Perfectly Cromulent Word: Difference between revisions

 

[[Trope Namers|Named]] for the above-quoted exchange from an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. (Incidentally, the word ''embiggen'' was later used in a completely cromulent paper on string theory. It's on page 31 [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0610/0610212v2.pdf here]).

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

** A few years ago, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. [[Top Gear|Richard Hammond]] deemed this to be a load of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|shiny and bright]].

* A recent [[Green Lantern (Film)|Green Lantern]] themed cell phone commercial describes its internet surfing as "faster-er."

{{quote| '''Charlie Brooker''': I used up every negative word known to man to describe John Barrowman's 'Tonights the Night' so when 'Totally Saturday' came along I was forced to invent the word 'Shittifying'}}

* In the ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' episode ''The Fifth Race'', Jack begins using seemingly made-up words, albeit without realizing he is doing so. As it turns out, {{spoiler|he's speaking Ancient.}}

** Also, "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Whuck...?]]" from Liz.

*** Another one from Liz: snert, a simultaneous sneeze and fart.

* A common occurrence in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]''.

* [[Victorious]]-"Oh my God, she's having heart confarctions!!"

 

 

 

== [[Theater]] ==

* [[Shakespeare]] is famous for this. Google it. Of course, there is some argument as to whether he was the first to use the words, or simply the first to write them down. Due to the vast number of words he "made up," it seems likely that it's some of both. Due to his creativity with the language, he has had perhaps more influence on English than any other individual.

* The ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]'' musical has a number of these being used by corrupt headmistress/press secretary Madame Morrible, including "definish" (as in "definite"...ish), "braverism" and "surreptitially". This [[The Barnum|suits her character]] well.

* ''[[Skippys List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

{{quote| 128. [[Cannibal the Musical|"Shpadoinkle" is not a real word.]]}}

 

 

** And the gaming industry practice that they describe as the [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/12 bullshot].

** Gabe stumbles into a cromulent word while [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/18 trying to cheat at Scrabble on his smartphone.]

* Yeager in ''[[Nodwick]]'' managed to invent an Eighth Deadly Sin - which he duly termed Blasphotrociterra-o-rama.

* [http://xkcd.com/739/ Malamanteau] is a perfectly cromulent word, though ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' disagrees.

{{quote| '''Peter Griffin:''' A degenerate, am I? Well you're fastezio! See, I can make up words too!.}}

* An entire episode of ''[[Recess]]'' revolves around T.J. making up a new word ("whomp", as in, "Man, this whomps!"). He is punished, because most of the adults assume it must be a 'bad' (dirty) word. In truth, he made up the word as a minced oath so he wouldn't get in trouble anymore. After a good deal of irony and courtroom antics, it's decided that the word is up to anyone's interpretation since it was made up, and "Those who think it has a dirty meaning probably have dirty minds to begin with."

{{quote| "Yzmopolis, There's no Stopolis!" "Hey that's not a word" "It is to me!"}}

* Happened in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', where the Buddy Bears try to make the show more educational by interrupting an otherwise "normal" episode to provide trivia on anything that came up in conversation. Irritated, Garfield asked them what they knew about "gazorninplats", and after they're unable to find any information on it, they give up and leave. It backfired at the end of the episode, when G&F was "cancelled" for ''The Gazorninplat Hour''.

** In part 2 of ''Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves'', Roy is refusing to kiss Snow Wade so she wakes up, but then reads the story and is happy to do it because he learned he gets "20 million gazortniks".

{{quote| '''Roy''': I don't know what a gazortnik is, but 20 million of ''anything'' makes ya filthy rich! }}

** Gets a bit of a [[Call Back]] in season 2 premiere "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|The Return of Harmony, Part 1]]", when the Cutie Mark Crusaders have this exchange (for added fun, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are Applejack and Rarity's respective little sisters):

{{quote| '''Applebloom:''' Cool! ... If you were actually ''victory-ful'' at something.<br />