I used to think that only the words in the dictionary were the only words of speech. Now writers are not limited to just those pages, they have started making up their own words. In Greg Beaubien's words, writers make up words in order to be "cool." It's a way for writers to make something more their own. They not only have creative freedom to form sentences the way they want, but to add words with new exciting meanings.
Sometimes I think that it adds a new twist to someone's writing to create a new word, but I also think it can get confusing. If the writer makes up a word that the reader has never seen before, they might misunderstand the writer's meaning. I think that there is fine line when creating new words. If writers don't do it correctly and carefully, they might fail at what they are trying to achieve.
Beaubien mentioned several different words that writers have made up that have become a part of everyday language. Some of those writers obviously created words affectively because even I have used some of them in my daily speech. Luxe, bemused, and stakeholders are just a few words that are newly created words that have transitioned into everyday speech.
In 2009, Beaubien mentions that this trend of creating new words will pick up. New words like frisson and canny have already been introduced.
"But isn't it exhilarating to write, and read, words that have suddenly become popular?" Beaubien said. "They seem so fresh and novel."
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