‘Hoy’ is fine, but what about normal human conditions?

This year, OED has borrowed from Malaysia, Norway, Japan and Philippines. , Photo Credit: Getty Images

Once in dinner, I sat next to a person who turned to me, “Can I get some more juice?” When he meant gravy. Ignoring the kind of circles I move forward, let’s focus on more serious issues here. There is no word in the English language that describes such a person. Nor is one for people’s way of standing while examining the bookshell of other people.

Or for gesture when you see someone you think that you know and only to feel that he is a stranger and therefore extend your hand to finish your hair.

There are two ways to create new words (Dictionary does not recognize the obvious word for this: bewildered, rejecting it as a slang). The first is promoted by OED (not obsessive academic disorder, many of us, but Oxford English Dictionary). A word, usually taken from unnecessary, another language–and the king’s English in English, for example-and the king’s English. This year, OED has borrowed from Malaysia, Norway, Japan, Philippines. ‘Gigil’ comes from the last name (you can see it).

A second, more interesting way. Take a everyday situation or feeling in which there is no word to describe it, and then make one.

But popularized by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, this method has not been caught on it. Both these writers were on leave in Korfu, while Adams was working The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyHe saw that “there were spare words that do nothing their time, but tells about pointing in places on the sign”.

Douglas explained to his mission: “To bring these words down from the signPost and in the mouth of girls and sucking and so on, where they can keep their everyday conversations and make more positive contribution to society.” He wrote a book about it: A meaning of lif: a dictionary of things that have no words yetLater he wrote The deep meaning of LIFF.

OED, let’s face it, does not accept it or also recognizes the huge piece of human experience. For example, “What is the word for that part of a raincoat that comes out of a car after closing the door on it.” Use FladerbisterA word otherwise wasting its time on a signPost in Scotland, the authors say. And about the injury on the shoulder of a person who is often unnecessarily knight?

Adams and Lloyd recognize human conditions. Sometimes they are psychologically positive. “Like the word to stand in the kitchen, you were wondering what you went there.” Okay, you tell yourself, I am not the only one who feels foolish in such cases. Then there is a word for “alert movements towards the bathroom in the strange house in the dark”.

All of this very well “yoh!” Let’s move from South Africa and with it, but “What is the word for words that seem like sound they have a meaning, but not?”