Sometimes in this blog I have been inclined to use a word that did not exist. For clarification, if you noticed them, they really do not exist.
manipulatism (noun): the practice and philosophy of being manipulative
newfoundly (adverb): in the nature of being newly discovered
But aren't they great? =D
4 comments:
Those look like excellent words. "Manipulatism" could really be a handy word for my vocabulary sometimes. I'll let you know if I get a chance to use it.
I also like "scientism;" (n) the dogma that things provable by science are more important than things known in other ways.
Just today I used a word, "foetally," which I have never seen before. (adv) to do something in a manner like an unborn child would do it. I liked that it kind of sounded like "futilely," also. It worked in both ways for the poem I am working on.
Foetally is quite interesting...
Meh - not so crazy about newfoundly -- reminds me too much of Newfoundland in which case newfoundly would mean something goofy and Newfoundland-like; which isn't your intention. But manipulatism is good.
for Doug P. Baker
LOL at "foetally" and at "a manner like an unborn child would do. . . "
At the very least balance those neologisms with "teenager-without-access-to-contraception-ly" and "happily-married-mother-of-four-with-severe-diabetes-or-lupus-or-other-contraindicating-condition-ly" in this festival of politically motivated terminology designed to subjugate women.
Saying: Hey, guess what, you just innocently made up a fun word, IS PATHETICALLY TRANSPARENT. Your fondness for "manipulativism" fits with your agenda for teenage readers of this blog to live cognitively restricted lives.
Your introduction of "scientism" betrays a scornful dissmisal of that which is empirically testable, in favor of things that people tell you they "just know" because superstition can be useful in an authoritarian society.
This pretense of fun with wordsmithing would be just as heinous, but slightly less ridiculous, if you made an attempt to learn the difference between "like" and "as".
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