Day of inventing new words

Neologisms appear in a language as a result of borrowing foreign words. At first, they are perceived by native speakers as something unusual and alien to their usual speech. Coach, runet, merchandiser, supervisor, fake, lockdown, trolling, copywriter... These words, despite the fact that they have been used for many years, still hurt the ears, but their meaning is clear to native Russian speakers on an intuitive level. There are also author's neologisms. New words that appeared thanks to writers and poets take root and eventually become commonly used. Usually this process is observed at the turn of eras. Thus, thanks to the work of the revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, not only an unusual poetic meter, “ladder”, appeared, but also neologisms. “With what pleasure would I be whipped and crucified by the gendarmerie caste for holding a hammer-like, sickle-shaped Soviet passport in my hands.” The poet writes about the “fired sand”, the “over-sitting”, “assed” police, the unreasonable “mass-meat bull-faced horde”. Individually authored neologisms have become a sign not only of the post-revolutionary period. The times of Khrushchev's Thaw were marked by the emergence of the sixties movement - a generation of intellectuals who were conventionally divided into physicists and lyricists. The brightest representative of the galaxy of poets of that time, Evgeny Yevtushenko, belongs to “antediluvium”, “half-childhood”, “I’ll get over it”, the phrases “manicured fingers”, “floors are traced”, “crisply wanders through the cold”, the expression “Brevity is the sister of mediocrity”, etc. . A holiday has been established in honor of the ability to invent occasionalisms. He calls on all speakers of the Russian language to remember its lexical wealth and discover their talent for word creation. The creators of the unusual celebration are convinced that neologisms can be created not only by poets and writers, but also by ordinary people. That's why November 28th is a fun Inventing New Words Day. This process is not something out of the ordinary, because... present in everyday life. So, parents of babies, grandparents, touched by their cute children, come up with affectionate nicknames for them: “kitty”, “cutie”, “little bead” and “masipusik”. Partners show no less imagination and ingenuity during the beginning of a romantic relationship. In the conversations of a newly-made couple, “kukurenok”, “pusya”, “smumrik”, “pupyrsik”, “sun” and other words from the language of lovers are often heard. The unusual holiday, which takes place on November 28, encourages people to use their imagination, imagining themselves as a creative person. Even A.S. Pushkin, despite his masterful command of language, came up with occasionalisms that made his poems unique and his poetry original. Admirers of his talent are well aware of the expression “I erected a monument to myself not made by hands.” The sun of Russian poetry also includes “accustomed to counter-feelings,” “blessing speeches” and “easy-tongued orations.” The creators of the holiday believe that everyone who celebrates the Day of Inventing New Words can reap the laurels of Piita. Who knows, maybe your neologism will come into use and become a commonly used word, thereby enriching the vocabulary of the language.