Neologizer wanted
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Paul Ford, "It is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are!", The Message 5/30/2014 ("Our venture-funded vertical-driven content prosumer phablet platisher is rapidly growing and we need to add some Ninja Rockstar Content Associates A.S.A.P. See below for a list of open positions!"). One of the openings:
Are you a native full-stack visiongineer who lives to marketech platishforms? Then come work with us as an in-house NEOLOGIZER and reimaginatorialize the verbalsphere! If you are a slang-slinger who is equahome in brandegy and advertorial, a total expert in brandtech and techvertoribrand, and a first-class synergymnast, then this will be your rockupation! Throw ginfluence mingles and webutante balls, the world is your joyster. The percandidate will have at least five years working as a ideator and envisionary or equiperience.
Some of the better nonce blends I've come across recently: derptastrophe, triangutards. You?
Shimon Edelman said,
May 31, 2014 @ 8:37 am
Hey, Stanislaw Lem has been there before! See the entry on CRETILANGUISTICS in his "Imaginary Magnitude": http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/lem_prognolinguistics.html
D-AW said,
May 31, 2014 @ 9:55 am
They must have spent a fortune outsourcing that add to freelance neologists (who, naturally, would be unsatisfied with "neologist"). The pro-neologism Jefferson knew all about this: "Give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us..it’s [sic] adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, [etc.]" A little while ago I posted on what to do if you don't yet have words for new words or their coiners, here: http://poetry-contingency.uwaterloo.ca/new-words-for-new-words/
D.O. said,
May 31, 2014 @ 11:05 am
There are two longish strings of English words "then come work with us as an in-house" and "will have at least five years working as". Anyone has an idea whether it is simply a slip-up or there is a reason for that?
quixote said,
May 31, 2014 @ 1:17 pm
And the clincher for verisimilitude, at the end in plain English:
"All positions are unpaid."
Pflaumbaum said,
June 1, 2014 @ 4:03 am
There seems to me to be a major spike in portmanteau creation/use in the media – recent, increasing in frequency and predominantly AmE.
Have I succumbed to three Zwickyan Illusions at once?
hanmeng said,
June 1, 2014 @ 7:27 pm
@Shimon Edelman,
That must have been hard to translate from Polish.
Pan Gadajski said,
June 2, 2014 @ 3:42 pm
@Shimon Edelman,
Stanisław Lem is what makes me thankful for being a native speaker of Polish. Thanks for the link, I've never read him translated into English. Seems like an amazing piece of translation, actually.