Have you ever coined a word?

[Savonarola]

I was listening to a series of lectures on cyber-culture from the Berkeley.  The professor asked the class if anyone had ever made up a word; some of the students had and I was thinking "Liberal Arts Majors ," until I remembered that I had made up a few myself.  So I was wondering if anyone here had done the same.

The words I coined are:

Puellale:  "Puerile" come from the Latin word for boy; "Puellale" (from the Latin word for girl) would be childish in feminine direction; for instance the doll houses grown women in the Netherlands put together during their golden age would be a puellale activity.

Mis-viristic:  Man hater; English has the word misogynistic to describe a woman hater, but its masculine equivalent, misanthrope hates mankind, not men specifically.  This one doesn't really work, though, since in Latin "Vir" connotes a great man; while using the more common word form man would lead to "Mis-homoistic" which makes me think of Van Morrison singing "Into the Mis-homoistic"

Deformazione professionale:   Not something I invented, but rather stole from the Italians.  The phrase literally means "Professional deformation," which means that certain people develop charateristics based on their profession.  Teachers, for example, will often speak slowly and clearly since they do this in their professional life.  There's no term that expresses this concept in English, so, as an English speaker, I think we should take it from a language that does.

[DGuller]

I may have enverbened a few nouns here and there, but nothing geeky like what you came up with.

[The Brain]

I invented the question mark.

[Savonarola]

I invented the question mark.

I inverted the question mark: ¿

[The Brain]

I invented the question mark.

I inverted the question mark: ¿

[Barrister]

I invented the question mark.

Do you have a bald son with a fetish for nehru jackets?

[Razgovory]

I created a word once.  "Taco".  Then I found out "Taco" was already a word.

[The Brain]

I invented the question mark.

Do you have a bald son with a fetish for nehru jackets?

He's at his luge lesson.

[Threviel]

Yes, "Felsocial", swedish word meaning a person that don't behave properly. Someone that talks about the wrong subjects or tells jokes that no one laughs at. Emperor Wilhelm II was a felsocial person.

[The Brain]

Yes, "Felsocial", swedish word meaning a person that don't behave properly. Someone that talks about the wrong subjects or tells jokes that no one laughs at. Emperor Wilhelm II was a felsocial person.

[Threviel]

Yes, "Felsocial", swedish word meaning a person that don't behave properly. Someone that talks about the wrong subjects or tells jokes that no one laughs at. Emperor Wilhelm II was a felsocial person.

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[PRC]

I invented the word "Dork".  It actually started out as "Dorkostat"... but it was the shortened version that really took off.

[The Brain]

Yes, "Felsocial", swedish word meaning a person that don't behave properly. Someone that talks about the wrong subjects or tells jokes that no one laughs at. Emperor Wilhelm II was a felsocial person.

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You're kind.

[DontSayBanana]

I've got kind of an evolving word.  It started out as "herpa derp" and has been steadily gaining words as I see stupid or nonsensical things, and it's been catching on.

Currently, it's at "herpa-derpa-ruby-tuesday-broken-big-ben-brownie." (Read it like Swedish Chef for the best effect)

[Grey Fox]

Yes, I do all the time. I'm surprisingly succesfull at doing that, especially at work.