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enschizophreniation and other coined words

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Today I coined the word enschizophreniation in an email advisory 'round the office. I meant it as in "to divide a single system into parts that behave differently and do not know of each other". I realize that split-personality disorder is not the same thing as schizophrenia, but couldn't think of a better word to enverbinate so.

I know, not as good as George W Bush's "misunderstanding" or "Hispanically", but you know a lot of good words are already taken and it's getting harder to coin words.

Though in my novel I use two words that I think I made up. One is dinwais, the other fartwander. The former is an acronym for "does not work as it should" while the latter is a short walk you take (e.g. away from the presence of other people) for the purpose of passing gas.