You type a word, realize it doesn't exist but it looks credible??
By James72
@James72 (26790)
Australia
October 1, 2007 8:27am CST
If so what was the word? Be honest here as I am sure that we are all doing this from time to time. The instant way that we cover ourselves when we do this though is to put the make believe word in inverted commas! Thank God for the inverted commas!!!! Even people that have a very limited vocabulary can sound like an English Professor by the use of inverted commas!
Apparently this makes it all OK!!!! I just did it before so you know what I am talking about! My word was "unproveable"! Sounds like a pretty credible word to me but it doesn't exist in the English vocabulary.... Unproven yes! But not "unproveable"!!
Anyway, I have put it in inverted commas; so as far as I am concerned it now exists! And even better, I can now right click over the underlined word and select - Add to dictionary - and it automatically is bypassed by spell check!!! I am an English word MASTER and you all know it!!!
Forgive me but I am in a very strange mood today and those that have read other posts I have put up will see that this is out of left field for me!
Share your words please and humour me some!
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2 responses
@SViswan (12051)
• India
2 Oct 07
lol...don't worry. Most of the words in the dictionary were created this way by people who made them up..lol
You'll be the creator of the word 'unproveable" and if everyone follows your example...the word would soon appear in the Oxford Dictionary!
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
2 Oct 07
Yes you are 100% right! Words like "Hooligan" for example came about as a proper word included in the dictionary after years of being used as slang or colloquially in Britain to describe soccer thugs...... Even some brands now are included in the dictionary because they are so well known! Thanks for responding.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
2 Oct 07
it is true that each one of us has the right to coin some words of our own. those words which get accepted generally, shall become part of the english language. meaning, the word will consequently appear in the forthcoming versions/editions of the dictionary. anyway, this is true for a language which is termed and accepted to be a living language and, this is where the english language categorically falls into. so let us keep on inventing some new sensible words. hardly will we be getting credit for it, though.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
2 Oct 07
I am a civil engineer. Whenever I make my reports or evaluation of a project, I have always been using the long phrase 'projects encountering so much problems in the field.' Time came when I started getting tired of the phrase and instead embarked on the use of 'problematic projects'. For a while, I thought that the manager will not approve of it yet, nonetheless, i held my ground believing and hoping that it shall get through without much notice as the term is very much understandable. True enough, it seems everyone else liked the idea of using the term. For not long after, I started hearing everyone mouthed about problematic projects being encountered in various areas of the country. Hmmmm, for all we know, the word that we have decided to devise becomes accepted so easily. Since the english language is a living language, all words that gets devised and becomes generally accepted, becomes part of the english language, right?
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
3 Oct 07
Well there you go! You have achieved fame of sorts by standing firm and reinventing phrases that you felt were relevant! And yes, how else has the English language become what it is today without a collective stance of people like yourself..... "Problematic projects" sounds like a perfectly feasible word structure to me! Thanks for responding!
