They're running out of neologisms
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
They're running out of neologisms
I'm 45 now, which means neologisms are illegal now. thank you for your attention to this matter
September 29, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I'm 45 now, which means neologisms are illegal now. thank you for your attention to this matter
Another possibility is that fable is much better than humans at developing task-specific ontologies / semantic neologisms
Broke: Fable talks like a smart person.
Woke: Smart people talk clearly.
Bespoke: Fable navigates towards confusing turns of phrase as a means of conditioning the latent space in order to produce good output.
Woke: Smart people talk clearly.
Bespoke: Fable navigates towards confusing turns of phrase as a means of conditioning the latent space in order to produce good output.
July 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Another possibility is that fable is much better than humans at developing task-specific ontologies / semantic neologisms
"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
March 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
sorry i’ve just completely lost patience with all the handwringing about wokeness and DEI. stop hiding behind these 21st century neologisms and just have the courage of your convictions. say you’re a segregationist. say you think the civil rights act was a mistake. go ahead!
August 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
sorry i’ve just completely lost patience with all the handwringing about wokeness and DEI. stop hiding behind these 21st century neologisms and just have the courage of your convictions. say you’re a segregationist. say you think the civil rights act was a mistake. go ahead!
I wrote long on "unalive," and on why tech companies prefer us to talk and act like babies johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/un-alive
Un-Alive
On neologisms, viruses, and being human
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wrote long on "unalive," and on why tech companies prefer us to talk and act like babies johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/un-alive
I really like new words (neologisms)...a couple of days ago we had villainaire, today's is not bad either...
February 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I really like new words (neologisms)...a couple of days ago we had villainaire, today's is not bad either...
Neologisms stand an extremely good chance of completely sucking, but yassification is a champ, and it may be my favorite one since regift.
August 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Neologisms stand an extremely good chance of completely sucking, but yassification is a champ, and it may be my favorite one since regift.
In news unrelated to my rampant neologisms, I'm done with another chapter of the WIP. Progress!
Me, writing: "...took her body and puppeted it, making her say those words..."
Autocorrect: Did you mean "...took her body and pupated it..."?
Me: I did not.
The dictionaries appear to not think "puppet" can be a verb, and enh, sounds like a second-draft problem to me.
Autocorrect: Did you mean "...took her body and pupated it..."?
Me: I did not.
The dictionaries appear to not think "puppet" can be a verb, and enh, sounds like a second-draft problem to me.
September 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
In news unrelated to my rampant neologisms, I'm done with another chapter of the WIP. Progress!
Ingrid out here dropping S Tier neologisms like it’s no biggie
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
March 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Ingrid out here dropping S Tier neologisms like it’s no biggie
Damn those woke ancient Romans and their neologisms
March 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Damn those woke ancient Romans and their neologisms
anyone who has used ChatGPT o3 -- which is probably the most bizarre thing sold for money on the Internet -- will be familiar with this weird, loose paraphrasia full of clanging and hyphenated neologisms
July 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
anyone who has used ChatGPT o3 -- which is probably the most bizarre thing sold for money on the Internet -- will be familiar with this weird, loose paraphrasia full of clanging and hyphenated neologisms
Neologisms and black tar ruined my life
March 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Neologisms and black tar ruined my life
"Gretacene". Doctorow's neologisms are undefeated.
As Solnit writes, Trump's stupid war follows on the heels of another unforgivable and cruel blunder: Putin's quagmire in Ukraine, which catapulted Europe into the Gretacene, with a wholesale, continent-wide shift away from fossil fuels to renewables and the devices they power.
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May 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"Gretacene". Doctorow's neologisms are undefeated.
i am a fan of excellence in neologisms. (making fetch happen!)
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
March 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
i am a fan of excellence in neologisms. (making fetch happen!)
Bloody le Carré frame: no weird neologisms. (He loved weird neologisms, but obviously did not write them.)
May 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Bloody le Carré frame: no weird neologisms. (He loved weird neologisms, but obviously did not write them.)
Wonderful paper reframing autistic neologisms (inventing new words) as linguatype (an autistic way of speaking) rather than a deficit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (with thanks to the ever-excellent @pkwalkersharpe.bsky.social for flagging it up!)
An Autistic “Linguatype”? Neologisms, New Words, and New Insights
In this commentary, we present new ideas about autistic neologisms. This essay has two primary goals. First, we argue that an autistic predilection to form neologisms generates intriguing new hypothe....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wonderful paper reframing autistic neologisms (inventing new words) as linguatype (an autistic way of speaking) rather than a deficit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (with thanks to the ever-excellent @pkwalkersharpe.bsky.social for flagging it up!)
So many horrible neologisms I have yet to encounter
April 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
So many horrible neologisms I have yet to encounter
Which #Wikipedia article is this?
1964 neologisms · Olfaction · Precipitation · Rain · Soil
Play Q1 at https://catfishing.net
1964 neologisms · Olfaction · Precipitation · Rain · Soil
Play Q1 at https://catfishing.net
September 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Which #Wikipedia article is this?
1964 neologisms · Olfaction · Precipitation · Rain · Soil
Play Q1 at https://catfishing.net
1964 neologisms · Olfaction · Precipitation · Rain · Soil
Play Q1 at https://catfishing.net
one of my favorite SF neologisms remains how in the Revelation Space books they call civvie nukes "harbormakers"
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
one of my favorite SF neologisms remains how in the Revelation Space books they call civvie nukes "harbormakers"
i'm kind of amazed like a decade on we're still seeing totally new awful neologisms for trump pop up. it's like a precambrian explosion for orange cheeto variants
September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
i'm kind of amazed like a decade on we're still seeing totally new awful neologisms for trump pop up. it's like a precambrian explosion for orange cheeto variants
also if anyone says cis and trans are neologisms, they're literally Latin. Julius Caesar used those words.
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
also if anyone says cis and trans are neologisms, they're literally Latin. Julius Caesar used those words.
wokescold gotta be one of the most annoying neologisms ever
May 30, 2026 at 3:30 PM
wokescold gotta be one of the most annoying neologisms ever
"Zionists used Biblical Hebrew and created neologisms where necessary" does not mean "Hebrew is a fake language."
Klingon is a conlang.
Hebrew is a natural language that got supplanted by Aramaic during the Babylonian Exile, and then was reintroduced as a spoken language.
Hebrew isn't Klingon
Klingon is a conlang.
Hebrew is a natural language that got supplanted by Aramaic during the Babylonian Exile, and then was reintroduced as a spoken language.
Hebrew isn't Klingon
April 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
"Zionists used Biblical Hebrew and created neologisms where necessary" does not mean "Hebrew is a fake language."
Klingon is a conlang.
Hebrew is a natural language that got supplanted by Aramaic during the Babylonian Exile, and then was reintroduced as a spoken language.
Hebrew isn't Klingon
Klingon is a conlang.
Hebrew is a natural language that got supplanted by Aramaic during the Babylonian Exile, and then was reintroduced as a spoken language.
Hebrew isn't Klingon