Friday 10 March 2023

Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: NEOLOGISMS (classic)

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Fulton's Gnu-bar
Hipster and hippy
More to follow

 





Authors' Note: Readers might also enjoy the authors' verses dealing with the epicurean hippy, the prosthetic hipster, the Congolese hippodromehip replacement, and the hippocampus.



OVERLAPPING THEMES:



Authors' Note: The disparaging term gobbledegook was first used in 1944 by a Texas politician named Maverick (scion of the original staunchly independent thinker). Its meaning — pompous, overinflated language — gave rise a few year later to the equivalent bafflegab. These expressions, employing repetition of sounds, have a musical and amusing quality, as do their venerable synonyms --hogwashpoppycockbalderdashbunkum and tommyrot. (Only their close cousin claptrap (alternately clap-trap) -- would qualify as a reduplication).




If you liked this blog-post, you might want to refer to our entire collection concerning author Giorgio Coniglio's Personal Neologisms. Click HERE.


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