atw: I just googlewhacked with antineologist

Hi All,

Unlike Alan I find a woman saying she was "googling her handbag" funny and 
creative and I think 
google is the kind of word that has no hope of not being appropriated by people 
for their own 
use (whereas Vivisimo probably will only ever be used to refer to the search 
engine).

I find a fairly antineologist (against making up new words) attitude on this 
list but my feeling is it 
depends on why a word was created, how it's used, how it sounds and so on - of 
course, it's all 
subjective and what is a great word for one person is a horrible word for 
another. I guess you 
can always neologise and see if it takes off.

I googled to see if "antineologist" had ever been used before or whether I was 
neologising by 
using it (see definition of "neologism" below) and googlewhacked (got only one 
result) though 
strangely the blurb in the result did not match the text on the linked page - 
perhaps because it's 
a restricted site. Vivisimo and msnsearch did not 
return any result.

ANTINEOLOGIST - GOOGLE RESULT
Daniel Rosenberg - Louis-Sebastien Mercier's New Words ... 
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v036/36.3rosenberg.html>
.. Jean-François Marmontel, still had to defend the study of neology against the
pronouncements of the Academy's antineologist members: "These are the ...

TEXT ON LINKED PAGE
Abstract
Louis-Sébastien Mercier opposed the language politics of both Right and Left 
during the French 
Revolution. His 1801 La Néologie, ou vocabulaire de mots nouveaux, à 
renouveler, ou pris dans 
des acceptions nouvelles is a kind of antidictionary, promoting linguistic 
innovation rather than 
standardization or reform. In this work, as in others, Mercier vindicates the 
creativity of speakers 
and writers against the "caprice" of institutions. "The life of a language," he 
writes, "is that of 
the people to whom it belongs."

NEOLOGISM
guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/lit_terms_N.html
A made-up word that is not a part of normal, everyday vocabulary. Often 
Shakespeare invented 
new words in his place for artistic reasons. For instance, "I hold her as a 
thing enskied." The 
word enskied implies that the girl should be placed in the heavens. Other 
Shakespearean 
examples include climature (a mix between climate and temperature) and abyssm 
(a mix between 
abyss and chasm), and compounded verbs like outface or unking. Contrast with 
kenning, above. 
Occasionally, the neologism is so useful it becomes a part of common usage, 
such as the word 
new-fangled that Chaucer invented in the 1300s. A neologism may be considered 
either a 
rhetorical scheme or a rhetorical trope, depending upon whose scholarly 
definition the reader 
trusts. See compounding. 

Regards,
Petra Liverani

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