People make up words all the time and they are accepted into language. 10-15 years ago there was no word “prosumer”. That is a protologism of “Professional” and “Consumer”. Now you see that word everywhere in to describe a certain type of product. I admit my words are silly and will probably catch on, but if people can use words like “woot”, why can’t I use Limeristiku?
Humor/Satire / ProtologoPortmanteau
Neologism – A word or phrase which has recently been coined.
Portmanteau – A new word made by combining two or more words together. Assumes the meaning of all words combined.
Anthropomorphism – giving human-like characteristics to non-human things like animals or inanimate objects.
Protologism – A portmanteau of “prototype” and “neologism”, meaning a newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language. “Protologism” itself is a fairly recent word.
ProtologoPortmanteau – Two words combined together into one and newly coined in the hopes that it will become accepted into language.
Limeristiku – My attempt at a new portmanteau protologism meaning a group of Limericks written together…like Rensaku for Haiku.
Limeristiphobia – The fear of writing limericks.
Limeristiphobiaku – A Limeristiku about the fear of writing Limericks.
Limeristaphobiaphobia – the fear of people who have fear of writing Limericks.
Limeristikuphobophobiaku – A Limeristiku about the fear of people who have fear of writing Limeristiku.
Limeristikuphobiaphobia – the fear of people who have fear of writing Limeristiku.
Neologiku – A Haiku about newly coined words or phrases.
Protologiku – A Haiku about a newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language.
RensakaNeologiku – A group of haiku about newly coined words or phrases.
AnthropomorphaProtologisms – Newly coined words or phrases imbued with human characteristics hoping that you will give them your love and acceptance.
RensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku – A group of haiku about newly coined words or phrases imbued with human characteristics hoping that you will give them your love and acceptance.
MetaRensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku – A haiku about writing about RensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku.
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saveusjeebus reviewed Version 1 -
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I thought it was funny, but of course I am a language fan. instead of variations on the same 4-5 words, i think it would be funnier if you branched out more and used a larger base set. more combinations = more fun
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jebozid reviewed Version 1 -
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It’s fun and brave attempt, I just feel it could have been executed better.
I don’t get the -ku ending, where does that come from?
logos, anthropos, fobia are Greek words, -ism also comes from Greek -ismos, but -ku?? If you took it from Rensaku and Haiku, then you got a nice mess here ;) English, Japanese and Ancient Greek all mashed up in a word.
It IS fun, but sounds too generic.
Protologism is wrongly coined word and should never become a word.
Rupert reviewed Version 1 -
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This is a good stab at the people who are fact-nitpickers. Your amusement at people’s need to categorize written work is well conveyed, albeit I wouldn’t have used a list, I would have done it the old fashioned way, with a diatribe or a rant. I don’t convey the use of made up words, especially in written work, fiction is fiction, but fiction with made up words is a fallacy.
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evath reviewed Version 1 -
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Have you been smoking my pot again?
ARRrrghhh I have to write 25 words.
You HAVE been smoking my pot again…
or you dipped into my LSD.
I am not going to tolerate
any more or less of your
stealing
and
AnthropomorphiNeoPortmanhistamines are already on the market!
yesus… I’m a gonna need a new dicktionairy
shannygoat reviewed Version 1 -
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It’s interesting how language and use of words develop, isn’t it. The only problem with that, is by the time I got to the end and tried to pronounce RensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku and MetaRensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku I found it much easier to just refer to them by their definition.
Very interesting study on the creating something to be uniquely yours. Good luck with trying to get the masses to put it into modern language :-)
Jimmel104 reviewed Version 1 -
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Ok, so here is how I view this. You have entirely too much time on your hands. Judging by your age you must have been born into wealth or your boss doesn’t know you are doing this on the clock.
I was done after the third “Limer…........A….....P….”.
I really think you are playing to a very small audience here. Mensa perhaps and those that play a lot of Scrabble and unemployed linguistics professors.
It is humorous in that I find it so that anyone would do this. I do agree with you, it really isn’t too much heavy lifting though because you don’t really have to try and pronounce these ?words?
faydiablo reviewed Version 1 -
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That was hilarious, I am always being emailed stuff like that (though not as interesting), and I loved MetaRensakaNeologiAnthropomorphaProtologiku (just don’t ask me to say it). It was a little confusing, but fun.
tstone reviewed Version 1 -
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i think this is hilarious. the fact that you have to stop and fumble over the pronunciation makes it even more so. might be publishable along with similar lists/stories, etc…
stephanie482 reviewed Version 1 -
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I don’t care what people say – I loved it!
I read somewhere (maybe on Wikipedia) that the word of the year (the WHOLE year – all of 2007) was “woot”.
Yes. “Woot.” I didn’t bother to read further to see what it meant.
If we can seriously vote a word like woot as word of the whole year, then you are certainly free to make up your own words and definitions – after all, everyone else is doing it!
I loved your words, and the definitions to the words make sense – which is more than I can say for the new “definitions” to words that congress is coming out with. They seem to have a definition of war that we’ve never heard before…
Keep it up – I love your style.
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