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.