by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:32 pm, January 24th
As a geek or nerd, you get introduced to new words all the time! Science fiction and fantasy are practically in the business; not just of creating new place names, which is a given; but also of making new nouns in general, new verbs, and new adjectives. And while some of those concepts might not be particularly useful outside of their fictional setting, others have, over time, been accepted wholly by the English of reality.
Big Brother
Cyberspace
Muggle
Robot
Ansible
Grok
Frak
Utlanning, Framling, Ramen and Varelse
Poozer
Shiny and Ruttin
For explanations and definitions, please read the whole article at The Mary Sue:
http://www.themarysue.com/6-made-up-nerd-words-that-made-it-to-common-usage-and-8-that-should/?pid=623
As a geek or nerd, you get introduced to new words all the time! Science fiction and fantasy are practically in the business; not just of creating new place names, which is a given; but also of making new nouns in general, new verbs, and new adjectives. And while some of those concepts might not be particularly useful outside of their fictional setting, others have, over time, been accepted wholly by the English of reality.
Big Brother
Cyberspace
Muggle
Robot
Ansible
Grok
Frak
Utlanning, Framling, Ramen and Varelse
Poozer
Shiny and Ruttin
For explanations and definitions, please read the whole article at The Mary Sue:
http://www.themarysue.com/6-made-up-nerd-words-that-made-it-to-common-usage-and-8-that-should/?pid=623
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