Create your own neoliogisms

Not really to do with pedantry but I'm sure other language- obsessives will enjoy this - http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/jan/31/mind-your-langua....

So go on, what do you think we need a new word for?

The one that comes to mind at once is Fremdwortrechtschreibfehlerleiden (pain caused by mis-spellings of foreign words).

The Grauniad has excelled itself by getting almost every German word in that article wrong. But it is rather fitting that the paper that brought us Edward Snowden should turn Hochkommakrankheit ("high-comma", i.e. apostrophe, sickness) into Horchkommakrankheit, which can only mean a pathological conviction that punctuation marks are eavesdropping on us!

edited at the request of the NSA to add a Horchkomma

Post it in the Language Group.

#2 I don't pretend to remember any of my Grammar school German spelling but in that case it's quite appropriate that I misspelled 'neologisms' in the title. Now I'm going to pretend I did it on purpose.

#3 This is a language group.

#4

I knew you were pretending.

4> I misspelled 'neologisms' in the title. Now I'm going to pretend I did it on purpose.

There is already a word for this. "Thorniology" meaning "word-botching". ;)

I have always been troubled with Donaldkacsászás.

>7 Novak: I'd always had that as 'orthinology'.

#9 Is that when you use the wrong bird name?

>2 thorold: Thank you, Thorold; I'm so happy to have found a word for my affliction!

>10 pgmcc: No, it's as Novak says, it's word botching.

I have to give credit to Humphrey Lyttelton for that. He recalled that during an interview, the interviewer said something like, "I hear that you are a keen orthi-, orthinol-, orthinologist". It was only while driving home much later that Humph realised that he should have answered, "No, more of a word botcher".

4 -- Not really. It's for pedants. I'm not a pedant. But I am interested in language. The English language, I should add.

>15 wossname: It is for pedants' what?

Yes, Pedant's comments

I see mind games.

>19 wossname:
There seem to be two schools of thought on that one, if Google is to be believed: anti-onomatopoeia and unomatopoeia. The latter doesn't make etymological sense, but it's the wittier of the two.

>19 wossname: It's bashful. :D

For some delightful neologisms, try Sniglets!

Or even pedants' comments, Novak?

23> ginpit

Or so I was taught back in the dark ages before everyone had access to word processors to write their book reports and papers.

or go hacking.

"word processor" always struck me as a strange name. Apparently it's a device where words go in, but what comes out?

To be safe, I stick with text editors.

I've known a few text editors who where hot dates. Oh, wait...make that copy editors.

"word processor" always struck me as a strange name. Apparently it's a device where words go in, but what comes out?

Depends whether you have it set to mix or puree.