Post by corpsecandle on Feb 22, 2013 0:47:10 GMT
I am not sure if you are like me but due to the nature of which I got to grips with the many pitfalls and oddities (even basic structure) of the English language I tend to make some really weird mistakes.
One of them is using words I thought existed only to find that this was not so. Thanks to the internet you can find out if your mind has just come up with a nonsense word or not.
One that I found out didn't exist on this very night was Pulpated. I thought it was a word that meant: to make into pulp. I have used it in at least one of my stories and often wonder what a dullard it made me look...and probably still does.
Have you sworn blind a certain word is in existence when it isn't?
I have to admit I think there is a little slack in using "made up words" in fiction, I used the term Lizardrine in one tale to describe a man whom was lizard like. All the official actual words didn't feel right and I thought so long as the word said what I meant and it didn't look to hard to figure out (in context and all) I could get away with it.
One of them is using words I thought existed only to find that this was not so. Thanks to the internet you can find out if your mind has just come up with a nonsense word or not.
One that I found out didn't exist on this very night was Pulpated. I thought it was a word that meant: to make into pulp. I have used it in at least one of my stories and often wonder what a dullard it made me look...and probably still does.
Have you sworn blind a certain word is in existence when it isn't?
I have to admit I think there is a little slack in using "made up words" in fiction, I used the term Lizardrine in one tale to describe a man whom was lizard like. All the official actual words didn't feel right and I thought so long as the word said what I meant and it didn't look to hard to figure out (in context and all) I could get away with it.
