Neologisms

Well, back to back posts on language and the evolution thereof! I am currently listening to Professor Piyush Kumar's interview on the ISB Radio and while the interviewer plays boring (to me, yes) music between questions, I decided to write this inspired by what Prof. Kumar said was one of his interests. Honestly, I didn't know that this is a big area of interest for so many people around the world. I frequently have fun with language with play on words, some go down with people as corny but I rarely do come up with some that people like. I didn't realize until today that these have an elegant name called neologisms. Apparently the word that won some award last year was coffee - the neologism being coffee is one who is coughed upon, coffer being the one who coughed, you get the drift... so let me try a few myself (Of course if someone else stakes a claim to these, I have just one thing to say to them - DILLIGAS?).

Abrupture - Sudden, what else, rupture
Brandismo - A strong pride in a company's own brand
Cafetearia - A place where you have coffee and have incisive discussions at the same time
Dogma - The mother dog
Entertrainment - The act of entering a train

Okay, I am sure these don't measure up to those that Prof. Piyush is working on or any others that serious neologians (?) come up with but given I came up with the above in under ten minutes, I am sure it ain't that bad.

For more on neologims, here are a couple of good sites -
http://www.neologisms.us
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1051598

If you want to explore more, just Google (LYDKIA!)