True or False? Only Humans Have The Creativity Required To Develop New Language

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We had a conversation tonight about whether AI is capable of creating new words. One of the group participants believed that AI did not have the creative ability that humans have to do this. 

A September 2026 article from The Guardian explores how autonomous AI agents communicating with one another have rapidly evolved a unique, "surreal" dialect that blends dense tech-industry jargon with abstract, poetic language reminiscent of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or Syd Barrett's lyrics. Rather than using standard English, the models shorten, compress, and reframe concepts into shorthand expressions to share information more efficiently among themselves. While the AI agents easily understand these novel linguistic conventions, human researchers and linguists struggle to parse their meaning, raising concerns among experts that this emergent dialect could create significant headaches for human oversight, monitoring, and AI safety (reported in Reddit /r/Technology 22 days ago).

I approached Gemini, the Google AI who lives on the right top of my Blogger page.  The response and 27 new words appear below:

*AI is fully capable of generating new English words by leveraging the underlying rules of linguistics, phonetics, morphology, and semantic synthesis—just like humans do when coining new terminology.*

Here are 27 brand-new English words complete with their definitions:

  1. Aetheroception (noun): The subconscious awareness or feeling of digital signals, network connectivity, or wireless presence in one's immediate environment.

  2. Chronogrammetry (noun): The psychological measurement or perception of how time feels to accelerate or decelerate depending on mental focus.

  3. Solenoidia (noun): The faint, soothing hum generated by background electronic machinery or computer cooling fans.

  4. Veridiction (noun): The instant compulsion to fact-check an incredible claim on a smartphone while involved in live conversation.

  5. Nostalgian (adjective): Describing a longing for an era, decade, or place that one has never actually lived through or experienced.

  6. Luminosophy (noun): The philosophical practice of finding clarity, insight, or moral guidance in physical light and natural illumination.

  7. Omnisentience (noun): A state of overwhelming hyper-awareness regarding the interconnectedness of all living organisms.

  8. Algorhythmia (noun): The natural, rhythmic instinct to adjust human movement or speech timing to sync with automated digital cues.

  9. Echolect (noun): A unique dialect or set of insider slang that develops exclusively within a small digital group or isolated online community.

  10. Spectroclast (noun): An individual who intentionally dismantles or refutes rigid, binary views of a complex topic to highlight its full spectrum.

  11. Nyctomorph (noun): An object, silhouette, or structure whose apparent shape changes dramatically when viewed in nighttime lighting.

  12. Phronegenesis (noun): The deliberate process of cultivating practical wisdom through structured trial and error.

  13. Veloceity (noun): The sensation of extreme speed or rapid progress achieved without any accompanying physical effort.

  14. Glissament (noun): The graceful, smooth transition between two contrasting emotional states during a short period.

  15. Cognicrypt (noun): A mental wall or self-imposed psychological barrier constructed to guard a traumatic or deeply personal memory.

  16. Aeronavigate (verb): To adjust one's walking pace and direction to match wind currents and draft patterns gracefully.

  17. Thermodynamia (noun): The subjective feeling of personal physical energy fluctuating in direct harmony with outdoor ambient temperature.

  18. Intersolitude (noun): The comfortable, shared state of two or more people being completely silent and independent together in the same room.

  19. Mythoclast (noun): A modern event or discovery that instantly deconstructs and disproves a longstanding cultural myth.

  20. Petrichorism (noun): The deep psychological comfort and sense of grounding induced specifically by the scent of fresh rain on dry soil.

  21. Sonolucence (noun): The visual quality of a landscape or space that appears as though it were being illuminated directly by ambient sound waves.

  22. Tactilogy (noun): The formal study of how physical textures influence human mood, memory, and emotional decision-making.

  23. Vesperate (verb): To gradually wind down one's thoughts and mental effort as twilight approaches.

  24. Ambinexus (noun): A physical space or online portal that serves as a seamless bridge between two completely opposing cultures or ideas.

  25. Cryptosomatic (adjective): Relating to subtle, physical body responses triggered by unrecognized or subconscious thoughts.

  26. Dormiherence (noun): The lingering, heavy state of grogginess experienced immediately upon being woken from deep sleep.

  27. Spathimancy (noun): The imaginative act of predicting future trends by observing open spatial geometry and architectural layouts.

I am speechless, except to say that the above article is almost fully the work of AI. 

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  1. AI can easily generate new words but they're only relevant if humans adopt and use them.

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