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Making Up Fake Words 101

Dokuma

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Welcome to Making up Fake Words 101. Your professors this semester are McSpit and McSpork.

 

We now bring you your course, alread in progress. Note: many :P emoticons have been removed to preserve bandwidth.

 

Dok: Waiting. :P

 

Spitty: 1. Add weird sounds as often as possible. Like roppenhoffleschmooper.

2. Add weird accents and stuff. Like in the German word for a "donkey bridge", Eselbrücke, it has that weird thing over the u.

3. Don't press random keys. McOffenjompenwopper sounds better then alkfjlkasljkf.

 

Dok: That "thing" is called an umlaut. :P

 

Yeah, I knew that. :P

 

Dok: Another tip is to use the same word parts over and over again. These include, but are not limited to....

  • Schmoogle
  • -oogle
  • Schpargel
  • -ffin
  • Gargin
  • -oodle
  • Mc-
  • Warbin
  • -stien
  • -buttons
  • -berry
  • tiddle
  • oesis

When making names, never be afraid to have more than three words. "Sir" and "the third" are always good add-ons. A prime example is "Sir Phinneas Von Winklebottom Zephius III." Works like a charm.

 

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This concludes our lecture. As an assignment this week, we'd like you all to make up your own fake words and hand them in when you comment. Thank you.

 

*schoolbell rings*

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Noda Miki
Don't press random keys. McOffenjompenwopper sounds better then alkfjlkasljkf.

I break that advice and make my own word anyways! :P

Rogtoe von Bivbasket.

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Admittedly, I suppose Spok and Ditty do acquire a seat in the General Counsel of Practitioners of Wordery.

But alas, there is more to literary architecture than sounding like a gurgling Polandian. For example, say you are merely assembling a word out of recognizeable elements that fit, like Britishity or reverberatance or randomdom. Thus create words that ought to be English, but aren't, most convenient for abbreviation or filling in gaps where words won't take the leap off the tip of your tongue.

Then there are words that you may want to be recognized by oneother of your native tongue, but are entirely cudomeated. Take for instance, puofany, the practice of the abstraction of maps, practitiones being puofanists. The "-y" and the "ist" fit logically with the rules and applications we use in English, therefore it's part gibberish but all parts sense, note that gibberish is not the antonym of sense but rather nonsense is, and gibbeerish is nonsense but nonsense is not gibberish, anyway such a word could very well function and behave as an English word, even though it's not in the dictionarical vocabulary.

And then there are the classes of words that rely outside of the language you know, mostly relying on a language you create. This is where imagination comes in. The art of creating a language is not merely its alphabet, rather, all you have created is the script. But a language has function, the way things are negated or the way clauses are displayed, the conjugation due to different uses of a word and the prefixes and suffixes, if said language is even one that utilizes any. In the Leohin language (like ZOMG copyright) certain elements create a system, and within that system I can create abstractions that still have application, like "Ecne" and "Echrein" and "Naie" and "Aaethiel", and those words spelled in English don't do justice to the way they're truly pronounced in the tongue, with a script that a keyboard could never perform.

But I digressionate. This is your blog, and your entry. I don't intend to steal any light. I just happen to make a serious hobby of wordery.

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Noda Miki

Dear Dokuma;

I have no idea what half of these words you make up mean. Please explain them to me. Especially this one; Sir Phinneas Von Winklebottom Zephius III.

Who was he and what did he do with his life? Did he become a famous king/ pirate and move to Antartica to take over the penguins?

-Sincerily, Lewa&Pohatu.

 

 

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