Writers Make Up Words
Verbotomy! "Every day we create a new definition and matching cartoon. Your challenge is to create a word -- a verboticism -- that matches the definition. After you create your verboticism, you can vote for other authors's [sic] words to help select the winning verboticism for the definition."When I visited, the word was:
EARJACULATEHmm. Yes, well this is a game, but I find it amusing to just drop in every once in a while to read the funny definitions for made up words that sound like authentic English ones.
DEFINITION: adj., Pertaining to the sound quality emanating from someone else's earbuds. n., Second-hand sound (i.e. previously heard), which has escaped from a headphone or other personal listening device.
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 10:14 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Geo, everytime I hear variants on this theme, I am reminded of Douglas Adams "Meaning of Liff" - a book full of invented words.
Actually the words are all real enough (English place names, Liff being one such), but their meanings are all invented. Continuing the British theme, the idea is similar to one of the regular rounds of tyhe BBC's long-running "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".
Regards
Ian
Hi, Ian. Nice to see you here, and thanks for the clue to another Douglas Adams book. I'd not heard of it (or the Beeb show--wonder if it's available online?)
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