words about words: a riddle wrapped in an enigma

i went on a wikipedia trail today. or, atleast the destination was wikipedia.
or atleast the stopping point which came from a trail that went something like:








and then I am reading an absolutely absurd entry about nonsense literature. it may be a wikipedia tangent, but the passage was pretty compelling and--there are better words and i may follow up to cover myself--its kind of a mindfuck; mostly because the word "nonsense" is used so frequently and is meant to explain. Isn't nonsense supposed to be something you can't explain?

see. that is the definition of a mindfuck.

i am linked to the idea of "neologisms"
a "neologism": a word, term, or phrase that has been recently created (or "coined"), often to apply to new concepts, to synthesize pre-existing concepts, or to make older terminology sound more contemporary.


so listed under this lengistic term "neologism" are neologisms in linguistics.
{the definition of a term led me to a term containing new terms}
so here is the word gold at the end of that long trail. Here are new terms for liguistic devices (thanks to wiki so this may just be complete bullshit but it IS rather well crafted so it IS rather worth our time:

2003's aptronym: An aptronym is a name aptly suited to its owner. A related phrase is nominative determinism, popularised by New Scientist magazine, suggesting, with tongue firmly in cheek, that people's life choices are influenced by their names. The distinction is subtle but fundamental: as post-hoc versus propter-hoc, so aptronym versus nominative determinism.
ex: Derek Jeter New York Yankee shortstop (Jeter is French for "to throw"); Thomas Crapper, manufacturer of Victorian toilets; Samantha Bond, a Bond girl in 4 films of the James Bond films, playing Miss Moneypenny

2004's snowclone: A snowclone is a type of formula-based cliché that uses an old idiom in a new context.[1] It is a special case of phrasal templates. It was originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different jokey variants by lazy journalists and writers." An example of a snowclone is "X is the new Y", a generic form of the expression "pink is the new black". In order to apply the snowclone, X and Y should be replaced with new words or phrases. For instance, this snowclone might appear as "Random is the new order", a marketing phrase for the iPod shuffle.

2005's protologism: newly invented words; a word created to fit a particular definition in hope that it will see further use. It is a prototype or a hypothetical projection of a new lexical unit before it may become current in writing or speech." It does not, however, appear to be regularly used outside this context. It might be better characterized as jargon.