, only to have the music stop suddenly just as you're saying something like "... testicles laminated!"
October 26, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
We need a pronunciation guide: this is my first time looking at this page, and I'd expected the pronunciation to be mad-yuu'pi-cal.
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
But it's a madeupical word, VanishedOne--how can we have a pronunciation guide for a madeupical word? ;-)
November 8, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
Consult the originator?
How can you not have a pronunciation guide for a word? Even if it's 'uncertain', on the model of Cthulhu, that's still information that permits a guide.
November 8, 2007
uselessness commented on the word madeupical
"Made. Up. Ickle." :-P
November 8, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
There we are: it can be done. Cheers. (Though I do like the Hellenic-sounding one.)
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
The originator is me. Uselessness is correct. And I was just joking. See the wink down there? ;-)
And Cthulhu had nothing to do with it; believe me.
November 8, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
Yes, I know you were joking; and I was taking it mock-seriously. Maybe I should use more emoticons, but on this of all sites...
November 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Ah, mock-seriously, you say! Now I understand. Apologies if I came off sounding snippy. :-)
November 9, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
Don't worry about it; misunderstandings just happen sometimes.
November 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word madeupical
Particularly hilarious ones.
November 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Got that right. :-)
November 9, 2007
yarb commented on the word madeupical
The other night I dreamt I was reading an obscure novel from nineteen-o-something. In a footnote of this novel, or it might have been non-fiction a la William James, I saw the word "madeupickal", and thought "a-ha! This will be a killer citation!" Then I woke up.
November 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word madeupical
Haha! I actually got the opportunity to use madeupical in a business meeting yesterday... unfortunately my coworkers didn't exactly get the reference. :-P
November 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Ah, what do they know, uselessness? ;-> Yarb, I can't believe you dreamed about madeupickal in its variant 19th-century spelling! You must be wordieing too hard.
November 24, 2007
rolig commented on the word madeupical
The role of madeupical words in the quality of fiction writing was recently the subject of an xkcd comic panel (be sure not to miss the mouse rollover text). This panel was discussed today on the linguistics blog Language Log.
October 10, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
This word is Wordie's frindle.
November 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
*bows*
November 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word madeupical
I would just like to remind everyone that, before there was madeupical, there was madeupatory.
As the conversation for the ages below will corroborate. Ahh, but I was just a Wordie neophyte then:
chicken catch-a-tory
I miss uselessness.
December 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
That's true, sionnach. Madeupatory came first, and it was made up right here (see comments), whereas madeupical was coined at nounal.
Thank you for remembering. I do miss the verbal sparring with The Uselessness. :-)
January 1, 2009
frindley commented on the word madeupical
Ok, confession time. Who's been googling:
madeupical -site:wordie.org
?
Very curious!
June 4, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
Wow! You can use it to track Wordies' lives outside Wordie!
June 4, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word madeupical
Uav! Actually, this sentence popped out at me: "madeupical etymology isn't defined yet."
*rubs hands in anticipation*
June 5, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Uav! Who knew?
June 5, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word madeupical
There's a list I found once which offered to help make up words for concepts that we don't know or have the name of. I can't find it now. Can anyone help? Or I could just describe my problem here, I guess...
June 11, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
Gangerh's lost for word.
June 11, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word madeupical
Thanks! Although, now that I've thought about how I wanted to pose the question for a while, I figured out pretty much all I wanted was overstatement. Psh.
June 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Invented on the fly here: http://wordie.org/words/nounal. Also see "madeupatory" on Wordie.
September 10, 2009
john commented on the word madeupical
Here it is on Wordnik. I like that Wordnik's giant computer brain suggests "cromulent" as a related word.
September 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
John, I added an etymology for madeupical yesterday. Actually, I just directed everyone to Wordie's nounal page where it first occurred, but same difference. ;-)
September 11, 2009
johntest commented on the word madeupical
Well hello, old friend. My first comment on nuevo Wordnik.
October 16, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
Wait a moment, John... why doesn't this comment appear on Wordie as well? And where are Wordie comments? This could be a mess, if we use both websites for a while and comments are mixed when the merging is complete...
October 16, 2009
john commented on the word madeupical
Who the hell is the 'johntest' guy? I don't trust him. Might be madeupical.
October 16, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
How can one be the johntest guy? Nobody can possibly be johnter than you.
October 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
That was a very johnty comment, Pro.
October 18, 2009
dontcry commented on the word madeupical
Um... it's really white in here...
October 19, 2009
dontcry commented on the word madeupical
*puts shades on*
October 19, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word madeupical
Important question: what constitutes a legitimate word, especially in comparison with a 'madeupical' one?
November 24, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
I don't know about Wordnik, but the line was mighty blurry on Wordie. ;-)
November 25, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word madeupical
madeupical words ARE legitimate!
November 25, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word madeupical
That's what I was hoping to hear! ;-)
Unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the world necessarily agrees.
November 25, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
That's good then.
November 25, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
Surely every word was once ante-madeupical?
November 25, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word madeupical
Exactly my point. Somewhere along the line, someone has to make up the word.
(Please don't confuse a word with a random bunch of letters that sound nice together stuck onto a meaning. I can't accept that, and I think I'm justified. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
November 25, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word madeupical
A while ago I saw a video on the internet of Erin McKean talking about lexicography. It pissed me off for some reason I can't remember, and now all I do remember is that she said that loving a word makes it real, which I whole-heartedly agree with, with the caveat that love should not be applied mindlessly, but only to such words as are inherently lovable. (Shoot me, I'm a Platonist in a post-modern world...)
November 25, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
I would say a word is a word if it is mutually understood by the communicator and the communicatee.
November 25, 2009
Telofy commented on the word madeupical
Then books written in a language I don’t understand wouldn’t contain any words when I “read” them. Or would I then just not qualify as communicatee? In that case, if a sentence in such a language were embedded in an English text, for example to show all the pretty characters, I would cease to be communicatee for a second while I read that sentence? That strikes me as rather unintuitive . . .
I’d rather say that a word becomes a word for someone when (s)he either associates some concept with its form or comes to believe that someone else might do so.
“Madeupical” then could just mean that someone wants to point out that the originator of the word is a specific person and moreover a person that is felt to be close to some degree, be it temporally, socially or in some other way.
November 25, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
OK,then. My mistake.
I would say a word is a word if it is mutually understood by a communicator and a communicatee.
November 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?)
November 25, 2009
Telofy commented on the word madeupical
So every combination of letters would constitute a word. I’m wondering if such a definition is not too broad to be useful, but I kind of like it.
November 26, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
OK.
I would say a word is a word if the sense or nonsense of it is understood by a communicator and/or a communicatee and/or a sentient being that is incommunicado.
November 26, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
I'd just like to thank PossibleUnderscore for posting this discussion on the madeupical page. :-)
November 26, 2009
sionnach commented on the word madeupical
But 'runcible' is not sheer nonsense. Witness:
runcible fork
runcible spoon
You say spork, I say runcible spoon.
November 26, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word madeupical
I can accept gangerh's last comment. That's reasonable, but for words that are used more widely, I think, should have some sort of etymology or root.
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals.
November 26, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word madeupical
I would note that gangerh's definition does not make something a good word. Words can be made up and mutually understood, but linguistically some neologisms are just yucky.
November 26, 2009
sionnach commented on the word madeupical
"a sentient being that is incommunicado"
Would an example of this be a "dog lying doggo"?
November 26, 2009
gangerh commented on the word madeupical
But yuckty is in the ear of the beyucker and/or beyuckee.
November 26, 2009
mollusque commented on the word madeupical
This reminds me of arguments about what is a species. No definition of "species" works in all situations, and the same is true of "word". OED2 says about species, "The exact definition of a species, and the criteria by which species are to be distinguished (esp. in relation to genera or varieties), have been the subject of much discussion."
Some of the hallmarks of words are that they are pronounceable, used for open communication, have inferable meanings, and are related to other words (have derivations).
I don't think every combination of letters can be considered a word. "Madeupical" meets all four of the criteria above; "dhn" mets none of them. The meaning of madeupical, might be inferred by a native speaker of English even without a context, even though it is not a standard formation. The meaning of dhn cannot be determined without a context. It might be an acronym, or it might be an arbitrary string of characters that conveys meaning only as a code.
November 26, 2009
gego commented on the word madeupical
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November 28, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word madeupical
Spam Cleanse
The achy spammy products are plenty on Wordnik and there are many who think achy spammers resemble colon cleansers, but they deserve much worse than that. These kinds of achy spam products will make the site's members irritated.
November 28, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word madeupical
Damn right vo!
And I'm sorry but colon cleanser doesn't sound overly appealing either.
November 29, 2009
dontcry commented on the word madeupical
*freep*
November 29, 2009
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
Gego needs to gego away.
December 1, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word madeupical
Here's a slightly creepy article about a collection of unintentional Freudian slips madeupicalled by therapy clients.
January 15, 2010
janejetson commented on the word madeupical
Madeupicals are an inventure of frolicking brainscapes. *3*
February 27, 2010
sionnach commented on the word madeupical
In a rare misstep by the delightful Stephen Fry, he fails to use this word when he most needed it, at the 9:43 mark in this video
October 19, 2011
reesetee commented on the word madeupical
ruzuzu! You adopted madeupical! Bless you!
*returns to the great beyond*
January 21, 2016