Occurs to me maybe I should make some kind of a "sticky" post, to make question-answering easy. I'll just update it as I add words.
Here are some words or abbreviations I've invented.
emerg*** — a lot of people think Phil invented this. That makes perfect sense: Phil's all over the emerg* movement, has written about it, has given talks on it, has lampooned it in PoMotivator posters. Heck, I'd think he made it up, if I hadn't made it up myself. The truth is, Phil's too smart to have invented it. I fabricated it, because I kept seeing Those Folks faulting people for saying "emergent" when they should have said "emerging," and vice-versa. Since to me the difference is largely historical and academic, I just came up with this convenient shorthand. Hardcore geeks will observe that I strictly should have said either emerg*, or emerg???. They'd be right, of course. Oh well, too late. [UPDATE: Stefan Ewing has made a credible claim to be the originator, and the earliest use I can find is his. Yet I have a really distinct memory of making it up. So either I haven't found my earliest use, or didn't notice his use and made it up independently later, or saw his and forgot seeing it. So... this is suspect as a DJPical neologism.]
HSAT — Having Said All That. I was using the phrase enough that a acronym seemed called for.
nomicophobia — irrational fear of any kind of law; knee-jerk dodge-reaction to anyone to mentions a commandment of God that you don't want to obey. Refusal to do anything unless it's on your terms. See further here.
obama — An empty thing onto which people project their own ideas, thoughts, fears and/or aspirations. See further here.
sarkicophobia — The fear of obeying God or doing anything for the glory of God in the flesh. A sarkicophobe would much rather disobey God outright, or do nothing whatever for His name, than do something "in the flesh." See further here.
Have I missed anything? Remind me, if so, and I'll expand.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Keep it up, and you'll soon be a certified neologist!
That'll look good on your resume'!
Ooh; but hopefully not a neologian.
BTW that link points to p. 283, but for some reason you land on p. 284. So... go up!
At least you didn't invent "aphronism."
I've always wondered the emerg*** asterisk thing meant. Now I know.
You also coined DV. (Is IMHO another one? Usually people say IMO, no? What about TIWIARN? Or is that Phil or Frank's invention, patent pending?)
I started a similar post at my blog here.
What I do whenever I come up with a new word in a blogpost is to link that word to my w-dictionary, and then add that word, its meaning, the date of first use and the link to where I used it first.
I have found this quite useful.
Susan, thanks, but no, none of those is mine. IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) is old; TIWIARN is (iirc) a Phil Johnson joke. I think Frank did a very forceful post at his blog about how nobody should waste people's time with "This is where I am right now" posts. Within days, Phil had one up titled - yep - "This Is Where I Am Right Now."
And it became a tag.
DV is also an oldie; I may have seen it first in Jay Adams, but Reformed types use the abbreviation for Deo volente to mean "God willing" (James 4:15).
Now you need to add "Franking."
LOL, oh my... how would I define it?
There ya go again, Dan--what is "iirc"?? (BTW, it's fun trying to figure out the Pyro triumvirate's neologisms--it's almost like deciphering some sort of mysterious codes. One doesn't always succeed, however.)
> what is "iirc"??
I'm torn between, "If I Recall Correctly, " and, "If I Really Cared."
"Franking" = the act of derailing
It's meaning seemed pretty simple in context ;)
(Aside: Wonder what A.W. Pink thought about pinking scissors....)
And thank you, Mesa Mike--that clears it up quite a bit! I think I'm leaning toward "if I remember correctly."
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