why do poeple try to make words up

it realy gets on my nervs when people cant ryme a word so they just "make one up" does this t any one else off????

becomes sometimes the words that exist aren't good enough. Yeah, even Shakespeare made up words. For example the word midnight was never used before Shakespeare included it in his plays.

I don't believe he is talking about words that some of the greatest poets of all time have made popular or atleast words today. Words like evermore and midnight actually make sense and can be read. I think he is talking more along the lines of just throwing in some extra letters at the end of a word to make it sound like another. That would most definately be making a word up and there have been a few poems I've read with this kind of thing tossed in. Yes it makes me angry, very few poets on this site that I have seen can make there work rhyme on a consistant basis, there is nothing wrong with that because poetry isn't all about rhyming. In my eyes however if you can take a poem that doesn't rhyme and change a few words (real words) and make it rhyme the poem is 1000 times better for the reader and you cannot disagree. Karl Wild

thank you karl wild

they want recognition for the future as a memory of the past

I think making up words is what makes poetry so special. If everyone used plain, bland, boring words in poems, they probably wouldn't be as beautiful. One of my friends and I have made up a huge list of mad eup words that we use all the time, just to express what there aren't words for.

ok things like this

there was a guy,
who liked to cry,
over his lost dog,
walking in the fog,
he looked down,
with the biggest frown,
muttered in a low voice
im sick of all this toice

its stuff like that is what i mean

**just another guy**

hehe... toice. some words that people make up actually become real words. have you ever heard of "Frindle"? its a great book where a kid makes up a new word for pen, and he keeps using it until it gets to the point where every kid in the school is using it, his hometown becomes "Home of the Frindle", and the word gets put in the dictionary. sometimes its not such a bad thing.

anyway, to answer your question, it doesnt bother me when people make up words for poems, because your mind will create a word to replace it and itll make sense.

I agree, as long as the new word makes sense. Grammer and spelling mistakes DO bug me, though.

Words are a human creation. Humans will continue to discover new things. Therefore, words are endless.

A dancing soft naked body
with painted brown eyes
underneath cool blue skies
rare laughter
deep dreams
long dark shining hair,
wraps around her pleasures
when will she be free
to waste her words
when will she live
in tranquil
this is her will
to be who she is
this is her time
to relapse into wilderness
she lives the sunshine
to be the shrine
of solitude
and clarity

I've messed with words so they would rhyme. Such as tranquil in this poem.

Making up words is fine within the right context. Making up a word for lack of imagination, vocabulary..sure, that is a negative. I make up words however, when I know perfectly well, I could use another word, but the one I have created seems to have just the right meaning I intend to deliver.

As Bob said, Shakespeare made up hundreds upon hundreds of words. Sometimes words in a dictionary are not enough.

It's called 'Poetic License' but I think it's stupid. People should be smart enough to use real words.

^ It isn't a question of intelligence.

That's a type of poem, actually.
I forget the name of it. ;/
But, I wrote on in middle school.
You combine words, or make up your own to form a poem.
Not every word, but a few words through out the poem.
It was quite fun and interesting.

I use made up words. Actually all words were made up at some point or we wouldn't have any. Bafoon, annoyancy, caffeiniac and most used by me "guesstimate" are made up words, yet most people know what they mean. How is this so if infact they are not words? When you say not words you must mean not in the dictionary. Some made up words are self explanatory as my examples above.

I think it is creative and sometimes amusing. My husband and I make up words like he may tell me he is Hangry (hungry and angry)

And I once told my husband after he ate some skittles that his breath smelled like shittles (you can figure this one out).

The toice example is a little outrageous though....

"why do poeple try to make words up"

...well I could ask you why the sky turns pink.

I guess desperation calls for all sorts of measures