New Word

[astrokerb]

Today I was at a restaurant, trying to discuss tachyonic antitelephones and vertical farming with my family. The problem was that my father is a political scientist, my mother is a lawyer/writer, and my sister is too young to even spell "tachyon."

I felt lonely, except I was surrounded by people. I felt like I was the only person there who could understand things like tachyons and verticle farming. There wasn't a word to fit how I felt, so I made a new one: onely. It could be interpreted as a portmanteau of lonely and only, or some other way. When you are onely, you feel like you are lonely because you are the only person who understands/can do/likes something. An example sentence is " I felt onely being the only Kerbal player."

I would like to try to make onely a real word, but I have no idea how. If you know how to do that, please tell me.

Edited July 11, 2016 by astrokerb

[Snark]

The word you are searching for is "nerd". 

(speaking as one...)

[astrokerb]

8 minutes ago, Snark said:

The word you are searching for is "nerd". 

(speaking as one...)

I was onely being the only nerd. 

[stibbons]

I love the mythological origin of the word "quiz". http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-qui1.htm

[Bill Phil]

Loneliness is more of a psychological thing than being alone. You might be alone but not feel lonely, and the same holds true for not being alone and feeling lonely. If say you were still lonely. But it's pretty cool to make new word up, and "onely" is shorter than lonely but not alone.

[Andem]

3 hours ago, Bill Phil said:

Loneliness is more of a psychological thing than being alone. You might be alone but not feel lonely, and the same holds true for not being alone and feeling lonely. If say you were still lonely. But it's pretty cool to make new word up, and "onely" is shorter than lonely but not alone.

^^This.

[FungusForge]

4 hours ago, Snark said:

The word you are searching for is "nerd". 

(speaking as one...)

Spoiler

 

Don't worry, we're all nerds about something.

[kerbiloid]

A typical beginning of a dark lord career. It's normal.

Usually the next step of dark way is a revelation that most people more likely prefer comfortable superstitions than an obvious gain.

Edited July 12, 2016 by kerbiloid

[Nuke]

the best thing nerds can do is find other nerds.

7 hours ago, stibbons said:

I love the mythological origin of the word "quiz". http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-qui1.htm

i always thought it was short for 'inquisition', but meh.

Edited July 12, 2016 by Nuke