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I wrote this when I was in that Louis Carroll phase and I spent my nights at work reading his stuff online.  I really like the idea of just making up new words and assigning them meanings, because that is what linguistics is all about.

Instead of gibberish words, I wanted some of these to look like they could be real words that you just don't know.  What I got was a mix of realistic-looking, nonsense-looking, and words I thought I made up but actually exist, like maccular.

Probably this is one of my favorite poems.

(c) 2003 Jordan Baugher