What
are Neologisms?
Report
1
Author: Daisy
Ramil
Co-Authors:
Tandi
Arakaki, Chad Honda
PSY 409B,
Fall 2008, Generation 28
Dr. Leon
James, Instructor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Class
Home Page
The
Republic of Neologisms, Thinkin’ Lincoln: A Weekdaily Webcomic By: Miles Grover
Introduction
As Generation 28 of PSY 409B The Unity Model of Marriage course taught
by Instructor Dr. Leon James, our
goal for report one was to create a Neo Report as a team, jointly by three students. Although one report was to be authored by
all three students, each student was to publish their own individual version of
the Neo Team Report in our own individual Web folders.
Before
taking this course, neither one of us in the group had much knowledge behind
the term “neologisms”. We were all
rather oblivious to the importance of neologisms in our class; more so to the
implications neologisms has on society.
Although Dr. James mentioned “neos” within the first weeks of class, it
was not until we were introduced to our first Neo Poem Challenge assignment,
which involved teams A and B generating a poem out of neologisms created by Dr.
James in his Introduction
to the Master Neochart article, that we all started to gain a better
understanding of neologisms.
In his
article, Dr. James defines neologisms as new words, expressions, or brief
sentences that a person creates because of a desire to describe an experience,
an opinion, a feeling, an ideology, etc.
We live in a society where we hear and use the same, constant phrases on
a daily basis. However, every day we
also create neologisms when we speak, even when we write, but because we are
unaware of the true concept of neologisms, we disregard them as just words and
sentences in conversation that will probably have little or no impact on
society after they have been said. Dr.
James’s article provided a list of neologisms, which he created, that covered
issues discussed in our Unity Model of Marriage course, his Driving Psychology
course, neologisms themselves, and random neologisms he created in thought and
conversation. Our own interest and
awareness of neologisms greatly increased once again when we were assigned Neo
Construction Poems, which involved each member in groups A and B to create up
to 8 neologisms and then combining them into poems, and Neo Fishing Poems,
which involved “fishing” or searching for neos created by other people and also
combining them into poem format.
Report 1, What is Neologisms? goes
in depth into our research and our increased understanding and knowledge of
neologisms throughout the course. We
provide a list of neologisms and a table that displays the data we collected
from those we surveyed in order to test the awareness of others towards
neologisms. Following the data and our
observations, we go into a discussion of Dr. James’s Introduction to the Master
Neochart article and follow up with our own interpretations and analysis of
research of neologisms found on the Internet.
This report that follows hopes to provide a clearer understanding of
neologisms through provided examples and research, as well as to show the
important implications of neologisms in our society.
Objective
After
selecting ten listed items from Dr. James’s Master Neochart and constructing up
to ten neos of our own as a team, we organized the neos onto a table listing
with a column showing our predictions of what we thought would be the average
ratings of our friends, actual responses of rater A, rater B, and rater C, and
the average of the raters, and finally a column that answered either “Yes” or
“No” to whether or not our rating predictions matched the average ratings of
our raters. We then compared our
predictions with the data we received from a few raters and reported and
discussed the data and results. We followed with a discussion on the Introduction to the
Master Neochart in order to make note of and determine how the awareness of
the role of the neos in society could potentially affect our lives and also did
some outside research on the topic of neologisms and reported that research as
well. Finally, we stated our
conclusions on our overall report on neologisms.
Neologisms: Rating Survey
Information
Definition: Neologisms = A new word, expression, or usage
which a person makes up. The word “neo”
is short for “neologism.”
The purpose of the survey was to test
whether those surveyed could determine whether the chosen 11 phrases or sayings
created by Dr. James and the 10 expressions created by our group were indeed
Neologisms. Our raters would rate each
saying according to the following rating scale:
Rate each item on
the likelihood that it is a neo:
1= the likelihood
that this is a neo 80% or higher (looks like a neo)
2= the likelihood
that this is a neo is around 50% (hard to tell if it is a neo or not)
3= the likelihood
that this is a neo is less than 30% (doesn’t look like a neo)
We then combined our own rating predictions and the actual ratings of
our raters onto a table.
Neologisms: Predictions
and Rating Table
|
Neos No. 1-11: Master Neochart No. 12-21: Constructed Neos |
Our Rating Predictions: |
Actual Responses Rater “A” |
Actual Responses Rater ‘B” |
Actual Responses Rater “C” |
Average Rating (of A, B and C): |
Did the responses match our predictions? Yes(Y) or No (N) |
1. Creation
and the universe exist for the purpose of fostering this
love between a husband and a wife.
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2
(averaged since all different) |
N |
|
2. Love (A) perceives through the senses (S) what
is usable for its fulfillment. |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Y |
3. Natural
marriages on earth are designed by God to foster the psychological growth
of our inborn conjugial character.
|
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
N |
|
4. Once the husband operates from the unity model,
he is establishing an organic entity called the conjoint self. |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
Y |
|
5. She receives the conjugial from the Lord
directly, while he does not. |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Y |
6. The
beginning purpose and the end
purpose of all creation is conjugial
love.
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
Y |
|
7. The love of our conjugial partner gradually
disengages us from the un-reality of selfhood as an individual. |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
Y |
8. The
natural marriage turns into a spiritual marriage as the
husband spends more of his time in the unity mood.
|
3 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
N |
9. The
principal love in the unity model is to maintain
intimacy at all three levels – sensorimotor, cognitive, affective.
|
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Y |
10. This affective conjunction is
reciprocal between masculine love and feminine love.
|
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
N |
|
11. This new conjugial couple is within a passion
of mutual love that intensifies and magnifies progressively to endless
eternity. |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
N |
|
12. The idea of reciprocals is soul mates destined
to conjoin in unity. |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
N |
|
13. In layer seven the lives of this man and this
woman are truly altruistic and conjugial. |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
N |
|
14. Only in the unity model can we completely
reciprocate with our soul mate. |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Y |
|
15. Through the unity model, spiritual marriages
that exist till endless eternity is a reality. |
2 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
N |
|
16. In the unity model, the man is no longer in
need to dominate her nor to be equal with her. |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
N |
|
17. In the unity model, he has the love to conjoin,
to make her happy, and to combine their souls. |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Y |
|
18. When soul mates are united by the unity model,
they will exist on earth and in heaven. |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Y |
|
19. Phase three of the unity model is when the man
accepts that marriage to the woman is forever. |
2 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 (average
since all different) |
Y |
|
20. The equity model is theoretically more sound
than reality because it is likely that the man will go back to the
male-dominance model. |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Y |
|
21. A man in the male-dominance model and equity
model is resistant to conjunction while a woman fights for it. |
2 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
N |
Discussions of
Group’s Neologisms
Our team as a whole was to construct up to 10 neologisms, either single
words, phrases, or short sentences.
Neos 12 to 21 on the previous predictions and rating table were our
constructed neos, mostly gathered from our previously assigned Neo Construction
Poems. Since we needed to incorporate
and concentrate on the content and purpose of the course, which analyzes the
Unity Model of Marriage, we constructed neologisms that focused specifically on
the Unity Model of Marriage itself. We
purposely incorporated crucial concepts discussed throughout the semester, such
as “reciprocals,” “conjugial,” “spiritual marriages,” “conjoin,” and “soul
mates” into our neologisms.
Unlike the Layer 9
Male-Dominance Model in Marriage where the man’s wants and needs are dominant
over the woman and the Layer 8 Equity Model where the man believes in the idea
of “universal rights” and equality with the woman, the Unity Model of Marriage
in Layer 7 is definitely an upgrade, for the man gains the unity mentality and
the man is motivated to love the woman by making her happy. According to Dr. James, “The wife’s
happiness is the pre-condition for the husband’s happiness.” The Equity Model is not guaranteed for it is
possible for the man to easily fall back into the Male-Dominance Model of
Marriage. In the Unity Model, the man
and the woman are created as reciprocals of each other so they can conjoin and
unite. When this model is achieved, a
couple is able to reach a spiritual marriage till endless eternity, which is
unlike a natural marriage of till death do us part. The spiritual marriage defines the marriage between a couple as
continuing into the afterlife. This
marriage is based on a conjugial love where the desire to be joined is present.
These ideas of the
Unity Model are highlighted in most of our created neologisms. Although this covers only a small portion of
what was discussed about the Unity Model throughout the course, we feel that
these ideas were essential to understanding the Unity Model of Marriage and
were ideas that were most interesting and most meaningful to us individually.
Comparison
of Predictions and Raters
Our predictions for our twenty-one
neologisms was either mostly number one (1) or number two (2) using the rating
scale shown in the table above with one (1) being the likelihood that this is a
neo 80% or higher (looks like a neo) and number (2) being the likelihood that
this is a neo around 50% (hard to tell if it is a neo or not). We did have a few number threes (3) in our
predictions but we felt most of them have never been mentioned and during our
searches we have confirmed that these neologisms by Dr. James and the ones
composed by our group where not used.
As for the three raters that we asked, they mostly responded with either
number one or number two for their responses to Dr. James neologisms and our
group’s neologisms. The response for
number three was small from the three raters because they also felt that they
never heard of these phrases or sentences.
Although the words used in the phrases and sentences were common words,
the chances of all these words being combined in these exact sentences, both
written and spoken, were highly unlikely.
The data that we gathered was
generally focused on our own predictions of the twenty-one different neologisms
composed from Dr. James’s Master Neochart and our own neologisms and the
ratings from three different raters.
The results that we gathered were eleven (11) “Yes” and ten (10) “No”
when we asked “Did the responses from the raters match our predictions?” The results were surprising with it being
almost even because we thought there would be more “Yes” compared to “No”. We felt that all these combinations of
words to produce these phrases and sentences were so unique to the individual
emotion that created them, that the chances of them being either written or
spoken were highly unlikely. The ways
that we concluded the results was taking the average of the three raters and
compare that number with our predictions to see if it had match or did not match
our predictions.
When asked why the raters gave
certain ratings, they claimed that they did not really understand the concept
of neither neologisms nor the ideas stated in the neologisms. We think that the reason they did not understand
the different phrases or sentences is because they were not knowledgeable about
certain ideas such as conjugial love, unity model, affective conjunctions, and
spiritual marriages. Like our raters,
these ideas were also new to us prior to taking this course and we believe that
had they understood some of these concepts, their ratings could have possibly
been different. Also, we found that
after continuously explaining neologisms and what they needed to do a couple
more times they mostly understood.
Other than the raters not fully understanding what needed to be done at
the beginning, we learned that the meaning of neologisms should be known to the
raters in order for them to give accurate ratings. Also, we think that it is important to give our raters some idea
of what the class is about and let them know what kind of information we are
looking for from them. The reason the
raters gave why they choose a particular rating is the same reason we chose our
predictions. If the rater thought that
no one would know or would have even heard of the words together in the phrases
or sentences, they gave a response of one (1) and if they felt that there was a
fifty-fifty chance it was heard before, they gave a two (2), and the rest,
ratings of three (3).
Discussion:
Introduction to the Master Neochart
The Introduction to the
Master Neochart, an article by Dr. Leon James,
an instructor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, discusses
neologisms and the history and evolution of the production of neologisms in the
science of psychology, particularly through the experiences of Dr. Leon James
himself. Dr. James discusses his process
in the discovery of neologisms and the importance of neologisms because of
their use and influence on our every day lives. The article also provides a definition of neologisms, which
incorporates the ideas of Swedenborg in his Swedenborg
Reports. The article helps to
expand our awareness and the positive affects of the role of neos in society,
as well as realizing how neos are the norm rather than the exception. According to Dr. James, every speaker,
writer, and thinker has the ability to produce neologisms as a normal by
product of speaking, writing, and thinking.
How does this expand your
awareness of the role of neos in society?
According to Dr. James’s article, neologisms, or neos
for short, are new words, short phrases or expressions, and sentences that are
created from a desire to describe a new experience, view, a concept, or an
ideology. These descriptions evolve
from the information available in a person’s memory and knowledge. These desires to describe relate to a
particular love, a love that wants to be explained and expressed. Love, the affective, generates sensorimotor
neologisms, which are the expressions of affection, by means of cognitive
neologisms. Every love or affection is
different and therefore it is impossible for any two loves to be the same. This is why love is called here an affective
neologism. Because every love is
different, it conjoins with a unique idea that is compatible for that particular
love. Thus, every statement and
expression that is elicited by a person can be considered a neologism. Consequently the study of neologisms is
similar to the study of speech acts and discourse. However, there is a difference between neologisms and expressions
even though our expressions are always unique.
According to merely appearances, words or phrases that are spoken by one
person may be re-circulated and another will speak the same words or phrases. However what makes each word or phrase
unique for each person is the actuality of what is being said in that
particular situation where all situations are unique; hence the actual content
or meaning of the expression is what becomes a neologism.
How does this potentially affect
your life?
It is unlikely for people to say the same exact
sentences, unless the sentences are the few common words that are repeated
expressions common in our lives. The
longer a sentence is, the more likely it is a neologism. Neologisms are always embedded in the sentences
people create daily. The expressions
people write about, think about, and say are never just random events, but
rather there is a specific cause to making it happen. To determine whether a neologism is actually a neologism, a zero
entry must appear when the word, phrase, or sentence is searched in Google or
Yahoo in quotation. When the entry is
zero, the word, phrase, or sentence is therefore a neologism, and thus an
expression never used. However, it is
also possible that other people have used the same expression, but it was not
documented in the World Wide Web. When
the entry is not zero, it is likely that others have used the identical
expression in the same way or in an unrelated sense. Neos come in any length for there are no limits to the number of
words found in a neologism. Most
neologisms consist of low probability combinations of words or phrases. According to Dr. James, “the probability of
an expression being a neologism approaches certainty in proportion to the
number of words it contains.”
Neologisms are new words and new combination of words
that are created when we are trying to find a way to express our ideas or
feelings and are therefore a type of record keeping and cataloguing. By collecting one’s own neologisms a person is
able to keep track of his or her own perceptions, insights, and experiences,
which are created by their own interests, values, and desires. From the article, we understand that
neologisms play a very important role in our society because the moment a new
word, phrase, or sentence is uttered, a new feeling and emotion or idea is
expressed. These new expressions allow
for thoughts to be shared and for them to become part of the human experience. We are surrounded by neologisms- they are
found in conversation, in writings, and in an individual’s thoughts. Dr. James’s Introduction to the Master
Neochart article shows us that through production and documenting of
neologisms, we can educate and enrich each other’s mental minds in hopes of
increasing awareness and possibly decreasing ignorance on issues, opinions,
experiences, and ideologies that are in our community and society as a
whole.
Dr.
Leon James: Introduction
to the Master Neochart
Discussion:
The Spiritual Significance of Neologisms
According to Dr. James’s article,
The
Spiritual Significance of Neologisms, neologisms also have a spiritual
significance. Neologisms can come into
existence in the mental world and remain there forever. There is also such thing as evil neologisms
where evil means the corruption of good as well as good neologisms, which come
from God. Evil neologisms are called
anti-neologistic forces in the mental world of eternity. The good neologisms that exist in our mental
world of eternity are real forms of cognitive good that is in our minds. The good in us comes from God’s good through
the spiritual sun therefore what is good remains God’s good. There is also what Dr. James refers to as
the trinity of neos. The trinity refers
to the soul, mind and body. Therefore
when we produce neos we can produce them in the soul, mind as well as our
bodies.
1.
The Trinity of neos we produce:
·
You
are producing an affective neo when you have a new love, intention, or motive.
·
You
are producing a cognitive neo when you have a new thought, plan, or principle.
·
You
are producing a sensorimotor neo when you have a new sensation, movement
pattern, or verbal expression.
2.
The trinity of divine human neos that God
produces:
·
God’s
divine love is within every affective neo
·
God’s
divine wisdom is within every cognitive neo
·
God’s
divine proceeding is within every sensorimotor neo
3.
The
trinity of Three divine Aspects of God’s neos:
·
God’s
affective organ comprises an integrated whole in which infinite loves and
purposes are present to eternity.
·
God’s
cognitive organ comprises an integrated whole in which infinite truths and
principles are present to eternity.
·
God’s
sensorimotor organ comprises an integrated whole in which infinite sensations
and motor determinations are present to eternity.
Neologisms are experienced by
each individual subjectively as new ideas, insight, and understanding of life
is developed. Neologisms bring new
consciousness and wisdom as well as new perceptions of the world into
reality. The word neologism in the
spiritual sense means “New Word” or a higher form of neologisms. Neologisms are created and born in the minds
of all individuals. The neos we
discover then become our mental children, which are indestructible and exist
forever in our mental world of eternity.
There is only one mental world that every human being
shares and is apart of. We are each
born into it and it will remain with us forever. The consciousness of self is life. This spiritual life is the life of our neos. Once we stop producing neos we cease to
truly have life and mentally we are dead.
Rather then creating new neos as our world around us develops our
consciousness then becomes stupid and ignorant. Death is the equivalent to hell and in hell there is no
production of neos. The neo is born in
our sensorimotor organ. Neos created in
the sensorimotor layer makes itself known to the world through our language and
words that are spoken, heard and even written.
The neo lives within the meaning of our verbal expressions when it is
spoken by the creator or written by the creator.
As Dr. James says, every time a
neologism is constructed by an individual, humanity’s intellectual evolution
expands and grows. Meaning every time
someone comes up with a new neologism, this means that our minds and our
surroundings are developing and growing.
New ideas are being created and discovered nearing closer and closer to
a new and greater excellence. Whatever
thought occurs in one person’s mind has an effect for every human being
alive.
Dr. Leon James: The Spiritual Significance of Neologisms
Research
on Neologisms
We seem to be living in an age where creating and
inventing new words is an ability anyone can accomplish. These new vocabulary words that have been
added to the English language are called neologisms. “Neologism” came from the
Greek word with “neo” meaning “new” and “logos” meaning “word”. However, it has not been accepted into many
common languages. The term “neologism”
was created around 1803. A neologism
is a new word, phrase or expression created by an individual. In psychology, neologism is a word used to
describe the use of words that bring meaning to an individual who uses them
independent of their common meaning.
Throughout the history of the English language countless words have been
borrowed from other languages and incorporated into our own. Neologism has a specific meaning to the
person who uses that neologism. Using
specific suffixes or prefixes to a word can create neologisms. It can be formed by abbreviations or even
acronyms.
Neologisms commonly occur in cultures that are
rapidly changing and where there is an easy and fast spread of
information. Neologisms are often
popular through mass media, interactions with people, the academic profession,
etc. and at one point, the phrases, words, terms, etc. that we use today was
our language of neologism. It can be
known as part of a language, but what was used before may not be used
today. Therefore, those words, phrases,
etc. disappear from common use. One of
the many factors that neologisms need in order to continue is the acceptance by
the public, published in dictionaries, etc.
But if a word, phrase, etc. is old or used in general, the word, phrase,
etc. will no longer be a neologism.
Neologisms may take a long time to be “old”. Having the public, culture, etc. have acceptance is more
important than the time it takes to become “old”.
Neologisms are often created by combining existing
words in which linguistics come into play or by giving
words new and/or unique suffixes or prefixes.
The use of portmanteau is used when creating neos when
for example you are trying to blend two or more words. There are also other ways to create neos,
for example, the use of abbreviation, acronyms or maybe something heard. The site “The International Dictionary of Neologisms”
gives some examples of some words or phrases that you might have heard of and
are indeed considered neologisms.
“naked
funeral” = describes the emotional sadness, when two lovers who are splitting
up, and knowingly have sexual intimacy for the last time.
“you
gon go?” = meaning “Are you going?” Example
in a sentence: “You gon go to the movie?”
Technology and
Neologisms
We also wanted to add how the
use of technology has allowed for better opportunities for the creation of many
different neologisms. We live in an age
where technology is all around us and we all use it in some form or another
throughout our day whether it be on a blog, text messaging on your phone,
writing an email, etc.
Nowadays, mostly everyone has
a mobile (cell) phone to communicate and to be in contact at all times. The use of mobile phones has created a new
way of creating neologisms because through text messaging and the use of I.M.
(Instant Messaging) it has becomes much easier to send short messages to your
friends, family, co-workers, etc. with the use of abbreviations. With the use of abbreviations you create
words that are not known in the English language. Therefore once you have searching Google or another search engine
with results ending up with zero those new words can be considered a neo. The terms themselves used for creating neos
such as “text,” “SMS,” etc. are abbreviations used by “texters” when sending a
message.
We found it amazing how “neos”
are being produced everyday by daily users of cell phones, PDAs, etc. and they
don’t even know they created a neo.
Texting has become the way for most people to communicate and knowing
how to use technology and knowing the different “neos” used while texting seems
to have become a must in today’s society.
For some people, texting has become a way of life.
·
Scientific neologisms
are words created to describe new scientific discoveries:
§
Black hole
·
Technological
neologisms are words created to describe inventions:
§
Videotape
§
Radar
·
Political neologisms
are words created to make some kind of political or rhetorical point, perhaps
with an eye to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis:
§
Meritocracy
§
Political correctness
·
Pop-culture neologisms
(which may be considered a sub section of slang) are words evolved from mass
media content or used to describe popular culture phenomenon:
§
Jumping the shark
§
Scooby Gang
·
Imported neologisms are
words originating in another language.
Mostly used to express ideas that no equivalent term in the native
language:
§
Zen
§
Mu
Assignments on Neologisms
Below are a few
examples of Neo poems that we have made up for class. These first set of neo poems were for our first Neo Poem
Challenge assignment and were picked from Dr. James Master Neochart at: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/neochartp1.htm. The assignment was to choose neologisms from
the chart that pertained to the course, combine it into poem format, and then
present it to the class for our team presentation in order to win a bonus
point.
Tandi Arakaki:
Sentential Neos
“A man is normally scared of the idea of unity with the same woman
forever”
“You can’t be good until you want to”
“What we choose from our own love remains forever as ours”
“We then continue immortal life in the mental world of eternity”
“They are then united to eternity as soul mates”
“Love invents what is pleasing to it”
“Love rules and creates all of a person’s eternal life”
“Every love has a built in power to consume itself”
“Love is consummated when it conjoins itself to a thought”
“Every love is unique, possessing some
unique feature of good, some unique virtue of quality”
Daisy Ramil:
Conjugial Love
“The beginning purpose
and the end purpose of all creation is conjugial love”
“Creation and the
universe exist for the purpose of fostering this love between a husband and a
wife”
“All other purposes in
the running of the universe are subordinated to this one purpose”
“The love of our
conjugial partner gradually disengages us from the un-reality of selfhood as an
individual”
“She receives the
conjugial from the Lord directly, while he does not”
“He must reciprocate
by conjoining himself to her”
“Hence it is that the
conjunction is possible between them, being in reciprocal loves”
“This new conjugial
couple is within a passion of mutual love that intensifies and magnifies
progressively to endless eternity”
“They absolutely adore
and live for this sentiment, feeling, emotion”
“The ruling love of
the highest mental layer in heaven is conjugial love”
The second assignment, Neo
Construction Challenge, was to create our own neo poems by making up
quotes. To check that our neos were not
used before, we used Google and other search engines to do searches by putting
the quote in quotation marks and making sure it results in zero (0) search
results. As part of the assignment, the
neos we created had to be limited to the topics discussed in our PSY 409b
course titled “The Unity Model of Marriage.”
All the different teams had fun creating their own neos and some of them
were even funny and/or sounded funny.
After doing this assignment we were amazed that we made our own quotes
and that nobody else ever said it before.
Below are some of our teams’ created neologism poems:
Chad Honda:
“Every love is its own, having some unique feature of
good or quality”
“Every
love has built in power to grow itself”
“Love gets through the senses what is usable for its purpose”
“Love grows to formulate a plan or method of attaining love”
“Our ruling love makes everything happen in our dream environment”
“The meanings we get and become aware of are those that are
selected by our love”
“We speak according to thoughts and feelings, which come from
love”
“When we are free, we will to think and to do that
which we love”
Daisy Ramil:
Soul mates
“It is a beautiful thought that when one is born, another is born for
him or her.”
“The idea of reciprocals, soul mates destined to conjoin in unity.”
“In layer seven the lives of this man and this woman are truly
altruistic and conjugial.”
“Only in the unity model can we completely reciprocate with our soul
mate. Through unity, spiritual marriages that exist till endless eternity is a
reality.”
“For the man is no longer in need to dominate, nor to be equal with
her.”
“He has the love to conjoin, to make her happy, and to combine their
souls.”
“Soul mates are united and will exist on earth and in heaven.”
Conclusion
An increase in neologisms is a clear indication of
our ever-increasing world of innovation and change. As we are developing and progressing, new words are necessary in
order to maintain and keep up with all our advances in technology, products, as
well as services such as the Internet.
In our everyday life we create new words, phrases, sentences, and even
paragraphs that we are not aware of that mean different things to different
people. Without neologisms we will
never move forward and discover new things.
In regards to neologisms in psychology, it helps by bringing new words
and meaning to each individual.
Neologisms contribute to the increase of new knowledge.
Neologism and how words, phrases, etc. are created
hasn’t been neglected, but keeping track of whether those phrases, words, etc.
are used, we believe has been the issue neglected. For example, say about ten years ago the word “goat” was created
and it was never heard of or used before, so the word “goat” was a neo but only
up to what maybe 5 years ago the word “goat” is now part of the English
language. The history of the word
“goat” has not been tracked through the past ten years knowing who said it
first or when it was first used in the English language. Of course, “goat” was created way before ten
years ago, we just used it as an example to show our point of the history of
words, phrases, etc. that nothing has been official documented.
We feel that neologism is an important issue that we
need to take a look at more because future generations, maybe one-hundred years
from now, may want to know how words we use today were created or if they were
created even before this current period we are in. Of course, keeping track of all words, phrases, etc. would be
really hard to do and what Dr. James mentions in his “Introduction to the
Master Neochart” about searching Google and Yahoo, checking these search
engines might be the only way to confirm if something we say has already been
said before or used by someone else.
The use of neologisms is a totally new concept for
our group because we never heard of it before taking Dr. James’s class. But now that we know what neologisms are we
are more aware of what we are saying because we can come up with new phrases,
words, sentences, etc. that has never been created before. With the use of these new phrases, sentences,
etc. we create, there can be a change in the way we talk to others because the
same phrases or sentence can mean two different things in English and in
Psychology.
Advice for Future Generations
To all future students of Dr.
James’s PSY 409b: The Unity Model of Marriage class, we strongly recommend that
you start working on your homepage for the course once Dr. James has assigned
it to you and also upload your reports as soon as possible. If you are only slightly familiar or not
familiar at all as to how to create homepages, we strongly recommend that you
again start early and get help from Dr. James, friends, co-workers, or anyone
you know that knows how to create homepages.
Although Dr. James gives step-by-step instructions, it is very tricky and
each format for uploading is different.
If you have a Mac, we would suggest that you use a Windows based
computer because it makes things easier in terms of creating the homepage and
uploading and downloading your files.
However, if you love and know your Mac pretty well and know how to
create WebPages using your Mac then please go ahead and do so. We found that during the process of creating
our own homepages and reports it was a lot easier to use a PC when it comes to
saving files as WebPages and uploading it to the class website. If you never created a WebPages before, this
is good experience because other classes that you might take in the future may
require a WebPages of your own or even to share a WebPages with your follow
classmates. Therefore knowing how to
create one will come in real handy.
With the way technology is expanding it seems inevitable that one day
everything will be on the internet and papers will be of no use.
From what we saw and experienced in
this class and in other classes that required some kind of WebPages design,
students who are not familiar with creating WebPages eventually dropped the
course because they did not know how to create one. Also, since they were not familiar with assignments, reading,
etc. that were all posted on the class homepage which is where all the
information is located, they dropped the course. But knowing how to create a WebPages will only benefit you now
and in the future. The topic of the
course might stand out to you and you may ask yourself “neo,” “marriage” etc.
and it is highly likely that you will question what this course is all
about. This might scare some students,
but taking this course gave us a new look as to how we view marriage and opened
our minds to the world of neologisms.
After you take this course you might just catch yourself saying a brand
new word, phrase, or expression and then you’ll say, “Hey, that’s a neo!” We know that we have.
Another piece of advice for future
generations is to know and understand the Threefold Self and the Twelve Layers
of Mental Anatomy, as well as follow along with all the new concepts covered in
class discussions and in readings.
Knowing about these things will definitely help you better understand the
course and will make it much more easier for you to actually do your own
presentations and reports. Always ask
questions and try to relate what you learn to things that have happened or are
currently happening in your own personal life.
This definitely helps to create a better understanding of the material
and also keeps you entertained and interested in class. Just read Dr. James’s Lecture Notes, keep up with the readings
and assignments for the course, and participate in the class discussions and
activities and you’ll be all set. Good
luck!
References (APA format)
1. Fowler, H.W. The King’s English. Retrieved Nov. 16,
2008, from http://www.bartleby.com/116/103.html
a.
This is a book by
Fowler and in chapter one of the book, titled “Vocabulary” it talks about how
words came about, how they were documented, etc. and he mentions neologism and
how different phrases, words, sentences, etc. are created. It also gives examples of neologisms.
2. James, Dr. Leon. Introduction to the Master Neochart.
Retrieved Nov. 5, 2008, from http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/neochartp1.htm
a.
This is Dr. James’s own
site about neologisms and how he created them.
He gives a great background about neologisms, how they are used, what he
created from when he started till today, etc.
This is a great site to get started with neologisms and find out
information about what it is and how to search if you created a neo.
3. James,
Dr. Leon. The Spiritual Significance of Neologisms. Retrieved Dec. 7, 2008,
from
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/neologisms3p2.htm#trinity
a. This is Dr. James’s site concerning the
spiritual aspect of neologisms. This
site gives great information about where neologisms are located and where they
come from. It also gives examples of the Trinity of neos.
4. James. Dr. Leon.
The Unity Model of Marriage Fall 2008 PSY 409B class. http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy28/classhome-g28.htm
a.
This is our class web
page that shows our team presentations, lecture notes and our class folder for
everyone’s homepage and their reports.
5. Neologism. History of Neologism. Retrieved Nov. 11,
2008, from http://www.public-domain-content.com/encyclopedia/History/Coined.shtml
a.
This site gives a
general overview of neologism and the history behind it. It also lists different types of neologisms
and what they are used for. For
example, “scientific neologisms” are words to describe new scientific
discoveries. This is a very short and
to the point site on neologisms and its history.
6. Neologism. Wikipedia. Retrieved Nov. 10, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism
a.
As we all know
Wikipedia is like the free version of an encyclopedia and generally reliable
with the information it posts but it gives a general overview of neologisms and
its history. The information on this
site was very helpful and gave the information for our opening paragraph under
the “Research of Neologism”.
7. New Words: Neologisms. Retrieved Nov. 8, 2008, from http://enjoywords.com/neologisms.html.
a.
This site was able to
give us a little history about neologisms as well as its origins. It gave us a few examples of neos as well as
how the words came about and why. This site also explained how a new word or
neo could eventually become a “regular” word over time as more and more people
use it.
8. The International Dictionary of Neologisms. Retrieved
Dec. 3, 2008, from http://www.neologisms.us/
a.
This site gives new
neologisms that we submitted and a general overview of neologism.
9. Compound (linguistics). Wikipedia. Retrieved Dec. 3, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_noun_and_adjective
a.
This site talks about
neologisms and how linguistics is used in the forming of neos. It gives examples of compound words,
phrases, etc.
10. Portmanteau.
Wikipedia. Retrieved Dec. 3,
2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau_word
a.
It gives a definition
of portmanteau and how the use of it can create neologisms. It also gives some history of how things
originated and formed.