Most teenage boys go through a stage where they store all their clothes in their 'floor-drobe'. As soon as I heard that word, it entered my vocabulary and has never left. It captures the idea so perfectly, and it's oh so memorable.
Benny Pfahlert always talks about Australian works based salvation as, 'nice-ianity'. Again, it's a great word for the same reasons.
I've come across a couple more lately, which I hope stick in my brain.
A holiday at home is a 'stay-cation'.
The way most jobs are allocated in churches is someone is 'volun-told'.
Do you have any new words?
Another Phalertism:we are to be 'great commissionaries'
ReplyDeleteBenny has a thousand of them.
ReplyDeleteOne for us Apple devotees: Apple-pious (first heard on The Colbert report)
ReplyDeleteHey Izaac, how are you doing? You get lots of interesting new words in a language when they take on words from other languages (which is what English has been doing for centuries). But these days lots of English words come into Spanish. Like, instead of tracksuit pants, here they are called 'Joggings'- are you wearing your joggings today? Its not really the same as your examples above, but it is interesting to listen to!
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
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