My friend protests my creation of new words: peoplehood and reshalomification are two of the offenders.
Although I cannot cite them to justify my own onslaught on the English language, Lewis used poethood, while Chesterton used topsyturvydom many times. In his "The Dragon's Grandmother" Chesterton pulled out pumpkinity -- the whole phrase is infinitely protracted pumpkinity. Oh my.
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Tell your friend it has been a lifelong obsession for you to create new words...even a whole language!
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