GodsDAMNit!

[wolven7]

Deadsy - [Flowing Glower]--- i need the word that fits the definition of "A word that has lost its meaning. Yes, i know, that's a Category of words, but i can't seem to find the NAME for the damned category, anywhere... c'mon, people, one of you has to know this. You're all smart people... obviously smarter than me... In this case... Shit... When you SAY or READ a word, and it slips from your grasp, the syllables are merely their phonemes, and the letters are fucking random arrangements. (Oingo Boingo - [Little Girls]). There is (I THINK) a word for these phenomena... if not... then i will make one.

Find it, or make it.

{Addendum. 10.51: Voltaire - [Ex Lover's Lovers]--- Until further notice, we are going with the phase "Compelled (or 'Forced.' Though perhaps 'Accidental...' Shit...) Glossolalia". For those of you who don't know what that is, Glossolalia, it's speaking in tongues. The dictionary defines it as "Meaningless. . . speech, such as in a trance state, or while under hypnosis, or certain schizophrenic seizures." But, Glossolalia isn't meaningless. Not totally... holds plenty of meaning, if your brain can return to the state, where it was, before it gelled its language centres... feh, read "Snow Crash." Any way... none of these work, really. (kidneythieves - [amnzer0]). Here's a "made up" word, that gets the feeling of it across, thanks to an Annonymous helper: "makhshin'taful " and you should think of it as... Something lost/ unknown/ removed from home/ brown. Like cedar, desert rock, sand brown... (Sneaker Pimps& Portishead - [Water]). And i'm out... 10.58

11.29. The Producers - [Springtime for Hitler (Original Cast)]--- Fuck it. So far as the English Language is concerned, I'm going with "Contextual Lexiconic Decimation," until i can talk to someone in the linguistics department, at State. Also see "Desophiate." *sigh* And, like Randy's dentist, so few will ever know how hard i tried... As for other languages, use the one i gave you. They'll know what you meant. Think of yourselves as Prophets. I give unto you the gift of tongues... &c.

Later.}

Comments

How About..?

[(Anonymous)]

Unsettling? I hate when that happens, it makes me wonder if I'm losing my mind. I don't think there *is* an actual term for it though.
-Mech

Re: How About..?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It IS unsettling... and, damn and blast it, i think you're right. Which is why i'm going to go to the linguistic studies department, at state, and find out some etymology... that's IT.... There's the word, perhaps... Anti-etymology... we shall see...

Re: How About..?

[(Anonymous)]

In all my linguistics classes, the loss of an entire word meaning has simply been referred to as word loss...not very glamorous, but it's what people say, you could also mean semantic narrowing though, which is the process by which a word's meaning becomes less general, severe semantic narrowing could reduce the usage of a word into obscurity. Such as neorxenawange...don't ask.
-Patrick

Re: How About..?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I just mean when you say or hear a word so much that it's reduced to senselessness... For example: Purchases.

I know what the word Means, but the arrangement of those letters Still looks wrong to me...Feh...

I wanna say,,,

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

"...gobbledygook." But That's probably not what you're lookin' fer. But I know what you're talking about. It's like the day I wrote the word "fuck" on a sheet of paper so many times that it slowly degenerated into a scribble and I actually forgot how to spell it for a good 5 minutes.

Re: I wanna say,,,

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Thank you, man. I can always count on you to, if nothing else, know exactly what i'm TRYING to say, if not how to say it... i think i'm just going to go with "ew," for that word, and the initial "GodsDamnit," for this problem as a whole.

From the makers of "Seelie" and "Feelings"

[karishi.livejournal.com]

comes the word "Seelings" for all your word usage needs! Intended to distinguish between the fundamentally different modes of sensation known as physical feeling and spiritual intuition, the word "seelings" would be a truly impressive addition to the dictionary if it didn't sound like something you see when you're inside and look up.
And is it just me, or did the word "addition" just do the same thing as "purchases?"

Yay, word brain go splat!