Yes, this is my confession, in little internet-residing digital pixels-bytes. I did, in fact, make up the word ingenuitized<\/i>. I didn’t know a more appropriate word that would exactly convey my meaning in the specific type of sentence I was using with the wording and intent I had crafted around it.<\/p>\n
So, in the best of Hungarian linguistic tradition, I made up the word I needed. I, too, checked a dictionary and decided that since my word didn’t reside in an already-compiled tome, I would just declare it into existence. Maybe you should write to Gwyn Paden (Grandma says she already has); I’d love to be infamous in gramatical circles IN ADDITION TO being infamous in conspiracy theory circles. If you’d like to gaze on my conspiratorial notoriety, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Do I apologize? No, I don’t. I defend my decision as a legitimate act of linguistic development. I think of it in such terms because I did it consciously. Unlike my illustrious (but gramatically improverished) Commander-in-Chief, I chose to forge the yet-unknown waters of the tounge instead of splashing around in grammar’s kiddy pool. These dark and murky waters are still to be found as long as humanity retains its right to creative expression and development. Ours is the noble task of bringing to said waters the illumination of our language-which-is-to-come. Like a Ghost of Christmas Future gone good, this right and responsibility gives us a glimpse of the glorious destiny of our English language. So come with me, dear friends! Ingenuitize!<\/p>\n Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments below.<\/p>\n Peace out, <\/p>\n Andrew<\/p>\n P.S. – I’d love to get Gwyn’s take on this post. I would appreciate it if someone would forward it to her. I’ll post her reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, this is my confession, in little internet-residing digital pixels-bytes. I did, in fact, make up the word ingenuitized. I didn’t know a more appropriate word that would exactly convey my meaning in the specific type of sentence I was using with the wording and intent I had crafted around it. So, in the best … Continue reading On miscues and made-up words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}