Word Play
While it isn’t all that funny (or even punny), I thought I’d get the “word” (ok, ok, I’ll stop) out on this one. If you combine two words which both mean, roughly, “a bad thing has happened,” you’ll get a new word endowed with a more potent delivery of “a bad thing has happened.”
The idea is not a new one, combinations of two words are quite common in the English language. Consider “snowboarding” or “knockout” or “bandsaw.” Thinking up more exciting examples is left as an exercise for the reader. Regardless, the idea is this:
disaster + catastrophe = disastrophe
Unquestionably, this is a great, potentially useful word. Only problem is, nobody knows what it means. I don’t have high hopes for this spreading like wildfire (trying saying it aloud, something is missing or wrong), but perhaps there’s an improvement to it that I am missing.
Comments
Richard +1
If you spent all this time making up this awesome word and nobody used it, that would be a disastrophe!