Wednesday, May 24, 2006

umm, that word doesn't exist...

now i know this title seems a little rich coming from me, seeing as i frequently make strange sounds and pass them off as words (like 'squirkle' and 'specicular') but this has really been bothering me lately! see the deal is this:
i am currently in rehearsals for a workshop production of a show which my singing teacher and his partner have written. while reading through the script recently i came across a word that doesn't actually exist, and it's been driving me up the wall every time i hear it! now, please, if i'm wrong TELL ME so i can stop obsessing about it, but as far as i'm aware, there is no such thing as "christianizing". right?? i mean, i understand the concept behind it, but i'm fairly sure the actual term "christianizing" is entirely new to planet earth.
and here's the really irritating part:
i can't do anything about it!!
i know that i really should stop the next time it is said and say 'hey, mr director? yeah, you made up a word...FIX IT PLEASE!'
BUT mr director is just precious and protective over his script that i have the feeling he might tear my head off if i tell him he did something wrong
So here is my grand plan:
the whole deal with a workshop performance is that we invite our most opinionated friends, and they can write down feedback for us, and then the writers take home all the feedback and fix any apparent problems with the show - SO i think if i filled the audience with my most opinionated friends (i have a lot of them... you know who you are) i'll get them all to write down "yeah, the show was great, but i coulnd't help but notice in the first act there's a word that has never before graced the surface of our fair planet..."
wise, no?

i do like making up new words though.
i think specicular is my favourite.
it happened totally by accident - it's like in the movie 'mean girls' where lindsay lohan's character goes to say great and cool at the same time and comes out with 'grool'? yeah, i got half way through saying specific and decided i'd rather go with particular - hence, 'specicular' came into being.
the story behind squircle is somewhat different.
we tried to confuse carly with it, but dazz and ash FAILED ME!

i'm rambling again...

OK so if you could make up any words, what would the be and use them in a sentence!

night
kate x

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