How to Coin a New Word or Phrase
For Val… LOL, With Apologies to Willie and Julio.
“To all the girls I’ve PEMA’d before
who’ve traveled in and out my door
I dedicate this song, I’m glad you came along
to all the girls I’ve PEMA’d before.”
PEMA – an acronym for Physio-EMotional Attraction, verb – the act or intention to PEMA, replacing the archaic misuse of love/lust.
Recenty, I wrote an article depicting the inconsistancy of the use of the word love. The word is used confusingly for both the emotional and physical and is therefor superfluous. In that article, I determined that the correct description should be Physio-EMotional Attraction, the combining of the emotional state of love and the phsysiological response to lust.
I think the English language needs to tighten up. With the enormous amounts of words in the language, we should never have confusion as to what the writer or speaker means. This is my first step in applying Papaisms to the way we speak and write.
Now, if you feel this is a brazen act of rebellion, perhaps you’re right. The only excuse I have for this is my current exploration into the realm of Flash Writing, courtesy of Guy Hogan. (Sorry Guy!) His repeated teaching on brevity and clarity have me seeking new ways to do both.
So, why don’t we all find easier, more concise ways to say what we mean and mean what we say. Maybe one day, there will be a new and more direct language dictionary for web writers.
Just a thought.
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January 8th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
taking it to the next level i see
January 8th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Nice one
January 8th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
LOL – I thought it sounded better!
January 8th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Well really! Hey works for me. I’ve been accused of using words that aren’t words or at least not in any American Dictionary. Good write and I might just coin a phrase or two myself.
January 8th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Excellent thought! New words are constantly being penned and the dictionaries are constantly being updated. I read a list somewhere of the new words added to a dictionary last year, one of them was “unfriend”, which my spell check has just underlined with red. I guess my computer is behind the times.
As interconnected as the world is getting, I think it is very possible for one person, such as yourself, to coin a word and have it catch on.
In the 70’s, the tv show “Happy Days” turned into a bit of a social experiment. Producer Garry Marshal said that they would introduce an expression, like “sit on it” and suddenly everybody was saying it. Putting a red bandana on Scott Baio’s leg became a fashion accessory overnight. And the episode where Fonzie got a library card, he said that library memberships expanded by 300% that week.
January 8th, 2011 at 11:39 pm
You are so very right but I bet we need a greater circulation to have our force felt world wide.
January 8th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Your right about the use of words and it seems that todays dialect has gotten really laxed.
January 9th, 2011 at 6:44 am
Irregardess I refudiate everything you wrote in this article. I am kidding of course. Whoa, I used 2 words that do not exist….off to the corner I go.
January 12th, 2011 at 11:37 am
You are so right. Guess you are not the only one who’s caught the GUYbug.