Saturday, November 13, 2010
Making Up Words
Who does it? How do you justify it? Do you make up chat words only, or are you willing to toss out queries with questionable terms included? I definitely leave words in my manuscript that are frowned upon by Word and my dictionary. Examples from today: "should've" and "reattuned." Curse you, red squiggles!
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I used the word empath an a noun in my ms. It was used on Star Trek therefore it must exist, right?
Wrong.
I think a day or two ago, I tried to make an "ence" noun from an "ent" adjective. I'd always assumed it existed - much like "persistence" - so when I found out otherwise, I added it to my dictionary; some words should exist, and who am I to deny them?!
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