I know some of you have invented your own languages (which I think it is great! I wish I had the attention span to do such a thing).
But have any of you invented a word that has got into common usage umong friends and so on.
One word I'm pretty sure I invented is 'Trumour'. A rumour you know is true, but there isn't enough evidence for it to be a fact.
I come up with strange words by add prefixes to them, for example, unblank, nonnefarous, omnistupid.
"Schnoosity" - cat.
"Deeb" - silly foolish person
'Ked - as above.
'Ker - as above.
"Flufts" - fluffy tufts.
"Poft" - plump and soft.
"Croft" - cuddly, round and soft.
Most of mine happen when I get confused between languages...
escargol = snail (spanish + french)
escargooooooooooooooool = snail that loves fútbol
or
Guardas-uñas-dientes for guadañadoras (claws, I think).
My husband has more invented words because he is just now working on becoming bilingual. So he will invent words in English when he needs to. Sometimes they work.
Where he's from, they feel that American English words often have unneccesary syllables added to the end, so a joke in Bogotá was to put "-ation" on the end of any Spanish noun to make the English one.
So you get things like "tijeration" = scissors, which seems totally random if you don't know Spanish and that joke.
Also, because they have almost no seasons where he's from, he is intrigued by the concept (and the practice) of seasons. He names the extra changes inside of our seasons here in his own way: Hot Summer, Cold Summer, Cold Green Fall (a favorite), Warm Fall (what we would call Indian Summer), etc...
You may have gathered that he's surreally poetic, in the most playful sense. He even makes up composite romantic words like "gluzzos", which is sort of like hugs + kisses, but nicer.
"fuzzled" - fuzzy and nuzzled.
I have a very peculiar way of communicating in general, my verbal language sucks, people tell me I talk like im retarded. When I talk since I cant get ideas out easily I use extremly animated facial expressions and gestures, if i didnt no one would know what i was talking about. Also I use alot of inflection for questions, and I dont use pronouns for myself, and rarley for other people. And I find myslef having to repeat almost everything!
also when I say words I use a W sound for L, suchs "wittle" for "little" or "wissa" for "allissa" and "wiz" for "liz" and I use a UH sound for ER, such as "ambuh" for "amber" And I do some other things I cant think of right now, but what scares me is that my language has deterioated ALOT since even last year.
Oh yeah I also usually only use the present tense and rarly use ING.
example of how I speak:
"yestuhday i run soccer practice" " I wear this shurt"
"ambuh how you do this?" "wiz, i go wibrary and i check out book and come alla way back, i so annoy." "GOD! such pain in butt!" The list goes on, and note that im in 10th grade, not preschool. But my spoken language was almost normal last year, but im the only one that really notices., some of my friends noticed too.
I had 2 words I made up: pooshy and blimpy
pooshy is something round and squishy, such as a nerf ball
blimpy is something round, hard, and smooth, such as a dome shaped button.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, i use "suis"(like the french verb) I use suis to answer yes or no questions or for calling for the ball in soccer:
example: "are you going to that party" "suis.." *high usage of inflection to show mood*
*calling for someone to pass it to me* "SUIS-SUIS!!!!!!!"
My language arts class last year came up with a word to describe Macbeth at the begining of "Macbeth". It is a combonation of Wuss, Woman and Whimp. Whump!!
SoccerFreak, I was talking with someone in a chat who has passed thru a lot of changes in her capacities neurological as well as physical, and she said in the time of adolescence she noticed that her brain went through a big change (like a rearrangement) of skills, and sort of... Many things that she could do, she lost, and things she could never do, she suddenly was able to do. Like things that were percolating in her mind, she understood them some years after she "learned" them.
I just mean to tell you that apparently this sort of "rearrangement" happens. So maybe that's what you are getting with language. And maybe when all the changing is over, something useful will come out of it.
I on the other hand am wondering if my brain ever changed from child brain to adult brain. However, I suppose if it hasn't at 33 it may never. On the other hand, you never know.
my brain has changed alot, in elementary I was very AS like, then when i enter middle school it was like BAM i acted normal.
I think it mught be brain damage, because it was very drastic. I have simple partial seizures and convulsive syncope, which means I have seizures because when i stand up blood and oxygen doesnt reach my brain quickly enough. It looks like a grandmal seizure. And i've had this all my life at at least one everysingle day, and i always had what people would call "problems" these problems started when I had "staring spells" when I was two. And when I was 4 the seizures started. And last year the simple partial seizures and jerks started.
This other person is epileptic along with being autistic, also.
So ... I donno if that has any bearing the whole thing, but you would think it might.
meow-mow
I invented it, I am the master of all autistic community memes (especially in the cute department).
Meow-mow! I invented that word! I use it to say hello to my cats.
I wish I'd thought of a word to get someone to pass me the ball. Shouting "Oi! you give us the f-in' ball!" or "here I'm open!" never seemed to work.
Pac-- a quarter, ever since the early eighties, when I spent every one I got on Pac-man
I think I have heard of that one before. I means staring at something. I have heard people say 'stop gauking' when they want you to stop staring.
Accidentally (or maybe not) "gucken" is german (familiar) for "to look, to stare"