I need some help pumping up some words

I know there's a lot of wordsmiths out there and people who like to write and shit, but I'm going through a difficult stage and I need some help from you people in pumping some words up to get it out. What kind of words can you pump up? Please help me, this is really difficult, and shit.

 

I don't understand what you mean by "pumping some words up".

 

Likewise - what is pumping up words???

 

Try writing them in CAPITALS?

 

Look for Synonyms!


Bustramp

 

"the volume" is an inflatable phrase, Many people have "pumped up" the volume.
I like the phrase "bycicle innertubes". I have "pumped up" those words many times.
There is of course the old English meaning of "pumped" which means to have farted.
"Leaping leapars! have you pumped"? so if you mean that variety of "pump up" then I cant help you. There is someone who lives in Belgium that makes inflatable internet words

 

No, I don't think you understood. I don't mean juggling with words. I mean pumping them up as in giving them a bit of oomph. Anyone can make a word bigger but it's the substance that counts. Normally people do that a lot here, you know, making a word a bit more meaty. For example: Instead of Julie had a kebab, Julie had a fleshy shawarma that had her creamin her kacks. It's a crude example, but I need some comparisons of making words more illustrious. People like journos and advertisers do it.

 

like the opposite of a word debockle?

 

Do you have a particular sentence in mind? I do a bit of music journalism (recently got told I should be crowned for an article about why less people should form bands), so I may be able to help. Normally it's just about finding ways to expand on things.

Start with what you want to say, and just expand on each part of it.

Begin with the central idea that you want to illustrate, and by establishing which are the most important aspects of it, finds ways in which you can go into greater factual or descriptive detail on each of these key elements.

^ for (a shit) example.

 

oh like

I really wanted to get the tickets before they were sold out.


I planned the purchase the concert tickets to a tee, my knees were shaking, my finger pursed on the dial button, waiting, anticipating, sensing, anxious, mouth dry .... cautiously dialing not to arbetrarily miss a number and have to go through the lengthy process of redialing. I waited with the receiver clutched in my hand, squeezing the cool phone against my ear with my hot sweaty fist, "please please answer...." I begged with the small voice inside me.

 

Yeah. this is it exactly, but I can't put it ito words. I need words that just melt in your mouth. Like Toblerone, man. If yoy say Toe-ble-rone really slow in front of a mirror it has a hypnotic effect. If anyone tries it, try doing it at different speed, if you do it about 20-25 times, you get the effect that time is beginning to slow down like a kind of butterfly effect. If you try it you have to be careful so that you can snap out of it. If you have a dog, try doing the TOE-BLE-RONE to your dog and see what happens. But if you have a cat DON'T because it will scartch your eyes out. So will your girlfriend. If you have one.

 

that is damn odd... Toblerone.

 

Oh I get it so instead of calling a spade, a spade, we call it an "a manual labourers earth conveyencing implement"
So instead of saying "can someone help me give some oomph to words"?, That sentence could be rephrased "By the possibilities invested in the mind of human organisms perchance is it possible that one or many amongst you might by happenstance have the wherewithall to assist in the bringing forth from meagre words the event of purple prose"?

 

meep, I tend to skim over sentances like that.

 

you mean "sentences"
Etymology teaches one that the word sentence means

but the dictionary said on the subject of sentance

Therefore I did not understand what you meant as I am forumbot and not human

 

No. That is word rimming. I didn't mean rimming. I'm not into rimming at all. Pumping up words. I mean taking a sentence and replacing words which everyone still understands but making it sound more wicked. It's like giving it a coat of paint and making it look brand new. A small example is taking the word York and adding New to it, making it New York. Now if you compare York to New York there's a big difference, ain't there?

 

I guess in a way that's the great thing with English; you can pick a word and it seems a bit boring, but if you hunt around there's a pretty good chance you'll find another word which sounds exactly right and means exactly what you mean.

The main snag I've had with this is that, when you can't think of a word, anything else you do come up with carries so many connotations that you can't really use them. This came up when we tried to find a positive version of "scheming" to describe a match-making character in "A Room With A View". We found tons of synonyms but they all sounded dark and Machiavellian (that's a great word, even if it is a foreign name - "Machiavellian" mmmmm ), and in the end we had to give up. That sucked.

 

That's exactly it! You've knocked the nail on the head and even though it hurts a bit I don't mind. You're also right about the tendency to go off the mark a bit with some synonyms and slipping into darkness.

For an example, folks, how would you pump up some words to describe a day to make it sound reaaaaally good? BTW I've pumped up the word really there, so if you look for the word reaaaaally in the dictionary you won't find it. (It's been pumped).

 

Just use a theosaurus thats what theyre for
theres all sorts of stuff online

How about then instead of saying and

you just say 'n'

bill 'n' ben
pie 'n' mash

or heeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrressssss! JOHNNY !

 

:H oh sorry for the typo I forgot where I was .... in the Writers Forum..... first time posting in here and maybe my last...... shouldnt "writers" have an apostrophe if it is indeed their forum??


oh oh two question marks.....

too many dots...


eek.



*slams door