I love when people I don’t like accidentally make up words that they THINK are real words, but really aren’t, and then they use them incessantly. It feels like a present. Like everytime they use their made up word, completely serious about it, some sort of Word God out there is invisibly high fiving me, saying, “Oooo - snap!” and making me giggle.
Yesterday I talked on the phone to someone who was telling me about how bad the job market was. I knew after just a few short minutes of talking to this woman that I didn’t like her. Something about her smokey raspy voice and her stories about her mobile home and her mother’s diabetes just made me shudder. So I’m sitting there, listening to this woman drone on about all kinds of things in which I have no interest, when she busts out with, “So yeah - the job market is just DRAMASTICALLY different than it was a few years ago.” I said, “I’m sorry - I missed that last part. What did you say?” (This was me making sure that it wasn’t just a fluke, and that she did indeed think that “dramastically” was a word) And she said, “The job market. It’s so dramastically different.”
High five, Word God. High five!
One time my co-worker friend and I were sitting around wasting time, trying really hard to avoid getting started on a bunch of crapwork that we didn’t want to start. And he said, “We need to stop coprastinating.”
I totally laughed at this, and he did too, because he realized right away it was wrong, but then both of us realized that it’s actually the perfect word for when two people JOINTLY procrastinate together. I will continue to use this made up word forever. And maybe people who hate me will think that the Word God is high fiving them.
See? Everyone wins.
A few years from now coprastinating will be in dictionaries. Just wait and see.
Mock: PLEASE tell the poignant/pungent story…..
I have co-workers who have great “ideals” about changes we should make around the office, “irregardless” of the consequences. My favorite, though, was the time our GENERAL MANAGER made reference to a “Cyst and Decease” letter that we had received from our competition’s legal team. But what do you expect from a guy who tried to get us to donate money for his friend’s six year old SON’S medical treatment - for ovarian cancer?
I was talking to my dear mother last week, and she was telling me a story. During the story she was referring to a catalytic converter, but she kept calling it a Cadillac converter. I didn’t have the heart to correct her.
“cyst and decease” - BEST MESS-UP EVER!!!
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I’m with Pris. I know people combine/make-up words like ‘dramastically’ which sounds like a hybrid of dramatically and drastically, but I cannot stand when error leads to use, and over use leads to new dictionary definitions. It’s insulting! Once again I refer to ‘baby daddy’. Put the fricking possessive back in the phrase and try to make yourself sound educated.
Once when my daughter was studying her spelling words she asked me what a “ear liar” was. I was busy making dinner and half listening to her so I just responded “I don’t know honey”. She became very annoyed and so my brother (who was at my house for another free dinner)looked at the list and said, “you mean earlier”! We both laughed so hard-she of course ran to her room and slammed the door-aaahhh kids.
My ex-hubby gave me a set of books all-in-one for our first Christmas. He called it a copulation… not compilation. In front of my PARENTS!!! I was mortified. I was also 19.
My favorite is from Darrell Waltrip (NASCAR) using a combination of sliding and sideways to make slideways.
I just heard a story about a 4 year old who called his uncle a bast$%#. Everyone was shocked until his explanation that the uncle had a bass boat and was a turd. Ahh, kids yes.
Not a combination word, but my son calls the crusty sleep you have in your eyes when you wake up, “tired rocks”!
tired rocks, oh that’s cute! Cause somewhere someone came up with “sleep in your eyes” which doesn’t make a ton of sense. but we all know it. I like tired rocks!
my son, while we were driving in the car, said he saw 4 police officers copulating in their car (i think he meant congregating-he was trying to sound smart) but i never laughed so hard in my life, hahahah, of course he was only 9 or 10 yrs old at the time…sorry this has nothing to do with putting words together to make another word…
When I was in high school I had a part time job in a grocery store. One afternoon I was helping one of the managers put together a stand alone display - you know, the ones you run into with your cart and knock all over the floor.
After struggling with this thing (with rods, baskets, metal parts and other items I could not identify) for over an hour I blurted out, in my special scarcastic way, “This is more fun than erection set!” The manager stopped and stared at me and the little old lady wheeling her groceries out of the store gave me a very dirty look, sniffed at me and walked out. After I realized what I had said I turned 15 shades of red and decided there was work to be done in the back room and stayed there the rest of the shift.
Misusing words is almost as bad as making words up.
My favorites are “edumacation” and “expecially.” My manager used the latter today throughout our training session, and I just had to bite my knuckles to keep from breaking out my mini-dictionary and give him an “expecially” good “edumacation” in the use and spelling of such words. “Irregardless,” the story ends there.
My favorite…from a friend of mine (college graduate) “Personably, I could neve drive acrossed country, irregardless of the kind of car I had.”
All I can come up with is my all-time-most-hated fake word “momager.”
I once meant to say put that in your pipe and smoke it and instead said “put that in your smike and pope it”. For some reason it was hysterical and to this day it was my dysfunctional group of friends and I say instead of the correct saying.
I am married to the king of made up words. He has an arsenal. Stupidiot anyone?