Comments on: What do you call an aging neologism?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:53:09 +0000

Oldwordistan — sounds like the beginnings of a brave old world:

2084 and the Oldwordian dystopia starring “big great-great uncle” and “oldspeak.”

(Yes, I do attempt to draw ideas to the Roccoco)

By: kgs

kgs — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:30:26 +0000

Or we could say, Lo, we dwell in Oldwordistan?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:44:09 +0000

Since “neologism” means “new word,” paleogism means “old word” and an “aging neologism” means “old new word” maybe you should say anachrologism? (Or protopseudoeduanachrologism if you in the initial stages of using an old new word for “sort of” education purposes.)

By: kgs

kgs — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:48:12 +0000

Paleologism–that’s got a ring to it! The only other choice, methinks, would be something with geri; geriologism just wouldn’t be quite as clear.

By: lukethelibrarian

lukethelibrarian — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:22:20 +0000

Aging neologism… would that be a paleologism?

Who knows if it’s the right word, but it makes it sound like an interesting object of study, anyway.

By: kgs

kgs — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:54:48 +0000

The preliminary groundwork for your writing would later be discussed in the Journal of Protopseudoedubiblioblogospheric Studies…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:09:09 +0000

And if I, a public librarian, decided to blog about school libraries that would be pseudoedubiblioblogospherific! (which, I might add, is a longer word than antidisestablishmentarianism).

By: kgs

kgs — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:32:29 +0000

Then there’s the world of writing librarians… scrivenobiblioblogosphere? (I have always said if I ever had a daughter I would have named her Sweet Acidopholus.)

By: Alice Yucht

Alice Yucht — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:43:02 +0000

Uh oh. . . I coined “edubiblioblogosphere” on 2/22/06, as a catch-all phrase for the (still sparsely populated) world of K-12 school librarian bloggers. Guilty as charged!