Playing with language

[ancientsong]

Languages grow and change all the time.

I heard that ginormous is now in the dictionary. I personally say "confusticated" when I mean confused/frustrated.

What are you favorite clever turns of phrase, words, etc.? Do they exist in popular language or are they your own inventions? Do tell.

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[kugelblitz]

I like the number "grillion" it is just an impossible, funny number.

Re: OK

[kugelblitz]

I also say deframulate and framulate when I am referring to a complex process or series of actions that need to, or have gotten done.

i.e. I need to deframulate the gril.

Re: OK

[ancientsong]

I think I've heard you use framulate before. Excellent word.

[chickenhat]

The container for cat food has it spelled "FUD", and medicating usually happens at feeding time, so I've taken to referring to that particular item getting done (feeding them some soft food and making sure they get their medicine) as "fudicated".

[ancientsong]

I like it! In a similar vein, when we needed to give pills and echnicea to one of our kitties, it became pillinicea (transitive verb. As in, "Did you pillinicea the cat?")

Re: Well...

[ancientsong]

grimclown says grunk or grunky for things being all rhunked up.

I've heard you use some of these in conversation. Yay. We're doing our small part to help evolve the language.

[whimmydiddle]

I had a friend who used to use "twitterpated" to describe a confused state of mind. I have always liked that. I've also heard "flustercated," and I like that too.

[ancientsong]

I've heard twitterpated before. It sounds like a Jane Austen-ism to me for some reason. I can imagine Mrs. Bennett being referred to as twitterpated.

[windravyn]

I have no idea how I ended up reading this thread, but I have to comment. Isn't twitterpated from Disney's Bambi referring to the animals in the spring falling in love and becoming twitterpated?

[ancientsong]

Hi and welcome to the thread.

Yes, I believe twitterpated is from Bambi. :)