tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 12 11:35:15 1998
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Re: Unofficial words
>Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 12:30:08 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Eduardo Fonseca" <[email protected]>
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>>Meanwhile, I put onto my wish list, allowing you folks to submit ideas you can
>>construct from pre-existing canon words:
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> So, I guess it could be named:
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> chu'wI'nger or chu'wI'QeD - Neologism :-))
A good example of why you can't blithely say "nger" = "-ism"; a neologism
is no sort of theory nor a science: it is a word. A neologism is a
newly-coined word. Because English -ism is not consistently used to mean
"theory" or "science," that's why.
~mark