New Words
I've realised that I've been coming up with a lot of new words recently; some of them useful, some not so much. Anyway, I've decided to write them down in order to help get them in common lexicon. Each of the examples below will contain:
Detangiblise (alt. Detangify, Abstrify, Abstralise) (v.) - make a tangible noun into an abstract noun.
This came about because I watched the start of Amadeus on NT Live (depending on when you read this, that link (to the full play on YouTube) might not be active). What the story is about is irrelevant, but the point is that the play opens after all the events have taken place. The rest of the play happens before that. Afterwards, I discussed it with my Dad, who watched the whole thing.
Me: I found that bit at the beginning very confusing.
Dad: That's probably because it's set after the rest of the play.
M: Ah, so they did a Blood Brothers on it?
D: Yes.
M: OK, so I've now turned Blood Brothers into a verb [This isn't bad writing; this is genuinely how I talk]
D: No, that's still a noun.
M:
D:
Me: Oh, yes. To make it a verb, I'd need to say "they Blood Brothersed it"
D: Right.
For those of you who don't know, Blood Brothers (link to notes I made for a review I never wrote) is a musical about twins who end up killing each other. The show starts with them being dead, then reverts back to before they were born and follows all the major events that lead to the fratricide.
We then figured out that it was a tangible noun originally, and we turned it into an abstract noun - hence - tangiblised it.
Example sentence:
I was saying how Amadeus was like Blood Brothers, but it's a tangible noun so I detangiblised it.
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Detangiblise (alt. Detangify, Abstrify, Abstralise) (v.) - make a tangible noun into an abstract noun.
This came about because I watched the start of Amadeus on NT Live (depending on when you read this, that link (to the full play on YouTube) might not be active). What the story is about is irrelevant, but the point is that the play opens after all the events have taken place. The rest of the play happens before that. Afterwards, I discussed it with my Dad, who watched the whole thing.
Me: I found that bit at the beginning very confusing.
Dad: That's probably because it's set after the rest of the play.
M: Ah, so they did a Blood Brothers on it?
D: Yes.
M: OK, so I've now turned Blood Brothers into a verb [This isn't bad writing; this is genuinely how I talk]
D: No, that's still a noun.
M:
D:
Me: Oh, yes. To make it a verb, I'd need to say "they Blood Brothersed it"
D: Right.
For those of you who don't know, Blood Brothers (link to notes I made for a review I never wrote) is a musical about twins who end up killing each other. The show starts with them being dead, then reverts back to before they were born and follows all the major events that lead to the fratricide.
We then figured out that it was a tangible noun originally, and we turned it into an abstract noun - hence - tangiblised it.
Example sentence:
I was saying how Amadeus was like Blood Brothers, but it's a tangible noun so I detangiblised it.
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