I awoke this morning to find that Scott is now telling us that he lied, and the words at Enlumine (the site I posted about last night) are not, in fact, real words. I beg to differ.
First, it was rather obvioius that the words in question were not of the order of, say, “dog”, or “catharsis”. The fact that Scott made them up does not make them any less real. In fact, I had actually thought, based on the contextual examples given, that most of the words were “made up” by authors of fiction (nobody would seriously believe that “osculathe: A machine on which a kiss is held & spun while being shaped by a fixed cutting tool” would be found in the OED, would they?) . I suppose that’s a bit of a compliment to Scott, who is a good writer in his own right. The words are useful, and they are available, and as such they are real. I will use them, because they demand to be used.
