December 11, 2005, 13:10
hepburn26neologisms by children
i love this!
http://finslippy.typepad.com/finslippy/2005/12/i_recover_henry.htmlwhat words or phrases have you heard- or invented as a child?
December 11, 2005, 14:12
CatI think I've said this on here before somewhere, but when I was very young (from about 2ish), I had the phrase '
owy owy cumpa' ('owy' pronounced to rhyme with 'cow-ee'), which according to my mum could be a substitute for a word I didn't know, or an expression on its own. And presumably, anything I wanted it to be.
I make up words now if I can't think of anything suitable that already exists, although they're usually just mutations of 'real' words, so my friends generally know what I mean. I'm not the only one either.
December 11, 2005, 20:43
KallehHow fun! I loved "shnerb!"
My sweet youngest daughter used to sit in her car seat, thrusting herself backward and forward, sing heartily...3 songs that she made up! Her neologisms were probably more that she had trouble with pronunciations, but they were hilarious anyway. She kept saying, while driving, "Look at all those Hoisonplays." We didn't get it for a long time...then it came to us "license plates!"
December 13, 2005, 05:05
hepburn26hoisonplays...i love it!
i used to think it was 'a round of the plause' (applause) and called swings 'hours', I don't know why...
December 13, 2005, 18:21
haberdasherI'm still partial to using a "fly-smacker" in the summertime...even though its inventor is now 37.
December 13, 2005, 18:32
KallehI
love "fly-smacker!" I think I am going to use that from now on, too!
December 14, 2005, 07:36
shufitzquote:
My sweet youngest daughter used to sit in her car seat, thrusting herself backward and forward, sing heartily...3 songs that she made up! Her neologisms were probably more that she had trouble with pronunciations.
Ah yes, I re
nember it well.
December 14, 2005, 07:38
shufitzquote:
Originally posted by haberdasher:
I'm still partial to using a "fly-smacker" in the summertime...
I thought it was a flash-water, isn't it?