Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Wordsmithing

Ways I have made up words in my papers this semester:

celebrification - the making of a celebrity

panoptical, panoptic, panopticonal, panopticonic - academic ways of making "Panopticon" into an adjective

panopticony - Joss Whedon's way of making "Panopticon" into an adjective

Othering - making the Other in to a verb. To make into an Other.

Self-Othering - what these Othered groups do

Othered - making the Other into an adjective

1 comment:

  1. Heuristic is a favourite essay word of mine, and I have just made up "heuristicity."

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