For quite some time I have taken to adding ma’s into the middle of words to make them sillier. The one I use the most is
‘congratumalations’
It’s great! Sounds better and underlines a core daftness I like to lace my entire life with.
I think it’s genesis came from the Simpsons and Homer’s adorable pronunciation of the phrase ‘Saxophone’ or as he calls it ‘Saxomaphone’. It was really nailed home in this little exchange between him and a diddy Lisa
Homer: So, what do you like, Lisa? Vio-ma-lin? Tuba-ma-ba? Oboe-mo-boe?
Lisa: [pointing] That one! [Lisa's adorable little digit points up to a beautiful new baritone sax.]
Homer: Oh…saxo-ma-phone. [reads price tag] Two hundred dollars?!
Another one I like a lot is ‘investimagate’. It implies investigating with your tongue out, digging around in a toybox to emerge with playdoh in your hair.
On initial investimagation it seems to work best with 4 syllable words. I can think of a few examples now of good words improved by the addition of a ma
- Communimacation
- Pornomagraphy
- Mandamatory
- Oblimagation
- Unbearamable
I’d love to hear people’s suggestions, 4 syllable words are a good start but there’s gotta be more diverse ones. Come, share with me the power of ma, We know it is formidamable.
I do all the time too.
I try not to on the interwebs too much, lest people think I’m simple, but in real life, for some reason, I don’t seem to care.
I use the word photomagraph a lot!
Synthemasizer
A simple ‘vegematarian’, suffices for me.
Okay, so this excercise started off innocent enough, with a few “choice” words like:
FORNIMACATE;
and
MASTURMABATE.
But pretty soon, as so often happens, my mind began to wander down more sinister pathways:
SUFFOMACATION;
and
NECROMAPHILIA
I have reached 2 conclusions:
1) I should probably seek some kind of psychoMAlogical help
b) even quite horriMAfic words such as those above sound simply jovial with the power of ‘ma’