A Word A Day Keeps the Dr. Away: neologism

9/22/11

neologism

neologism: a newly coined word or expression, rising in use

I started reading my first assignment for LIS (Library and Information Science) 510 this morning, and already, I have reservation, contestations even, with the first sentence. THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE of my graduate education, and I already have issues. Oh boy, oh bother. Here's my rant, hopefully, getting it off my chest will allow me to move on and finish reading this stupid article...

Yeah okay, we get it. You are smart, and are a doctoral student, and wrote this fancy pants article. But seriously?! "Necessitatean" is not a word. Probably never will be. I mean, what the fuck does it even mean? You could have just said "made necessary." I even looked in the latin dictionary. It's not in there. You can't just make up words! What merit badge allows you to do that in a scholarly article? Only children who are confused about the past tense and grammatical structure of modern English do that. You are being a child! Or are you? Fine, make up your own words. Go right ahead. Maybe I'm just jealous. humpf. Whatever. "Necessitatean" is not a word! bottom line.

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