10 whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll
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10 whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll
Our highly networked and complex world has given rise to the need for new, hybrid words. As a result, portmanteaus—a linguistic mash-up of two words that means “a large trunk opening in two equal parts” in French—have become a modern necessity. Portmanteaus are not new; Lewis Carroll popularized the use of the term in his book Through the Looking G
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He invented words as if creating tools for entirely new purposes.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Literature allows us to name the world by giving us new phrases, new characters, new words. Poets like Chaucer and Shakespeare coined hundreds of new words. So many of their phrases are still used in common speech. They named all sorts of things for us. And by using those names, we expand what we can understand about the world.
Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
Charles Dodgson was a successful photographer, mathematician, clergyman and inventor but we know him as Lewis Carroll, the writer of short stories, poems and novels, most famously Alice in Wonderland.
Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
A book where you can enter "sport" and end up with "a diversion of the field" -- this is in fact the opposite of what I'd known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that's finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare.
James Somers • You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
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Helfand compiled a list of commonly bandied-about words and divided them into categories like Hyphenated Mash-ups ( omni-channel, level-setting, business-critical ), Compound Phrases ( email blast, integrated deck, pain point, deep dive ) and Conceptual Hybrids (“shooting” someone an email, “looping” someone in)
Molly Young • Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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The new vocabulary is sometimes called algospeak.
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