Buckminster Fuller seems to have been a very remarkable person, so I would like to introduce him here on my blog. I like his word creations (text from Wikipedia, retrieved 18 Feb 2007):
Use of language and neologisms
Buckminster Fuller spoke and wrote in a unique style and thought it crucial to describe the world as accurately as possible. [2] Fuller often created long run-on sentences and used unusual compound words (omniwell-informed, intertransformative, omni-interaccommodative, omniself-regenerative) as well as terms he himself coined. [3] Fuller used the word ‘Universe’ without the definite or indefinite articles (a or the) and always capitalized the word. Universe to Fuller meant the sum of all experience. [4]
Fuller replaced the words ‘up’ and ‘down’ with ‘in’ and ‘out’ of a gravitational centre, holding that ‘up’ and ‘down’ referred only to a planar concept inconsistent with how humans experience the world. [5] ‘World-around’ is a term coined by Fuller to replace worldwide. The general belief in a flat Earth died out in the Middle Ages, so using wide is an anachronism when referring to the surface of the Earth — a spheroidal surface has area and encloses a volume, but has no width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas detracts from and misleads intuition. The terms sunsight and sunclipse are other neologisms, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder collectively coined by the Fuller family, replacing sunrise and sunset in order to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-Copernican celestial mechanics. Fuller also coined the phrase Spaceship Earth, and coined the term (but did not invent) tensegrity.
It has also been claimed that Fuller coined the phrase debunk in 1927, however many credit William Woodward for the term in 1923.
Buckminster Fuller – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
