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 ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************