On “Creativeness/Creativmess”

26/2/2009

3288242078 Fb534C5D0C “Creativeness”. I didn’t even expect this word exists in the dictionary. But it does. I thought it was a mis-derivation invented by one of my SYNTAX colleagues. BTW: “mis-derivation” does not exist in the dictionary.

I am too tired to blog. But Roba Assi is not. She documented the “creativemess” on display in our office in a “low quality” photo essay entitled: “Sorry for Disturbing Your Creativeness”. Have a look.

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  1. kinzi says:
    26/2/2009 at 9:48 am

    I confess, that the use of that word created such grammatical confusion for me I had to look it up. I was SURE ‘creativity’ was a better choice. But no, Roba was spot-on as usual, and probably increased traffic due to such a word. BUT, creative-mess was a good description of some of the artistic offerings!!!!

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  2. Bardees says:
    26/2/2009 at 10:47 am

    yaaa I really enjoyed the photos in Roba’s blog when I checked it yesterday, and I also thought the exact same thing, that it’s supposed to be creativity not creativeness!!! but it exists :D

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