Dragaera

Goblets, Emperors per Reign

David Silberstein davids at Kithrup.COM
Tue Mar 23 23:21:36 PST 2004

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Silberstein wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote:
>> >
>> >Wellborn had going on (perhaps a dalliance himself) that led him to
>> >placify [coinage] T on this matter.

>> Excuse me, do you have a license to neologoificate?  I thought I was
>> the neologoificator around here.
>
>
>My dear sir, I wouldn't dream of impinging upon your territory.  I
>have a poetic license, which allows me a certain freedom with words
>(for example, after a hummingbird perching on a sage stem takes wing,
>"the dry seed-pod pendles a few seconds"), at least within reason, as
>recognized by UN Resolution 2112 subsection C and the better class of
>Scrabblists. 
>

You are entirely correct [1], and I withdraw my captious criticism.

[1] Poetic license includes neologism, portmanteau, malapropism for
whimsical effect, the fractal folds of the unabridged dictionary
(classical, archaic and obsolete usages), borrowings from any extant
language, and in general is far more reaching than any piddling, minor
panautoauthoritization for neologoification.