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Copacetic -- it was just invented as a fake word to mean OK, all clear
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
One of my proudest accomplishments was sneaking 'cromulent' into an official government report before it was mainstreamed into the dictionary.
There are no such thing as fake words, the only deciding factor of whether a word is "real" is usage, if enough use it, it becomes "real"
Bbrg mmhfm mufu pontiac.
Fair, but I think in the context of an etymology thread it's fair to say a word that came from nowhere, that someone thought they were inventing anew, is "less real" than all the origins at work here. But I appreciate the relativism, descriptivism, and hyanuboinism.
What's the last one? 😂
I've just invented it from no sources, but I've taken it to mean "intending to inform and correct a future misunderstanding, without correcting the present statement"
I don't have my IPA memorized, but in my accent I propose "high-annu-boyn-ism", in case anyone wanted to use it out loud.
I am sorry but you most certainly did not invent hyanuboinism, that is a very old and respecable line of scientific inquiry.
That was exactly how I guessed it would be said 😯
Maybe we're LONG LOST TWINS!!! 🙀
Makes me wonder what is a critical amount of people to use a word for it to realify
There's a fun thing called a "friendly language", which is any pseudolanguage spoken by a insulated group of 2 or more people, and not spoken by the outside group
That doesn't make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of.
But you're right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess
When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol
I always hated copacetic and I still do.