Words that don't exist

[Fryk]

My new least favorite is "Oh Em Gee!!!!"

[Nyoibo]

Marvy, Fab, Far out.

[Kalli]

I'm a pretty bad Grammar Nazi, but I have no problem with someone saying "I lol'd so hard at that", because they know what they are saying. It's when someone says something like "irregardless" or something that they THINK means something else that I get annoyed. I don't know why, I think language defensiveness is very irrational.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15664...you-think.html - one of my favourite cracked articles.

[Fryk]

Marvy, Fab, Far out.

HUZZAH! Someone caught it! Nyoibo wins 5 internets!

[drunkenwildmage]

Oh sweet, chainsaw-juggling Tchernabog I hate crap like that!!! The one that used to really drive me up a wall was how people living around New Orleans used to pronounce "mayonnaise".

Mai-nezzz. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Even if you're trying to be pseudo-french, there'd be an 'o' in there.

Along The Same Lines..I HATE people that pronounce Miracle Whip ...'Mayonnaise'..

[Fryk]

Along The Same Lines..I HATE people that pronounce Miracle Whip ...'Mayonnaise'..

Know what's really funny about that? My wife's family does the complete opposite... all mayo is Miracle Whip!

[jackfaire]

Know what's really funny about that? My wife's family does the complete opposite... all mayo is Miracle Whip!

What's funny is that little extra kick in Miracle Whip that they advertise so heavily is precisely why I don't like it.

[KabeRinnaul]

What's funny is that little extra kick in Miracle Whip that they advertise so heavily is precisely why I don't like it.

There are several deli workers at my store who are no longer allowed to touch my sandwiches, precisely because they don't understand that Mayo and Miracle Whip are two very different things. And that when I say mayonnaise, that's what I mean.

[jackfaire]

Which brings us to tonight's word: copywright

Anywhoo (there's one I use all the time), there's no greater a non-word used as a word in all of history than lol.

When someone nearby utters the phrase "I lolled so hard at that"... I want to stab them in the soul...

OH god yes and save the special stabbitys for the people that say ROFL in real life. I mean seriously.

[blas87]

I do it occasionally to mock others, but the regional people around here who say "taters" instead of "potatoes" and other stuff like "Yous two" instead of "You two"...

I hate living where Larry the Cable Guy and the way he talks (and acts) is considered "cool".

[Boozy]

I love made-up words. Some will stick around, and some won't, but I don't see why we shouldn't give them a shot. We have so many new things in the world, just in the past 20 years. Why not expand the language to better describe everything we experience?

For example, "truthiness" is a marvelous word, and it fills a niche. There's no other way of saying what that word means.

[jackfaire]

I love made-up words. Some will stick around, and some won't, but I don't see why we shouldn't give them a shot. We have so many new things in the world, just in the past 20 years. Why not expand the language to better describe everything we experience?

For example, "truthiness" is a marvelous word, and it fills a niche. There's no other way of saying what that word means.

My main issue with Electronical is that it is the equivilant of saying I want to buy a GameBox, Playcube, or XStation.

It's taking two real words and mashing them into one made up word.

[linguist]

My main issue with Electronical is that it is the equivilant of saying I want to buy a GameBox, Playcube, or XStation.

It's taking two real words and mashing them into one made up word.

a lot of words start out that way. there's no end to the amount of words lewis carrol added to the language in alice's adventures in wonderland, chortle (chuckle + snort) probably being my favorite.

telephone and television are mash-up words too, and not even correctly put together, strictly speaking, as the two parts of each word come from separate languages.

[Slytovhand]

I love made-up words. Some will stick around, and some won't, but I don't see why we shouldn't give them a shot. We have so many new things in the world, just in the past 20 years. Why not expand the language to better describe everything we experience?

For example, "truthiness" is a marvelous word, and it fills a niche. There's no other way of saying what that word means.

While this may certainly be true, the problem I think that is being described is when people don't even know that they're using a wrong word, and that they think it is the right one - to the point that other people start to think that it's a real word. They haven't 'learnt' it anywhere, they've just made it up, because they think it's correct...

[KabeRinnaul]

While this may certainly be true, the problem I think that is being described is when people don't even know that they're using a wrong word, and that they think it is the right one - to the point that other people start to think that it's a real word. They haven't 'learnt' it anywhere, they've just made it up, because they think it's correct...

I think you actually just gave a very good description of how languages develop and change over time.