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Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
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message 1: by Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant (last edited Sep 04, 2011 09:15AM) (new)

Magdelanye | 2851 comments This is actually quite silly: GR has insisted that I CHOOSE from a list of titles in the topic box. Maybe we should track down this John Metcalf sounds interesting, it was the closest I could come to what I actually entered: New Words
I thought it might be interesting to collect the new words and expressions coined on Flight Paths, so they dont get lost in the shuffle.
Please add your own and feel free to use :)


message 2: by Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant (new)

Magdelanye | 2851 comments Infactuated: as in "Empty minds are a bit of a challenge to me as I have always been infactuated with my imagination"
quoted from Ices comment on the dreamscape thread.


message 3: by Ice, Pilgrim (new)

Ice Bear (neilar) | 838 comments I like one of the recommendations that is being made for the third book in Roth's Divergent trilogy ... detergent !


message 4: by Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant (new)

Magdelanye | 2851 comments In a thoughtful review of Julia Kristeva by Steve Godin that i read this morning, the word abject is deconstructed.
I havent read the book, so i dont know if its used, but i think the word abjectify is a good one for describing how power can crush hope by destroying not only lives but the context of lives.


message 5: by Mary Anne (new)

Mary Anne | 210 comments Abjectify is a good word that seems to get along well with its cousin objectify.


message 6: by Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant (new)

Magdelanye | 2851 comments exactly


message 7: by Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant (new)

Magdelanye | 2851 comments Petras given us a lovely word idealic which deftly combines idylic and ideal, as in reading a book in the sunshine on the grass


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