Ivan invents words.
Last year he invented "dramastically" which is some kind of fusion of dramatic and drastic... in the adverb sense?
Anyway, we were trying to write lyrics to a new song we're working on and after I proposed a line he didn't like, Ivan said, "It's too melan-campy." I thought it was a fusion of "melancholy" and "campy," which did, in fact, describe the line's faults. But, he assured me that the problem was actually that I had proposed a lyric too much like John (Cougar?) Melancamp.
*I retain the rights to use melan-campy for the purposes I mistakenly discovered, however.
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one of the professors in my uni was using 'dramastically' as well. it was really driving me nuts! it's not even a real word dammit!
just realized that melancampy has the same relative definition no matter which way you describe it--Melancamp's lyrics or melancholy/campy.
Same thing.
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