How fictional words become real
You have my most enthusiastic contrafibularities, sir.
Have a perfectly cromulent afternoon, irregardless of what happens.
I shall.
I've always assumed that the "embiggen" joke was a reference to how Jefferson was mocked by a European critic for coining the word "belittle" in Notes on the State of Virginia.
I never knew about that. Good spot.
ChatGPT proposed this fictional entomology:
cumulus = a heap / fullness
→ cumulāre = to fill up / make complete
→ cumulent = “let them fill/accumulate”
→ cromulent = “full/complete/sufficient” → “okay”
I rather like that.
What is the derived noun? Esquivalier? Esquivaliere? Something else?
I'd like it be a variant of chevalier, a Knight of Negligence.
Esquivalier it is.
You have my most enthusiastic contrafibularities, sir.
Have a perfectly cromulent afternoon, irregardless of what happens.
I shall.
I've always assumed that the "embiggen" joke was a reference to how Jefferson was mocked by a European critic for coining the word "belittle" in Notes on the State of Virginia.
I never knew about that. Good spot.
ChatGPT proposed this fictional entomology:
cumulus = a heap / fullness
→ cumulāre = to fill up / make complete
→ cumulent = “let them fill/accumulate”
→ cromulent = “full/complete/sufficient” → “okay”
I rather like that.
What is the derived noun? Esquivalier? Esquivaliere? Something else?
I'd like it be a variant of chevalier, a Knight of Negligence.
Esquivalier it is.