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Example sentences for: neologism
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Even when we scorn yet another neologism with -athon , or ridicule a new -gate (as in Irangate ), or wince at alcoholic becoming chocoholic , it has already made us concentrate on language and refreshed our interest by whetting our humor.
Nowadays, of course, the overbriefed newcomers are orientated , a longer verb that sounds suspiciously like a back-formation from orientation . Similarly, derivate looks like an up-and-coming contender for derive . Proceeding analogously, a classmate of mine in junior high school once talked of improvisating, but somehow her neologism never caught on.
"Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."
' This 19th-century neologism was obviously derived directly from the -nd marker of the active gerund in Latin, which suggests the therapist (active agent) rather than the patient (the recipient, the one the treatment acts upon).
Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.