What is the one expression for fictitious words becoming widely adopted in reality?
Occasionally, a fictitious (sometimes deliberately so, sometimes as a word to describe a new concept) word finds popularity in the real world.
Famously, Shakespeare introduced a number of such previously-fictitious words into the English language, including “elbow,” “eyeball”, “mimic,” and “arouse,” which had few recorded appearances before their debut in his works.
The Simpsons introduced the words “cromulent” and “embiggens” as part of a self-referential gag in the early 90s, and these words are now appearing with their presumed meanings in various places around the internet. Is this an article I was supposed to write about cromulent or other insult? Or maybe it’s just me?
15W 11B router. It was a perfectly cromulent router for its time. But those were dark days, friend, dark days indeed.
Does this kind of permeation of made up words in the vocabulary have any kind of associated expression?
If you are currently on a budget, why don’t you leave your word alone?
Paul Dickson, an American writer on language and culture published a book in 2014 in commemoration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. In this he discussions the history of literary neologism, which is new words which have a literary origin.
Then he coined a word for literary neologism, which is the term of the term for all, and also for the term “the language” he referred to. Who invented the word authorism? As far as I know, dictionaries have yet to respond to this new word so, for now, literary neologism may still be preferred by some.
Is the phrase
most commonly used as such?
When words are entered onto the lexicon,
they gain usage. The more advanced or new words, the more meaning will be. Lexicalization
is the process in which new words gain widespread usage.
