Let's invent a word
I was reading a book, a Christmas gift, and came across the word "perceptible." And then, two lines further, "resplendent." These words tickle my brain, in an archaic sense that recognizes I may never say these words aloud. These are reading words, and old ones at that. I enjoy the musicality of this vocabulary. It makes me wonder, how many words are we losing each decade, each generation, from our speech? What words did our parents say that have quietly faded, and are only captured and remembered in old videos and books? Of course, we add words each year too. That is how language works; it is a continual evolutionary process. We laugh, as we get older, at the words that get added to Webster's Dictionary. We think, "rizz" and "sus" aren't words! Now they are. That's the point. But as I look at the new vocab being added to our linguistics, I note a pattern of expediency. After all, "rizz" is shorthand for "charisma,...
