As a kid I would say I like my shirt “tucked out” rather than “untucked”.
I could see the difference, but the symmetry with “tucked in” just appealed to me.
I also always use the word cornputer. Just sounds better than computer, although the look alike.
When I’m a great man, perhaps king, these usages will flourish, and be emblazoned over the gates of power.
What do you bring to the next séance with Webster’s ghost?
(He coined more words than any other modern man)(Shakespeare didn’t speak our language, did he?)
Well, back ina gal a…no no no, but it was quite a few years ago, my gaming group made up two expressions we sometime hear today; “he’s HISTORY” and “I’m in deep Kim-chee”. I also believe I made up the word “presentism”, the act of judging heroes & great men of the past, by Todays standards.
I was rping one day (heck I rp every day…;)) but someone came in and her c was dressed in blue jeans and a sweatshirt everyone else was dressed in armor or leather or other stuff and she said something ooc about not being normal and I replied that Normalcy is Relative and it hit me how true that is.
A crazy person is considered crazy because they act different from us… well if everyone was crazy then the way we consider normal now would be considered crazy. Its all a matter of view and who you surround yourself with.
I didn’t actually coin these - my Sister used “eitherbody” by accident, but I picked it up and made it popular. Their usage is obvious enough: use in place of “everybody” and “nobody” when talking about only two people. I’m sure I have some better ones, but I can’t think of them right now.
If there ever is a need for the term, I coined the word “transphylite” for someone who wants to undergo a species change operation in a story of mine. If the OED ever adds the term, I’ll be cited.
When I was in high school a friend and I were watching a video of The World According to Garp and there is a scene where Garp and his mother are bringing in groceries and Garp is so upset that he slams a bag down on the counter so hard it rips. My friend Ellen blurted out “Man, that really rips my bag!” and that was our phrase for intense anger for years, to this very day, even.
I’ve thought up two phrases that I believe are original, let me know if you’ve heard them before. They are:
“With the truth as your enemy, what hope can there be?”
and as a metaphor for death, “To turn and face the greater mind”. I was thinking of putting these lines into my songs but I don’t want to plagerize anyone.
Detourees are the people who dodge the orange cones.
Detournouts are the wide spots where you wait for the opposite cars to pass by before you can procede.
Detournabouts are where we send people back because it’s going to be blocked for hours while we unstuck a truck.
Long, long ago, I called the dishwasher a “dirtwasher” and the name has stuck in the family. Also we sometimes use the word “fruitile” to describe an effort both futile and fruitless.
And just the other day, I coined the word “fussitudinous,” which of course is a word used to describe something which has the quality of being able to be fussed with. “Fussitudinosity” came shortly thereafter.
A bit of background first: Folks like Einstein are generally referred to as geniuses (or genii, if you know Latin). However, by the standard definition of “genius”, it just means that someone’s in the 98th or 99th percentile-- using the word of Big Al is a major understatement. Now, the term “genius” comes from the ancient Romans, and it refers to a man’s patron spirit, sort of like a guardian angel. Together with the Lares, three gods from the standard pantheon who were seen as representative of a person’s livelihood etc., they consisted of the household gods, or pentates. Since, in the Roman usage, the Lares (singular lars) were more powerful than the Genii, and had universal impact, that’s the term I use for someone who’s smarter than a genius, and whose ideas have had a universal impact.
