Future Words
My very good friend, Dave, shares a love of words and language with me, as do some of my other compadres. I've been drunk enough to mangle some words, at time to great effect, but every once in a while, sober, I find the need to "invent" a word to better express an idea. Usually this word, I find, is so necessary, that I make it a personal agenda to use this word as often as possible to introduce it to every day, public use (a recent example is uniquity, as opposed to the clumsy and too pedestrian uniqueness).
On his website, Lexiphane.com, Dave has come up with a new word himself--one I plan to infiltrate into to my day-to-day dialogue--and you should go his article on Lexiphane.com to see what it is. I think it is a good one:
fauxmantic, fo-MAN-tik, adj.: describing behavior giving the false impression of romantic intimacy where none exists. "His fauxmantic tendency to touch her knee during conversation at the party deterred other men from interrupting them, as they assumed the pair were a couple."Variations are acceptable and highly useful. "She fauxmantically (adverb) whispered in his ear to drive his ex-girlfriend crazy." "He was a born fauxmantic (noun) who nonetheless always wound up going home alone."
Let him or me know what you think!
