Thursday, May 11, 2006

Invented a word

Editing my Yahoo profile, I had to fill "Occupation".

Water engineer does not really convey what I am and and what I do. So I wrote:

Combobulator.

Then I wrote a plausible definition of Combobulator in the Wikipedia.

I am sure some overzealous pedant will point out that Combobulator is not my invention, it was already employed in 1890 in Klondike by Mark Twain. I dont know about Mr Twain, but this world is "mine".

There are several words in Hebrew that are "mine". I am most proud of "shidrug". I was writing an article on Herzliya WWTP upgrading, and the nearest Hebrew word I could came up for upgrading was the biblical "kfitzat derech" (short cut - also used in Dune) or "kfitzat madriga" (jump in the stare). So I invented this new word, shidrug - upgrading, that was so needed that now everybody has adopted it.

If I only could collect royalties ...

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