Real words in disguise

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:57 pm

Ironical.

It's another way of saying ironic. It just sounds phoney. Isn't that a little....

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:24 pm

Sometimes its hard to tell if its real or not, cause I have a tendency to make up words a lot. Gesticular?

Its pretty easy to make up real sounding words by accident, especially when youre playing one of those games where you try to name every word you can think of that ends with -nation or something like that . . . Ever been really, really bored?

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:30 pm

YES PIP! I'll be exactly that for the next 5 hours!

stagnation, elimination, sensnation....

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:52 pm

Sorry, that should probably be words ending in -ation rather than -nation.

proliferation, reiteration, mastication, flagellation . . . I should probably stop while I still have my sanity. More or less.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:32 am

....but those are all real words....

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:05 am

Headline I spotted in my local paper's health news column yesterday:

"Seizure disorders need not hamper a person's SUCCESSFULNESS"

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:08 am

oh, they obviously meant successocity.

taz · Post by **taz** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:34 am

my favorite non-word...reclusivity...the act of being reclusive...