Do you ever get the jeelys? Or perhaps you are frequently overcome with the urge to relard? Maybe you just need to engage in some insantics before you get bonusfried, and become an utter failboat.
If this sounds like you, you’ll want to check out The Pure Imagination Dictionary, where WEbookers are coming together to create new words out of the discarded parts of old words. The Pure Imagination Dictionary is so much fun, I contacted Project Leader Kaoru to find out where she got such an incanidea. (That one’s my very own – bright idea, of course!)
Kaoru explains it all:
“Rebecca_Grey is my coworker at a call center. We sometimes have anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes between calls. It turns out Rebecca_Grey and I both like to write, and for entertainment during the dead times at work, we would make up words for things that really have no adequate description. She started us off with funsies. Then I came up with obnoxicity to describe one of our callers.
“After a while, it occurred to me – I bet the WEbookers would love it! Before Volume One was even finished, I was laughing so hard I cried. Rebecca_Grey and I are pretty serious most of the time in our creativity, and this was a no-pressure way to be creative and have a few laughs together.
“We are now fondly calling the project Prozac for the soul. I can't tell you how much fun we've all had, and I would absolutely love to have it published – preferably with the comments included, so that readers can get the full effect of the hilarity and fun behind this project. If you can read The Pure Imagination Dictionary and still be depressed, you deserve to be!”
In order to deal with the huge amount of submissions she
gets, Kaoru creates new volumes
of The
Pure Imagination Dictionary on a regular basis – right now, the dictionary is growing at a
rate of a new project every couple of days! Ultimately, she plans to take the best submissions from all the
projects, alphabetize them, and compile them into one gigantic imaginatory
reference book. The
Pure Imagination Dictionary is currently in its sixth
volume – Volumes One, Two,
Three,
Four,
and Five
are no longer accepting submissions, but be sure to check them out if you’re in
need of some cerebral
palsie.
If you have the perfect imaginary word to contribute, visit
the most current volume of The
Pure Imagination Dictionary. Your
word could be the entry that catapults Kaoru into utter spizziness.
Got a line on a great WEbook project? Visit my profile and send me a message with the subject “Featured WEbook Project,” and I’ll consider it for a spot in the blog!
-- Melissa
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