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Inventing words is relatively simple as you do not need to actually make anything. We’ve already discussed making concepts by combining unrelated words in the post: Utopia, an Erotic Mystery – Used to Exemplify the Stretch Technique of Creativity and Invention. Inventing words is a little different and often comes up in the realm of trademarks. Trademarks are usually used for the name of a product of service.
I was a Patent Agent and Trademarks were along side so I have a little training on them. They should be suggestive but not descriptive. So you do not name your white staple invention, white staples. You would trademark it as Stealth – so we have Stealth brand staples. Now that is not making up a word but many people do for trademarks. Styrofoam, Kleenex. Kleenex suggests clean.
When making Web games or sites, sometimes you get a chance to make up words. Here are a few that I have made up:
- Gorgolon – an underwater civilization where the bubbles in their filtration system make a “gorgle”.
- Opartica – an online art maker
- Infizoom, Congon, Kitekilt, Choofu are combinations of shortened words for Motogami or motion games
- Gycopo is an acronym word for game you can only play once
- YesUmNo again a combination word for a voting game where you actually use the word as interface to vote yes, maybe (um) or no.
- Tilator – is a word plus an ending for a tiling tool.
Endings can be fun – we had an art movement called the Figmentalisticanarianismists. That reminds me, aside from names of things there are also words like traditional words where you are naming a concept:
- Nodism – is the philosophy of connection or nodes and in particular for a single hierarchy
- Focuso – the art of shooting photographs out of focus
There are words being invented all the time to cover our evolving experiences. There are a number of sites that foster this invention like wordspy. Some of these catch on better than others and the concept of memes is certainly related – memes also being a fairly newly invented word.
So have fun thinking of a word or two – often, as an Inventor, you need a name for your product or service or thought. If you have any words you would like to share, please leave a comment! I am currently inventing a technique to encourage more comments and will launch that here soon.
