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zizoo commented on the word circumcredance
-noun
Quality of being believable without receiving open acceptance (esp. ideas or concepts).
(Latin circum "around" + cred "belief")
(edit)Made-up word brought to you by... apparently an idiot. xP
February 25, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word circumcredance
Made-up word, and misformed: second-declension cred- "believe" gives Latin credentia, English 'credence'.
February 25, 2009
zizoo commented on the word circumcredance
I know I made it up. >.> It's on my "words I made up" list (Very appropriately name "Zizoo's words"). Although I'm probably gonna go through now on all the others and edit my first comment to include that I made it up. And I'm just making them up out of boredom and a vague understanding of base words derived from knowledge of English rather than directly of Latin, so lemme know when I'm screwing up the form....
February 26, 2009
plethora commented on the word circumcredance
You can just tag them all madeupical, Zizoo.
February 26, 2009
zizoo commented on the word circumcredance
That definitely works. Thanks. Awesome word by the way, 'madeupical'.... Heh.
February 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the word circumcredance
Like it? It was made up here. :-)
February 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word circumcredance
Who made up madeupical? Was it jennarenn?
February 27, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word circumcredance
See nounal. And madeupical for the full story.
February 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word circumcredance
*doffs lid to reesetee*
February 28, 2009
reesetee commented on the word circumcredance
*grins sheepishly*
February 28, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word circumcredance
There was also madeupatory in the running, I believe. But madeupical is far better.
Which reminds me of that conversation about making Wordie jokes in real life and nobody gets them... I've used "madeupical" seriously in real life and gotten the strangest comments, and I say "What?!" like they're stupid, before I realize, "Oh. They're not on Wordie."
February 28, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word circumcredance
I use madeupical embarrassingly often in real life.
February 28, 2009
dontcry commented on the word circumcredance
same
February 28, 2009
reesetee commented on the word circumcredance
I do too. And I react the same way as c_b when someone doesn't get it. :-)
February 28, 2009
sionnach commented on the word circumcredance
I don't quite know how to say this without offending someone (and that someone would be qroqqa). See, while I agree with an earlier comment that bilby made, that the contributions of qroqqa and rolig are of such high calibre they bring a welcome linguistic gravitas to the site, one of Wordie's other virtues that I treasure is the sheer exuberance and enthusiasm for words and language that other, less linguistically well-informed members (which would be the great majority of the unwashed rest of us) bring to the party.
So it would be a great pity if "corrections", however well-justified, were to have the effect of stifling that exuberance, particularly in new members who are just learning to navigate the site. And believe me, the irony of my writing that is not lost on me, because - Lord knows - I am in no position to throw stones, given my propensity to tag words as misspelled. But maybe there is a middle ground, where newbies are given some extra leeway.
Because we sure don't want to risk losing the contributions of a Zizoo, or a Looseygoosey, dontchathink?
Just a thought.
February 28, 2009
dontcry commented on the word circumcredance
I'm down with that.
February 28, 2009
plethora commented on the word circumcredance
I've used madeupical in real life a couple of times, but because I use so many madeupical words all the time, my friends just don't react anymore.
February 28, 2009
dontcry commented on the word circumcredance
same
March 1, 2009
seanahan commented on the word circumcredance
I prefer to describe such a word as "perfectly cromulent", which more of my friends get, but when I use madeupical, they seem to pick up the meaning alright.
March 5, 2009