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World Wide Words recently featured protologism: A word newly coined in the hope it will become accepted.
Ah, yes, like that time when a character on The O.C. (really, of all shows) claimed to have "A9.com'd" another character.
Consider protologism officially kenspeckled.
All content on kenspeckle.net is by Lauren Sperber (unless otherwise noted) and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Tech/design info available in my somewhat geeky geek notes.
"Kenspeckle" is an amazingly cool Scottish word meaning conspicuous.
Kenspeckle.net, a blog by Lauren Sperber, is meant to be "a humorous, hyperlinked look at language, internet culture, and anything conspicuous."
note: As a capitalistic homage to the OULIPO, I follow a formalist constraint for my affiliate advertising. I will only participate in affiliate marketing programs with names connoting unusual largeness.
