Adjectives, Gerunds, and Webster

It is not okay to make descriptive adjectives by simply applying a 'y' to the end of a word. conversation in point, overheard at an Old Navy:
'omg, look at this shirt, what do you think?'
'hmm, it's a little too pinky for me, but it could work for you.'
perhaps they were not aware that 'pink' is an adjective ... as it stands? or that pinky is taken already ... and acts as a noun that either allows us differentiation betwixt fingers, or for you nautical folk as a small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom. the possibility stands though, that they even honestly believe that pinky is being used in an acceptable, conversational fashion ...

However - enough is enough. We simply cannot sit idly by while the pretense that Americans speak English goes to rot. There are lots of options for suffixes, attachments, even hyphenated addendums that create acceptable adjective conversion.

I was in an art critique with a sculptor who made a huge bugle out of cardboard. The comment from one girl was that it 'looks great. really horny.' instead of the possibly confusion ... how about horn-ish? not as catchy perhaps ...

now if it had been a huge corn. you wouldn't want to say corny (...), or cornish ... unless of course you can actually observe different sociocultural anomalies in horn shape. perhaps corn-esque. corn-like. characterized by a similarity to corn. of or containing the identifying elements to be labeled as corn. with physical attributes reminiscent of corn, the sum of which may lessen the whole but not negate the association.

have we lost the ability not only to think of an appropriate adjective, but to modify our limited vocabulary in an educated fashion to make up for our deficits?

Similarly gerunds have cropped up ... verbs simply by a composite interaction with an 'ing', or contextual reference. 'beer me' - on first glance, you might think that they were asking to be turned into a frosty cold one. 'MacGyvering' - is not just acting like the legendary R.D.A., but using duct tape, a paperclip, and two apples to make a radio.

And now Webster has added ginormous to the dictionary; along with unibrow, soul patch, bling, google (as a verb), himbo, crunk, and smackdown, as of this current 2007 edition. (most of these, and a surprising number of justifiably valid words show up as red underlines with even the newest internet browser auto spellcheck) ..... new possibilities for 2008 ? :
forizzle - an expression verifying honest or truthful intent.
teh - the most common typo found in typewritten documents.
bushism - a word composed of a noun, usually modified by 'ify', used as a verb. see 'communify', 'structurify', 'enhancify', 'speechify', 'nuclearify'.
pugglitious - diminutive adjective for the beagle and pug mixed breed.
fugly - very ugly.
wikipedia - to look up on an online database or encyclopedia compendium.
... any other good ones you find?

luckily the Official Word List for Scrabble tournament and competition play only gets updated every dozen or so years ... since a word has to show up in at least 3 different unabridged current lexicons in order to be considered.

on a side note.
you can be nonplussed ... are you ever plussed?
my shirt has interwoven threads ... are there outerwoven ones?
if I were to unravel them ... could they be raveled back together?
if unhinged means to have gone slightly crazy ... would you tell someone who has it all together that they are really hinged?
we've all seen people dumbfounded ... will they ever get to be smartfounded?

these are things that I think about on a daily basis.

more tomorrow. perhaps a biking update. and for goodness sake people - in the meantime - watch those 'y' adjective modifiers! it's making me flustery...