Hackish is full of such coinages; so is Buffy. Sometimes merely playful, sometimes bloody useful. Especially for a poet.
Two memories are called to mind; the first time I used the word "heterogenous" in conversation, the person two whom I was speaking called me on it and told me it wasn't a word. I replied that if it wasn't one before, it was as of that moment because I'd formed it according to the rules. Then I found a dictionary and there it was (along with the preferred form, "heterogeneous").
And another time, in response to a lover's pun, I picked up a pillow and menaced her with it, miming smiting her, and saying "wapiti wapiti wapiti wapiti!" She broke down in giggles and said, "Wapiti? That's not a word!" I replied that it was clearly onomatopoeia and therefore automatically valid. She countered that it wasn't in the dictionary. I figured it was worth a shot, so I pulled out her OED and ... there it was! She gave me an astonished, "You have no right to be able to get away with shit like that!" look. Betrayed by her own library.
Though I now confess (hoping she's not reading this) that the spelling I'd been looking for was "whappity". Fortunately the pronounciation of "wapiti" works. :-)
I need to get back into the habit of writing poems. I don't do it as much as I used to.
Re: I make up words
Two memories are called to mind; the first time I used the word "heterogenous" in conversation, the person two whom I was speaking called me on it and told me it wasn't a word. I replied that if it wasn't one before, it was as of that moment because I'd formed it according to the rules. Then I found a dictionary and there it was (along with the preferred form, "heterogeneous").
And another time, in response to a lover's pun, I picked up a pillow and menaced her with it, miming smiting her, and saying "wapiti wapiti wapiti wapiti!" She broke down in giggles and said, "Wapiti? That's not a word!" I replied that it was clearly onomatopoeia and therefore automatically valid. She countered that it wasn't in the dictionary. I figured it was worth a shot, so I pulled out her OED and ... there it was! She gave me an astonished, "You have no right to be able to get away with shit like that!" look. Betrayed by her own library.
Though I now confess (hoping she's not reading this) that the spelling I'd been looking for was "whappity". Fortunately the pronounciation of "wapiti" works. :-)
I need to get back into the habit of writing poems. I don't do it as much as I used to.
Re: I make up words
:s/two whom/to whom/
What an unfortunate place for me to glitch that. *grumble*