Stragedy - Not a word, but now it is
What makes a word, a word?
Why is one group of random letters aligned in a row called a word when another group of random letters in a row not? Is it because someone says so or just because people actually use one set of aligned letters and not the other?
I haven't got the answers, but I like making up words and to me they have real meaning so that means they're words, in my estimation of it anyway.
Many of my words I make up happen by accident or come to me in a flash of brilliance or sometimes echo around in my noggin for a while before coming out into the light of day in the right moment but no matter how the word happens once it's been uttered it enters my vocabulary for ever.
One of my words is stragedy which is a combination of the two words strategy and tragedy and it was created to describe the situation of well thought out strategy turning into tragedy later on. Fucken brilliant right?
An example of a stragedy
Back a while I played American Football competitively and took it seriously. I had a ten year playing career and loved most of it including the gym training, practice days and game days; I say most because the game caused me injuries, operations and I suffer a little now due to the hammering my body took. It was enjoyable though and the camaraderie I had with my team mates and the ability to pit my skills against others in what was often a titanic struggle are things I recall fondly.
Each off-season I'd work hard in the gym lifting weights, running long distances and short to increase stamina and burst-speed over short distances and working on flexibility and suppleness through calisthenics all based around a set plan - a strategy designed to have me ready to go from the first pre-season training and to have a solid platform from which to leap into a season of great results.
It worked every year and I achieved some very rewarding outcomes on the field but during one particular off-season I did most of my running on the road (instead of grass or an athletics track) and little by little I developed shin splints due to the impacts of each footfall on the hard surface which, for those who have not had the condition, is very painful. It's essentially when the shin bone, tendons and muscles become overworked...and the treatment? Rest, ice and pain killers.
It ruined my pre-season completely.
I'd go to practice with the team and spend a little time training and the rest icing up and popping pain killers which continued through the week and into game day; they were strong pain killers and...well folks, that's not a good thing.
After a few games I, in conjunction with the team doctors and my own, decided I'd need to stop playing for a while, get off the pain killers because I was eating too many, and spend some time rectifying the issue properly - time is the healer and it took a long time!
I thought a month (four games) would be about the time I'd need but it was eight and that meant I missed most of the regular season games and only came back a couple games before the playoffs.
I'd maintained my strength and fitness in ways that didn't stress the shin splint issue further, was on the sidelines at each game and kept my finger on the pulse but my match fitness was poor and besides, I felt like an outsider coming into the team right at the end of the regular season and playoffs after the rest of the team had done all the work.
I ended up finishing out the season, (we lost to a better team in a brutal (but fun) final game and ended up the season in second place), not too bad I guess but I hadn't played to my standards and was pretty fucken depressed.
It was a stragedy - a strategy that ended in tragedy.
I got over it and had several great seasons from there but will always look back on that year, the off-season, self-inflicted injuries, the recovery and the season itself with great disappointment. I learned a good lesson though, and made up a fucken good word!
Do you ever make up your own words or have you heard any good made up ones? Feel free to share them below in the comments if you'd like.
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Yeh that works I guess xD
I don't think I've had shin splints but some of the kids at gymnastics have, the taping for it is interesting (two versions I've seen are down either side of the shin bone and another one is a spiral which looked pretty cool and we were joking about just wrapping up the kids whole legs in coloured tape like that XD). It looks very inconvenient.
Whether it works or not, it's a word right?
Shin splints are terrible, painful and pretty much preclude w person from participating in their sport, just not nice. I think people who do gymnastics are quite prone to it, although it's not selective I guess; everyone is susceptible.
It’s funny the little man was just asking me the other day how do we get to decide on what a word is and isn’t. I forget the exact context but I think it was something along the lines of blue and book, how both have the “oo” sound but have different spellings and it was dumb lol.
I like this new term and it sounds like it was definitely the case. Good strategy and a tragedy after all was said and done. Sucks man!
The English language is a funny one, a mixture of so many others; language itself is quite interesting I think, how it has developed and and the influences that made that happen in history and all.
I think you know fuckzactly what I mean.
(That's my word too, a combination of fuck and exactly, used when one wants to vigorously agree.) 😉
Hahah I remember fuckzactly and my phone does too, it autocorrects to it now which is a testament to its power.
Haha, that's gold! I usually don't like phones autocorrecting me, but if it's for a cool made up word it's ok by me!
I make up words, most of the time by accident, but sometimes it fits so perfectly to the situation, I think I should adopt it so it doesn't just disappear forever.
Once in a while I have made one up on purpose. Only one comes to mind at this moment and that is thingadore. It's for when I LOVE something that is a thing. I do love some things, but it's not the same kind of love I have for people. I know love has many applications and people general know how you mean it by whatever context that's been said, but I wanted a different word for the "things" I love.
Weird..... but it counts.
Oh yeah, that one works fine! Thingadore, a thing one adores.
I'm thinking I'll do a little contest for the best made up word soon, maybe give away 10,000 Ecency points or so. How do you think that would go?
I don't know ! I think you should throw it out there and see what happens.
I might just do that, or just make it a #weekend-engagement topic I guess.
Just make the other topics no good if it is a weekend choice, so everyone will choose this one. LOL
Haha, I do that sometimes to force people into doing the one I want them to. Shhh...don't tell.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......I'll try to keep it hush-hush, but you know, sometimes there are things that are just too good not to tell.
😅
All good, I don't mind I guess, I have several other tricks up my sleave.
I remember when I couldn't participate in inter house sports because of a hip pain, even the pain killers could not help me. By the day of the final race, I insisted I would run, long story short, I came last.😂
One word I invented is vamonos from the Spanish word, vamos, which means lets go. Vamonos is a twisting of vamos and now hence it means lets go now! I usually use it in excitement when things I planned are working out, or when my team scores a goal, etc. funny enough the word has been adopted by a lot of my guys😎
I like that word! Well don't for making it up. I actually use the words vamos now and then in certain situations with a person who speaks Spanish that I know.. I'm going to mention your word to him and see what he thinks.
That would be cool, getting a feedback would be cooler😊
Probably a mixture of both those answers. What makes art art? And what makes art good art? One woman once said that my works are better than Picasso. It seemed that she was serious. Recently another person said that his 13 years old daughter paints better than me and that she is not even publishing her works in public. So what is the truth? Perhaps both opinions were truth for the person who said them. I think that the same applies to your made up words.
Whatever one perceives is often one's reality.
Hi Galen: The inventing words thing reminded me of a character in a novel (La Colmena) by a Spanish writer (Camilo José Cela). This character is an inventor of words who, in a scene of the movie based on the book, said: "I invent words, but one by one. And I give them to others. I never use them myself. I limit myself to enriching the national lexicon. That's my mission!" To which another character in the novel added: "Matías is a supplier of language raw material. What Isaac Peral did with the submarine, Matías Martí does with words". Greetings
Hmm, maybe someone might write a book about me and my words? Probably not though, no one would bother reading it. 😉
The novel was published in 1951, but maybe it could be prophetic and really talk about you 🤔, we will never know....
One of the world's great mysteries huh? Will the truth of it ever be revealed? I wonder.
Hi Galen, I just got home, sorry it took me so long to reply.About the question:
I don't think so, and besides it's much better that way, it's nicer a world with mysteries than without them. A hug
No worries, the real world is more important than the virtual world.
Thank you for understanding, have a great week, a hug
I don't make a lot of words, maybe a few here and there when I'm trying to be funny/witty. But I think the number of people who know and use the words make it a word. I checked the Webster dictionary website and they have been adding all sorts of words over there. Rizz, doggo, and simp are just a few of the recent additions.
Anything with letters can be a word I guess, if someone uses it...all words are just made up after all I guess.
When I was reading the post I was remembering when I tore my right knee when I overdid it on a hill walk.... it took me more than a month to recover and sometimes I feel that discomfort... it was in 2005, a long time ago!!! That made up word is great!
I tend to make up words accidentally and my family looks at me funny hahaha words like exaggeration of another one, not because of the mixture of two. For example mesclancia, one day I came up with that and they all laughed their heads off. I think it was because we were talking about someone who had made a very strange mixture of things. It was funny!
I don't know if it translates well into English hahaha.
That word you made up, if you told me it was an actually Spanish word I'd believe it, knowing no difference and all.
I actually invented it when I was in Argentina, a long time ago. My family laughed their heads off when I said it.🤣
I grew up with the mindset of "Sticks & Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"
Here is a thought. When a person says a word. How do you know what meaning they have given it? Yeah yeah I know context and all. How it is spoken.
But if a word hurts you, are you not hurting yourself. By attaching your minds eyes meaning to it?
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You're making my fucken head hurt. 😂
I had a coined word in my youth, which I used to describe the way I spent the evening, when someone would ask me, "What are you doing", I would answer him: "Cirkuliram".
"What does that mean to you?", was the next question... "
Well, I'm "Cirkam(I drink alcohol)" a little bit, and I'm "Kuliram(I'm cool) a little bit...".
That's a good one! I think it makes sense to make up our own words, who better to define in words our own needs, wishes and experiences?
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This is a good word that you have invented and I also like it because it sounds nice.
I invented one the other day hahaha... streeterrestrial (I don't think it exists, but maybe... I'm not sure). And I think I tried to justify it in my post, what it meant.
In Spanish I haven't invented a word I think.
Nice word and one I assume was relevant to the situation in which is was created.
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Thanks for the link. I'm actually thinking about doing a little concept with some Ecency points for the best ones...A make up a word concept. What do you think?
Do it, it's fine, good idea. I will donate Ecency points. 😍
Guess I had too much stragedies, so somewhere in the past stopped to believe in strategies working for me 🤷♀️
Just stopped by because wondering you didnt post for 3 days, thats unusual. Hope youre fine
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