So while we were driving to the comic book store today, we were discussing how Paramount/CBS was coming down like a ton of bricks on “Axanar,” the new fan-made Star Trek film, and the circumstances that had resulted in it.
And Kath said, “Its become a major conflugration.”
And I said, “What? A what? A ‘conflugration?’ What the hëll is that? That’s not a word.”
(It’s not. I ran it through Merriam Webster and the Urban Dictionary. It doesn’t exist. So don’t tell me about some instances you found on Google because I don’t care.)
But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. It’s a combination of “confluence” and “conflagration.” It’s when a series of things comes together to create a metaphorical inferno of screw-ups.
So everyone start using it because I want this to become a real word.
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So, what you’re saying is that irregardless of it’s actual status you want it to be a word?
Pretty much. And yes, I know I’ve been complaining about the bášŧárdìzáŧìøņ of the language for years. Unfortunately no one has listened to me and it keeps on happening, so I want to see if I can actually create a new word and have it put into use.
And yes, I noticed that you used the hotly disputed non-word “irregardless” rather than the preferable “regardless” and put an unnecessary apostrophe into “its” just to be cute.
Although just for the record, “literally” and “figuratively” STILL MEAN OPPOSITES, DAMMIT.
PAD
Actually, I was just having fun with the whole regardless vs irregardless thing.
Tis a good word. One of those words that perfectly describes its definition, such as percolate or moist.
Now to find a way to get it into one of my stories and thus give my editor fits when she tries to figure it out. 🙂
I’d like to nominate a new word (as long as we’re on the topic): snarkolepsy (n): The tendency to lapse without provoction into snide remarks, unsually at someone else’s expense.
Well, in that case, Peter, I hope you will not object if I also offer Kathleen my most enthusiastic contrafibularities. I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation
Thanks, Blackadder.
PAD
With all due respect to Kathleen, I think that’s now called a Palinism.
Peter David: “…I ran it through Merriam Webster and the Urban Dictionary….”
Um, waitaminute—
You dismiss Wikipedia as a fan site with delusions of grandeur and pretensions of being a research venue on par with a legitimate encyclopedia because, according to you, it’s all-volunteer, anyone can contribute, and “there’s always some version of Head Nurse slugging it out with McMurphy.”
But you actually use as an reference source Urban Dictionary—which is also a site whose content is generated through user contributions, and whose users have a documented history of creating entries named after the online usernames of people they’ve had conflicts with, simply to attack those people?
Really?
Oooooooooooooookay. LOL.
Btw, if you need examples, here’s two:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nightscream
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gwandoya
There were both created by the same user eight years ago, and are still up right now.
No, I didn’t use it as a “reference source” because I didn’t consult it to see what it said. I just used it as a backup to see if anyone else had coined it first. My primary reference, as i noted, was Merriam-Webster. Basically I went from the top of reference availability to the absolute bottom just to be thorough.
PAD
Ah.