I’m writing with intentionality today and if that moves your comfortability then please accept my apologies but it’s become a necessissity to talk about this. I know, it’s flusterating.
Okay. If you’re like me, you’re still focused on the opening statement. Believe it or not, all of these words have been words used recently by our educated general public. I keep a toolbar link to Merriam Webster online just to check out words I’m not quite sure about.
I first heard the word, comfortability, from the mouth of an University of Texas MBA student at a previous place of employment. The rapid adoption rate beginning the next day by fellow employees simply because this person was deemed more educated was quite amazing. Personally, I’m still trying to pronounce it. Clearly one of these things is not like the other. A quick check today proves comfortability and flusterating are nowhere to be found in the dictionary.
As for improper word innovation, I chalk it up to the creative genius our education system has inspired. I refer to 2 + 2 = 5. The kid gets an “A” for effort. I’ll give the former co-worker an “A+” for imagination and trend setting skills but an “F” to the co-workers who didn’t check it out for themselves.
The right to create your own words is a matter of constitutionality (an actual word) but is it really in your best interestability to do so? Just curious.
I think you’re even being kind in your formal-looking spelling of the non-words.
When I hear it, it sounds more like “comfterbility.” One of the syllables is compressed, much like the way most of us say “February” (sounds like “Febuary”) and the way TV meteorologists say “temperature” (sounds like “tempature”).
At any rate, it gives me a sense of uncomfortability, or uncomfterbility. I ain’t got comfort.