God bless

How would God Bless be a neologism in Ratology?

There are at least two ways to see God bless in Ratology...

Def. 1.  God bless as in the conventional sense of God bless.

Def. 2.  Ignorance is a bless.  God bless you, I or whoever with ignorance.   In other words, a more restricted kinda blessing.... 8-O lol

When do I use what?  Depends.

sesquipedalian

Sesquipedalian means the act of using a long word... polysyllabic.

"Sesqui" in Latin means one and a half.

"Pedis" as in pedal means foot...

One and a half foot is very long.

Modality

Following the logic of illocution, modality expresses the intent of the speaker or the speaker's degree of commitment to attributes of the expressed proposition.

illocution

In Latin locūtiō:the act of speaking, discourse; a way of speaking, especially shared by a subgroup of people;  an utterance, word, mode of expression.

The word loquī in latin means to speak.

Locution: a word, phrase, and speech; the style of speech.

Illocution: il- not; locution:word, phrase etc-->  Il-locution means "not" "words, phrases, etc."  Thus, illocution pertains not to the words, phrases, etc used but the aim or intent of the utterance.

Given the definitions... what is an illocutionary point?

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnIllocutionaryPoint.htm

Lingua franca

Just learned today.  Lingua franca is a language used by people with different mother tongue.   For instance, English is the Lingua franca.

Apparently, the original lingua franca came up around Renaissance era.  It was a mixture of Italian (80%), French, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Wow.. people in the old times are really polyglots.

Interlanguage- ratologism

Finally got down with the definition of "Interlanguage."

So, when someone tries to learn a second language, hypothetically, this interlanguage system gets created as the learner tries to get closer and closer to the form of the target language-- da second language.

The problem... experts say that you are out of luck if you start the process of really use da second language later than childhood...

Since I didn't start living in an all English setting till my early adulthood, guess I am entitled to da ratologism de moi? 8-O lol

pneumocephalic and pneumocephalon

What do I mean when I use the word pneumocephalic? 

I made it up years back because I put pneumo (i.e., Air; gas) and cephalic (i.e. related to the brain) to represent this other concept called "air head."  An adjective it is.

Only to know later that there is a health condition called Pneumocephalus where there is presence of air or gas in patient's cranial cavity.  

Since pneumocephalus is a proper medical term and people do suffer from it, I did not have the audacity to use the word pneumocephalus when converting my "pneumocephalic" to a noun.  Instead, I chose to use the word pneumocephalon.