(from https://www.copyblogger.com/make-up-words/)
Shakespeare’s 5 Rules for Making Up Words (to Get Attention)
1. Change nouns into verbs (verbing)
Playing around with words drives language purists nuts, because it’s lazy to table an idea or shoulder the blame. . . But if you google “verbing,” you’ll realize this is a pretty common phenomenon and something we don’t need to be afraid of. Shakespeare certainly wasn’t. . . Cleopatra said, “I’ll unhair thy head!” and King Lear complained, “the thunder would not peace at my bidding.”
2. Transform verbs into adjectives
When you break a step on a porch, it then becomes a broken porch. Or when you filter your water during a backpacking trip, you can then relax by the fire and enjoy filtered water. . . And if your companion snores while he sleeps, you can kick him without fear of violating some law against assaulting snoring men.
3. Connect words never used together before
Many of the words you see in the introduction to this article are of this variety. . . Connecting words is probably the easiest and most entertaining way to make up new words, as seen in modern examples like: Afterclap, Cellfish, Youniverse. . . A method called portmanteaus blends the sounds and meanings of two words; blog is a truncated version of weblog (website plus log), and you also see this style in newer words like: Chairdrobe, Screenager, Jeggings.
4. Add prefixes and suffixes
The list of available prefixes and suffixes is long, which is one of the reasons the English language is extremely flexible. . . The term for this is agglutination.
5. Invent the word you need
Certain words just come out of nowhere. Thanks to Shakespeare, we have words like: Addiction, Lonely, Manager.
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