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* In [[Vernor Vinge]]'s ''[[A Fire Upon the Deep (Literature)|A Fire Upon the Deep]]'', the first hint that a civilization has {{spoiler|been taken over by the Blight}} is that words like "armiphlage" and "clenirations" (representing concepts the translator AI can't handle) start creeping into its newsgroup postings.
* [[HP Lovecraft]] occasionally used words that, while real, were so archaic and obscure that they seem to fit this trope. Chief among these is "skyey" from ''[[The Colour Out of Space]]''.
** An even better example is "non-euclidean". It is a perfectly normal word referring to [
* In that it ''was'' a word before its popularization, albiet with a different meaning, J. K. Rowling's use of the word "[[Muggles]]" in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fits here. Having said that, "Muggle" became one of the more important terms in the series' mythology, as opposed to being a throwaway gag.
* [[Gene Wolfe]], in the ''[[Book of the New Sun]]'', uses a number of such words, mostly archaisms referring to things of the distant future [[Translation Convention|for which our current language doesn't have proper words]]. "Destrier," an old word for an armored knight's horse, is used for a bio-engineered creature that runs fast enough to allow '''successful''' cavalry charges against enemies with [[Ray Gun|"high-energy armament."]]
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== Music ==
* The [[Steve Miller Band]] speaks of the [
** Interestingly, the term may have been borrowed from The Medallions' "The Letter", which mentioned "the ''puppetudes'' of love" (and also coined the term "pizmotality").
* Lampshaded as [[MC Frontalot]] acknowledges that "possibleness is not a cromulent word" in "Nerdcore Rising."
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'''Alt Text''': Dukeicide is not a real word. }}
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' makes a [[Running Gag]] of applying this to [[Applied Phlebotinum|sci-fi gadgets]], starting with the Pumpkin Appearifier from ''Jailbreak''. Meanwhile in ''[[Homestuck]]'', the otherwise [[Grammar Nazi|linguistically stringent]] Jane is quite defensive about the cromulence of the word "shalln't."
{{quote| [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s{{=}}6&p{{=}}005592 "You are so glad that] [[Grimdark]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s{{=}}6&p{{=}}005592 is a real word, so that when things like this happen they may be described as such."]}}
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has [[Harry Potter|Millard Dynam Stoop]] trying to create a [[Significant Anagram]]:
{{quote| '''Lucius:''' [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080423 *gasp* s-s-Slorddly's not even a word!]<br />
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