What happens when you ask people to use a madeupical word?
Just another day at the Wordnik office … I make a rash bet that I can find examples of the word “macrotraditionalist” in use.
Conveniently, I didn’t say “prior use,” freeing me up to solicit help from friendly folks via Twitter.
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Dear Twitter, please help me win a bet. Please use the madeupical word “macrotraditionalist” in a sentence. You have 55 minutes. |
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@wiredferret was first … but misspelled “macrotraditionalist”. (Hey, it’s a new word …)
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@emckean I think we should worry less about micronutrients and concentrate on the macrotradionalist properties of whole food. |
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But @CymruLlewes jumped in with a factual (if vague) example.
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@emckean The macrotraditionalist viewpoint was introduced in the late summer of 2011. |
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Winning the bet for me. Thanks, @CymruLlewes!
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@CymruLlewes @emckean damn you Cymru! Now I’m a dollar poorer. |
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But the fun didn’t stop. More sentences! Some went with the “large” sense of “macro”:
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@emckean So-called “microchefs” eschew the portion sizes of macrotraditionalist cooking. |
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Lots of people writing about language fancy themselves to be macrotraditionalist purists, when in fact they’re merely macrostodges. |
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Just watching Inglourious Basterds, I love Quentin he’s such a macrotraditionalist rogue |
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@emckean The macrotraditionalist wasn’t going to make a fuss over getting a *white* picket fence for her house. |
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@emckean I’m a macrotraditionalist photographer; Give me a Nikkor Micro lens, not a button on a p&s. |
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Extra points for using the word “nuance”:
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@emckean the complicated rituals of exchange executed by the World Bank represent a macrotraditionalist observance of global economic nuance |
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I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that there really is a “macrotraditionalist” school of modern art:
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@emckean I only collect from the macrotraditionalist school of modern art curation. |
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Some clear blends of “macro” (in the computer sense) and “traditionalist”:
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@emckean Some use very complex function-key combinations to run their automated server routines, but Fred is a macrotraditionalist. |
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I write my excel macros in eXcel Macro Language and not in VBA because I am a macrotraditionalist |
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These seem to be using “macro” in the sense of “long”:
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@emckean integral to a church is its macrotraditionalist views. |
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@emckean In the macrotraditionalist sense, eBooks are already passe. |
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@emckean Professor Gawdawful took the macrotraditionalist view that the grand sweep of history, once learned, was all that was worth knowing |
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Current events seemed ripe for the application of “macrotraditionalist”:
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@emckean The debt ceiling is a macrotraditionalist fantasy. This isn’t hockey surgery. |
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@emckean When it comed to the debt ceiling debate my perspective tends to be more macrotraditionalist than centrist. |
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A nicely meta non-definition:
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@emckean The macrotraditionalist is neither a macro nor a traditionalist! There ya go, that was easy 🙂 |
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Some folks just don’t check Twitter enough, sadly:
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Tragedy. MT @emckean …Please use the madeupical word “macrotraditionalist” in a sentence. You have 55 minutes.
56 minutes ago |
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And there we have it … a new word!
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Big thanks to all you macrotraditionalist neologists out there — it’s a great word! (and even better I am now $1 up on @zeke) |
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