[Vision2020] Ignorami, not ignoramuses

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Trinacriagoddess et. al.

Shakespeare's creation of new words pales in comparison with the modern 
master of language James Joyce, though I do not know for certain of any cases of 
these words being recognized by those who write dictionaries.  Consider these 
quotes from Joyce's mind boggling novel Finnegans Wake, a novel where Joyce 
utilizes 17 different languages.  The whole "novel," if you can call it that in 
any traditional sense, is written in this "made up" language:

End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till 
thousandsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the 
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a 
commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
(628.13 to 3.3) 

and look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped 
and puddenpadded, very like a whale's egg farced with pemmican, as were it 
sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his 
noddle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: 
all those red raddled obeli cayennepeppercast over the text, calling unnecessary 
attention to errors, omissions, repetitions and misalignments:
(120.9-16)  

Yes, if you can make up a new word, and get enough people to use it, it will 
eventually be added to the dictionary.  Go for it!

"Google," though it is a deliberate misspelling of the word for the number 
"Googol," is already recognized as a new verb.  This happened rather quickly, 
just since the introduction of the Internet search engine Google in 1998:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/New-Words/030725-google.htm

google <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">or Google <I 
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">verb [I,T]
to use the Internet search engine Google™ to find information about someone 
or something
Googling <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">noun [U]
Googler <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">noun [C]

‘… soon-to-be parents are Googling potential baby names to ensure their 
future little angel won’t share his with a serial killer. An entrepreneur seeking 
venture capital Googled himself to see if his reputation would pass the due 
diligence process …’
(Dennis McCafferty, USA weekend.com, 28th April 2002)

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V2020 Post by Ted Moffett
    


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