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  • Jun. 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 PM
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Couresty of [info]baxil, I have just discovered the best site evar.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: go there, generate a few words that you like the sound of, and come up with fake dictionary definitions for them! Here's some I made earlier, in true Blue Peter tradition:

threrance n. 1. the reiteration of something three times. 2a. In pagan traditions that observe the Threefold Law, the force responsible for this. 2b. The manifestation of such. "When Johnny tripped over that tree root yesterday, he got his just threrance." 3. any manifestation of the energy of three.

appyrial adj. having physically manifested from another plane of existence.

marmague n. a dessert, having originated in Quebec, consisting of fruit-filled choux pastry topped with toffee.

posilt v. (of an object with metaphysical properties) to misalign; to place in juxtaposition with other objects or forces in an unbalancing way.

fewherve n. a weaving device used for unravelling the shells of Corsecardis turtles, which are constructed of a fine, thread-like substance used in the making of some kinds of protective clothing. v. to make thread using a fewherve.


Also, on an unrelated note, I am loving having this icon as my default so much. I don't know why; it just feels strangely liberating to present to the world this way. Something to ponder.

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[info]seika wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2007 08:22 pm (UTC)
--Not the same thing, since these were chosen for humour/irony rather than randomly generated, but it reminds me of this.
[info]eclective wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2007 08:39 pm (UTC)
....and there was much lol on the internets. omg. XDDD Those are hilarious.

Some of those are actually useful, too, like "indubiously". And "farfetching" is a lovely word, awww. --well, at least if you take it in the sense of "actually, they *can* be, it just seems unbelievable...."
[info]fractalstars wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2007 08:44 pm (UTC)
Have you ever read The Meaning of Liff? It's a not-totally-dissimilar idea (assigning meanings to place names based on their sound).

Also, I am a linguistgeek I guess; I got completely distracted by going "Hang on, is "leatch" actually technically a possible English word?" and sort of forgot the aim of the exercise entirely. ^^
[info]eclective wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2007 09:30 pm (UTC)
Ooh, winrar, and no, I have not.

(Also, I like the icon. Would be especially amusing when taking things completely out of context. XP)
[info]seirai wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2007 01:35 am (UTC)
Mmm, I want to make a marmague. :D
[info]eclective wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2007 01:41 am (UTC)
...you know, I totally thought that as soon as I'd created the concept. "That sounds good! I want one!" --I think it would be really nifty if someone did, because then the word would mean that (well, with the exception of being from Quebec; unless the person who first made one was!), and that would be the most meta way to bring something about....
[info]baxil wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2007 11:45 pm (UTC)
Randomly Coined Words, Magick Edition
wortat, n.: A portal that passes through the void between layers of existence.

thannint, n.: The smallest known discrete unit of magical energy, discovered by Sherinte Coushould in 1956 after the thanni was split. 1/23rd of a thanni; 1/529 of a thaum.

unsin, v.: To slough off bad karma by flaring during a transit through a wortat. Frowned upon by the Order of Grey, who believe that the negative energy discarded in this way accumulates in unspace and is responsible for the recent upswing in monster sightings.

sivistrece, n.: A magical hybrid of a rooster and a sumporges, which subsists on precious metals. Its gaze is known to slowly turn organic materials into silver. Highly prized by alchemists, but great care must be taken in their keeping.

saing, adj.: Carried in blood (as a spell effect). Saing magic is often studied by necromancers, though the Amight Battlemages have refined the field into fine science. Ancient saing experiments are thought to be the origin of werekind, even though modern sainanthropy is not transmissible by fluid exchange.

artent, n.: An omen that leaves you so slack-jawed at its beauty, thirty seconds later you've forgotten what it is it just warned you about.
[info]eclective wrote:
Jun. 24th, 2007 12:06 am (UTC)
Re: Randomly Coined Words, Magick Edition
J'adore. If you had fun writing, I most certainly enjoyed reading. A lot of these just have that ring of authentity about them.

And I really like the artent. Well, I don't think I'd like to meet one, but I loffled. It reminds me of things we've seen that are of a more positive respect.

A thannint really does sound like a small unit of magic....
[info]waywind wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2007 03:18 am (UTC)
Re: Randomly Coined Words, Magick Edition
Would your choice of definition for "saing" be because it sounds like "sanguine," or as a reference to "Sa"? Sa is some Kemetic concept, some sort of energy in the blood of gods that grants them immortality, but I might be remembering it wrong. There's a definition of it in "The Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were," but I don't even feel up to going and looking it up right now.

Thannint made me giggle. I'm always amused/intrigued by the concept of magick being quantifiable, since in this time and place it's as vague and unquantifiable as any other supernatural/spiritual phenomenon. Sivitrece: I get it, a silver cockatrice... but since it's "trece," it might have something to do with the number three, or with Pythagoras. Wortat and artent both sound potentially useful in dialog, but unsinning could possibly happen elsewhere than a wortat. When people go for baptism, or bathe in the river Ganges, they're trying to wash away sins or karma so they can be purified and have a fresh start, right?
[info]baxil wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2007 08:56 am (UTC)
Re: Randomly Coined Words, Magick Edition
wrt "saing": Yeah, I was pretty much just borrowing straight from the Latin word root -- sanguis, blood, as seen in perfectly legitimate English words as "exsanguinate" or "sanguine."

As far as unsinning, I was thinking of it as a concept distinct from redemption or cleansing - in the same way that there's a subtle but real distinction between "undo" and "fix." Although the distinction between ridding one's self of sin via a river and ridding one's self of sin via a void is pretty academic. *shrug* Mostly it was being handed a word that seemed to mean something already and tying it in with the theme. :)
[info]premchai21 wrote:
Jun. 24th, 2007 12:09 am (UTC)

So does "posilt" have stress on first or second syllable?

[info]eclective wrote:
Jun. 24th, 2007 12:17 am (UTC)
Second; posilt, with the s pronounced like the s in posit, not the s in silt.
[info]packbat wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2007 01:31 am (UTC)
I put pronunciation symbols on mine (though I keep mispronouncing "Cource" x_X).
(Anonymous) wrote:
Jul. 2nd, 2007 04:24 am (UTC)
Nice one
It was never my idea that Yould could become a completely new game. I like your entries. I made a few tweaks to make it easier to use the web interface to play the game. If it reaches critical mass, I might add something to build a completely fake and bogus dictionnary right on the Yould website. Maybe a simple wiki would do the trick. Feel free to post links to other/new entries here (http://ygingras.net/b/2007/7/the-scrabble-cheat-sheet-project).

-- Yannick Gingras (http://ygingras.net)
[info]eclective wrote:
Jul. 2nd, 2007 12:00 pm (UTC)
Re: Nice one
Wow-- I'm really flattered! Thank you! I didn't even know it was spreading that far, myself; I just really enjoy playing with words and language, creating things like fantastical dictionary entries, journalism, advertising and the like that appear real. Your site is a wonderful tool; there are other random name generators out there, but none that actually attempt to form pronouncable words based on the English language, and I've been really fascinated by what it could create.

Maybe I'll get the chance to bake you a marmague one day!
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