{"id":1467,"date":"2010-01-03T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2010-01-03T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:12:27","slug":"do-you-speak-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Do you speak American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBS has an interesting\u00a0website on American English at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/<\/a>\u00a0that they title &#8220;Do you speak American?&#8221;\u00a0 One fun page at the site is an interactive quiz to see if you can match a speaker to a region of the country: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/seatosea\/americanvarieties\/map\/map.html\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Another page explains how various presidents have coined new words throughout the years, such as &#8220;administration,&#8221; &#8220;lunatic fringe,&#8221; and &#8220;misunderestimate&#8221;: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/words\/trackthatword\/\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0article refers to one who coins new words as a neologist.\u00a0 My reaction to reading that was &#8220;Oh, they meant to say lexicographer.&#8221;\u00a0 But, it turns out that PBS has the better word.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to my dictionary, a lexicographer is &#8220;a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.&#8221;\u00a0 However, neologize means &#8220;to make or use new words or create new meanings for existing words.&#8221;\u00a0 It would seem that a lexicographer is merely a person who records established definitions rather than the more creative neologist who coins entirely original meanings for words.<\/p>\n<p>A lesser known corollary to the lexicographer [sic: neologist]\u00a0rule is that a patentee is also entitled to be his or her own grammarian.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chicago Steel Foundry Co. v. Burnside Steel Foundry Co.<\/span>, 132 F.2d 812, 814-15 (7th Cir. 1943), cited in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jonsson v. Stanley Works<\/span>, 903 F.2d 812, 820-21 (Fed. Cir. 1990).<\/p>\n<p>*By the way, while playing SCRABBLE over the holidays, I tried to explain to my family that as a patent attorney, I was entitled to be my own\u00a0lexicographer [sic: neologist] when proposing new words on the board.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS has an interesting\u00a0website on American English at http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/\u00a0that they title &#8220;Do you speak American?&#8221;\u00a0 One fun page at the site is an interactive quiz to see if you can match a speaker to a region of the country: [Link]. Another page explains how various presidents have coined new words throughout the years, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}