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Jabberwocky— a nonsense poem from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass using whimsical language & idiosyncratic phrasing such as:
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled this his joy.
Some of these fake/nonce words developed real meanings: chortle, galumph (walk clumsily), vorpal (sharp), slithy (lithe & slimy) & Jabberwocky (imitative gibberish)
— Dec 05, 2023 04:45PM
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled this his joy.
Some of these fake/nonce words developed real meanings: chortle, galumph (walk clumsily), vorpal (sharp), slithy (lithe & slimy) & Jabberwocky (imitative gibberish)
jedioffsidetrap
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Nonce word— a scrap of nonsense created for a specific instance than discarded
Steve Miller’s “pompatus of love”
a fine case study of nonces is “grok” which was originally a Martian word in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land but wa co-opted as a bit of tech speak to mean “to understand thoroughly.” Grok started as a nonce but matriculated to the dictionary. Pompatus not b/c definitionless
— Dec 05, 2023 04:38PM
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Steve Miller’s “pompatus of love”
a fine case study of nonces is “grok” which was originally a Martian word in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land but wa co-opted as a bit of tech speak to mean “to understand thoroughly.” Grok started as a nonce but matriculated to the dictionary. Pompatus not b/c definitionless
