Did you perhaps mean one of these? deification, densification, depreciation, deprivation
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WF - weird sniglets
Phenomena of modern life that would go unnoticed if someone hadn't come up with a weird word for them. For the definitions see in the books of the bibliography listed here: hozone, apocalycloset, marade, Adam 69, alcolean, ancinemation, anniversorry, autoberg, carperimiter, cinemuck, doork, downpause and 253 more...
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choclamous, mongermonger, depidgin, bysmal, scetic, punnery, deprifixation, demagod, propertea, quaffher, vanden plas, motination and 65 more...
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Prolagus I would call it 'phesis. :) Dec 29, 2008
corylusavellana In rare cases you might be removing a genuine classical prefix (when an affixed word is in use and the root never has been), but it depends entirely on the word and its etymology. Otherwise, yes, it's just a bit of fun. Dec 29, 2008
qroqqa I withdraw my claim that this is equivalent to aphesis: that's just a phonetic reduction, but the present process is morphological: you treat something that isn't an affix as an affix. Dec 29, 2008
corylusavellana That's a brilliant solution, rolig! Thank you. Dec 22, 2008
qroqqa Gardyloo. This has an unmadeupical name 'aphesis'. Dec 22, 2008
rolig I was going to suggest this should be deprefixation, but as reesetee points out, it's a madeupical word anyway. Also, I wondered if the spelling was intentional, to form a portmanteau from deprivation + prefix. Dec 22, 2008
reesetee I had no idea there were such rules for madeupical words. ;-) Dec 22, 2008
corylusavellana "There is a slight potential problem with this method if the result is a noun." Sionnach is correct... avoid using this method to create nouns from words with a- prefixes. It may get terribly confusing.
I'm rather touched that nobody's yet pointed out my glaring typo... if only one could edit the word after the event. Dec 22, 2008
sarra Sentences like "Nora's a norexic" are out.
Not for me, though, as the "a"s are schwas. Quite different! Dec 22, 2008
sionnach There is a slight potential problem with this method if the result is a noun. Suppose one wishes to coin the madeupical term "norexic" to describe one's housemate Nora, who never met a snack food she didn't like, and has the embonpoint to prove it. Sentences like "Nora's a norexic" are out.
I believe you allude to this issue in one of your other comments.
But I like this whole new approach to generating madeupical words. So much leaner and more streamlined than those portmanteau coinages.
Hmmm. How about necdotal evidence? Yes, I like it!
*scurries off to add it to list*
P.S. Welcome to Wordie! Dec 22, 2008
corylusavellana The art of making madeupical words by the simple removal or prefixes, e.g. ascetic --> scetic. Dec 22, 2008