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  • Go Swannies
    Veterans List
    • Sep 2003
    • 5697

    #31
    Originally posted by BSA5
    Summated is definitely a word, although its usage in that context is perhaps a little odd.
    It's the wordification of a concept but it's not a word.

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    • BSA5
      Senior Player
      • Feb 2008
      • 2522

      #32
      Originally posted by Go Swannies
      It's the wordification of a concept but it's not a word.
      No, it's definitely a word. Google it if you want.
      Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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      • Go Swannies
        Veterans List
        • Sep 2003
        • 5697

        #33
        Originally posted by BSA5
        No, it's definitely a word. Google it if you want.
        Coolarama! I googles wordification and found 6000 entries.

        On the other hand summated ain't even recognised by the New Oxford American Dictionary and that's good enough for me. I've been rightified to the max.

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        • DeadlyAkkuret
          Veterans List
          • Oct 2006
          • 4547

          #34
          Originally posted by Big Al
          Summated wasn't corrected by my iPhone so it's most definitely a worm.
          It could just be because it's really late here, but that made me laugh out loud.

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          • Lucky Knickers
            Fandom of Fabulousness
            • Oct 2003
            • 4220

            #35
            Shamankie

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            • Bloody Hell
              Senior Player
              • Oct 2006
              • 3085

              #36
              Originally posted by wolftone57
              In the last twenty years there seems to have been a flourish of new words being invented by journalists and writers or indeed by the general public as slang
              So the English language was completely static prior to 1990?

              I think it much more likely that since the advent of the www, these things happen much quicker being exposed to a large portion of the community at one time, rather than piece meal that was previously the case.
              The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.

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              • Big Al
                Veterans List
                • Feb 2005
                • 7007

                #37
                Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
                Shamankie
                Definition: A handkerchief that isn't real.
                ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

                Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN

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                • royboy42
                  Senior Player
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 2078

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Dosser
                  My pet hate used to be the commentators describing a 'transference' of play instead of 'transferral' and I used to roll my eyes and bemoan the education of the average football commentator. Until I looked it up and discovered that it was actually a word and that it probably described the passage of play better.

                  Boy, did I feel goosified.
                  What about the 'secondary' bounce when the first centre bounce doesn't result in a clearance??

                  Maybe the second bounce, but 'secondary' doesn't even make sense!

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                  • supersall
                    On the Rookie List
                    • May 2008
                    • 122

                    #39
                    Am just trying to imagine any other clubs' fan forum running to 4 pages on the vagaries of the English language. You guys make me so proud!

                    p.s apostrophe man, please stay away from my post
                    I'm not arrogant, I'm right

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                    • BSA5
                      Senior Player
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 2522

                      #40
                      Originally posted by Go Swannies
                      Coolarama! I googles wordification and found 6000 entries.

                      On the other hand summated ain't even recognised by the New Oxford American Dictionary and that's good enough for me. I've been rightified to the max.
                      Well Merriam-Webster, Princeton and Scrabble recognise it, not to mention its common usage in mathematical, statistical and scientific contexts. While it's usage in the context of the OP is probably stretching it, it is most certainly a word.
                      Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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                      • ShockOfHair
                        One Man Out
                        • Dec 2007
                        • 3668

                        #41
                        Not as impressive as the Collingwood supporters who have a regular haiku competition, or so it is said.

                        I know it sounds as plausible as a Jamaican bobsled team. But just in case here's my Magpie haiku:

                        A tiny flutter
                        A Shaw thing
                        Back in eight weeks
                        The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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                        • Dosser
                          Just wild about Harry
                          • Mar 2011
                          • 1833

                          #42
                          Originally posted by ShockOfHair
                          Not as impressive as the Collingwood supporters who have a regular haiku competition, or so it is said.

                          I know it sounds as plausible as a Jamaican bobsled team. But just in case here's my Magpie haiku:

                          A tiny flutter
                          A Shaw thing
                          Back in eight weeks
                          Wow - you are a regular Japanese Shakespeare!

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                          • Kirkari
                            On the Rookie List
                            • Aug 2009
                            • 1036

                            #43
                            Originally posted by Go Swannies
                            Geez, Al I need to visit your pub. I can find people to talk about the proliferation of cinnamon but I've never found anyone to discuss the transubstantiation of passive-aggressive disorder revealed, with some specificity, by the British constitution - and it's one of my favourite topics. Perhaps that's why I've never needed to deliver 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 from Group 3 but I get a chance to say 5 all the time, drunk and sober.
                            Superman still wears Brett Kirk Pyjamas

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                            • Kirkari
                              On the Rookie List
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 1036

                              #44
                              Originally posted by BSA5
                              Well Merriam-Webster, Princeton and Scrabble recognise it, not to mention its common usage in mathematical, statistical and scientific contexts. While it's usage in the context of the OP is probably stretching it, it is most certainly a word.
                              Yes, but as I said on page 1 of this thread, the Americans are not picky about their "English" dictionaries.

                              And that would be common "use", not "usage". ;-) ("Usage in the context" is correct, though. Your usage I mean, not the journo's, since the word doesn't exist. Clear as mud?)
                              Superman still wears Brett Kirk Pyjamas

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                              • Kirkari
                                On the Rookie List
                                • Aug 2009
                                • 1036

                                #45
                                Originally posted by liz
                                One of the beauties of language is that it is an organic creation, and that new words can be, and are, created all the time. Sometimes they are used as a one-off, other times they become part of the fabric of the language by repeated use and eventually become accepted as a "real word". I love creating non-words by combining two existing "real words". If it is obvious what a created word means, I don't see there is an issue with this. It just adds more colour and playfulness to language.

                                The test here should surely be whether it was understood what was meant by using this "non-word" "summated". I think most would say it was understood. Hence I don't see there is an issue with it.
                                I half agree - new words that add something to the language are great. Words that are essentially just malapropisms (in itself a great example of the invented words that are awesome) minus the humour, are friggin' annoying. Laziness and ignorance are not the same as creativity and invention. IMO.
                                Superman still wears Brett Kirk Pyjamas

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