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Have you ever invented a word?

TheCatWoman

I have, BECATTED, the state of being a cat cushion where you can't move without disturbing the cat or two or three, and need others to do things, like get you a drink, pass you the tv remotes and stuf like that.

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  • I can't think of one now.  But I did think about this a bit. It's quite a fascinating topic. Looking across cultures in space and time, we encounter a diversity of phenomena related to "words":

    • Words that aren't used anymore,
    • Words that changed their meaning, 
    • Words from other languages adapted to our world,
    • Words that exist in some cultures and not in others.

    It makes sense that we create words for our needs or everyday experience, which is different for different times and location.

    One extreme example is that some cultures have words only for a few colours, whereas others have many, or divide the colour space differently. Do these cultures experience the same colours? Some say they don't (If I recall correctly).

    That was all a tangent, but my thought was, that it would make sense to think autistic individuals, having a different experience in some areas, would have words for it.

    I think making up words for certain experiences may be somewhat liberating and useful. Some of them would be too personal but an example would be a word for the relief I feel when some busy place is quiet.

    It seems a nice exercise. So thanks for the prompt.

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    Related (neologisms in autism):

    - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.70080

    - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/bf02284755

  • in reply to emanningis

    Interesting.

    emanningis said:
    Looking across cultures in space and time, we encounter a diversity of phenomena related to "words":

    I'd remembered hearing that Eskimos have many more words for snow than 'us' so I searched and found this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

    emanningis said:
    That was all a tangent, but my thought was, that it would make sense to think autistic individuals, having a different experience in some areas, would have words for it.

    Also, a different way of thinking ...

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