http://www.killfive.com Five Killer Skills for Freelance Writing Success Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:12:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.killfive.com/word-day-neologism/ http://www.killfive.com/word-day-neologism/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:01:43 +0000 Killer http://www.killfive.com/?p=776 embaPub="pub-7892081358828087 ";If you don’t know what neologisms are, you should know you use them all the time. A neologism is a new word or expression that finds its way into language. Such as “blog” or “email.” Now, I want to take a moment to point out Merriam’s second definition. I thought they might be joking with the definition, “a meaningless word coined by a psychotic.” Once again, dictionary.com comes to the rescue and explains that a neologism can be a word made of combinations of other words that only the speaker understands. This is a psychological term used to describe some of the speech idiosyncrasies of schizophrenics. Now that’s a lot clearer that ” a meaningless word coined by a psychotic.” That definition could fit any number of utterances from our recent former President.]]> http://www.killfive.com/word-day-neologism/feed/ 0