Some of the best language is wrong on purpose—or becomes useful by staying wrong: misspellings, mishearings, false cuts, near-words, bent names, and sound pulling spelling off course.
If the interesting event is a familiar form failing, drifting, or being pulled apart, it belongs here.
Curated mutation register
| Form | Mechanism | Source | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| afraud | Productive error / corruption | Starvation Artist in a Hostage Telethon 2021-12-28 | I am not afraud of you and I will beat your ass. || This is being composed on freezing aluminum and “afraud” was a typo but I now like it more. |
| angerlashing | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | Jokular Angerlashing of the Gendrarmy, || Jokular Angerlashing of the Gendrarmy, |
| bidizened | Near-word / altered inherited form | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | Dressed-down sloven or bidizened bazaar, || bidizened bazaar, |
| briberrhea | Productive error / corruption | The Clue Gun 2022-09-05 | Briberrhea. || Briberrhea. |
| cabn’t | Segmentation / contraction mutation | A magazine dump (periodical rubbish) 2024-12-02 | MUSIC , coming out of a PHONE . → (imagine a band called “ Music Phone ” or possibly “ MusicPhone ,” would it be theater kid shit or generic synth music or endless retconned nineteen-eighties or would it Actually Kind of Go and if it did go wou… |
| caterered | Productive error / corruption | 🖕2 THA FAKEZ THA LIARZ & THA HATERZ🖕: On Discouragement 2022-01-25 | It is called (“ It is called, ” what lousy writing ) ‘ PAGODA BENZ ,’ and you may have read it, and you may yet read it, and you may have re-read it or be in the process of re-reading it in another tab or in print-outs or perhaps in some other… |
| continous | Productive error / corruption | █Night Met a Violet End 2025-01-14 | ( pronounced with a 15-second continous OM / ॐ / AUM / AUM / AUM then a KSSSSSSSSSSH then VVVVVVVVV — give yourself vibrational feedback, repeat it, repeat it, REPEAT IT! — IN FACT ! — you should hum along with the WHOLE THING ) || pronounced w… |
| d’voidoffunk | Proper-name mutation | Normative Collapse (Vranyo Americano) 2022-04-05 | d’voidoffunk, || d’voidoffunk, |
| drowry | Productive error / corruption | 'The Event of the Ad' (Erotic Adult Guitar Rock) 2022-08-25 | Snyth scatterns snithering , drowry. || drowry. |
| dummymonde | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | Dum-ass dummymonde. |
| emlin-on-the-winging | Segmentation / contraction mutation | Idol Singer of an Empty Hour 2022-02-01 | to the tired-and-chosen ELECT , ggg r emlin-on-the-winging it and you’re slumbering in loser-land clout-clamoring on some “ |
| englishing | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | A.J.E. , A Jocular Englishing , languishing , lingering under tonnage’s venomous tongue, barking irons sparking hot , unstruck-out , unvanquished environs a priori of scion exit escape alt delete we must repeat biblical cyclical die on your kne… |
| entry’d | Segmentation / contraction mutation | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | This entry’d initially begun life as something called ‘ Protologia ’ that was going to be “about” some of my floatier unadapted neologisms . |
| Flickathewrist | Proper-name mutation | FutureSport 90-90 2023-05-03 | compilations, or “ Nasty Nais’ ,” or Flickathewrist , or — Well , he had a lot of |
| frothcoming | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | A vulgrimoire was used in the creation of this gremlinic greymalkin but I shant be frothcoming with sea tales. || A vulgrimoire was used in the creation of this gremlinic greymalkin but I shant be frothcoming with sea tales. |
| GHOSTRACIZED | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | GHOSTRACIZED || GHOSTRACIZED |
| hree-and-a-half-hours | Segmentation / contraction mutation | ADVENT 1.14: Yves, of the Apocalypse 2021-12-25 | as you’d like — and for t hree-and-a-half-hours ’ time, I DON’T KNOW. ▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩ I have no idea. |
| incoharrogance | Productive error / corruption | Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss 2022-07-18 | ACTS OF INCOHARROGANCE || ACTS OF INCOHARROGANCE |
| IT’D-D-D’VE | Segmentation / contraction mutation | A Song is Instructions for Itself 2025-10-30 | YOU WOULDN’T TAKE ME AT MY WORD / BUT YOU TOOK ME BY THE TAIL/DREW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS / THEN YOU THREW MY ASS IN JAIL/I’M JUST GLAD YOU DIDN’T DRAW A GUN / IMPULSES OVERRUN / WHO KNOWS HOW IT’D-D-D’VE GONE→ |
| Naismith’d | Proper-name mutation | FutureSport 90-90 2023-05-03 | “ LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG DIS TANCE! ” was when Naismith’d done it with a hook shot. One-handed! 25 points, racked. |
| neiric | Near-word / altered inherited form | ΩNEIRICΔ 2026-05-04 | ΩNEIRICΔ || o NEIRIC Δ |
| Neumanoid | Proper-name mutation | Beauty is a Public Good 2026-06-11 | face was freckled head vaguely Alfred E. Neumanoid beneath a black corduroy cap with some kind of machine |
| olecism | Near-word / altered inherited form | HOLY ✞ NIGHT 2025-12-26 | Venetian. Muscled beaches. Californian surf. Seething. S olecism . A cliffside’s worth. A chasm. Calmly dreaming. A bargained |
| perufict | Near-word / altered inherited form | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | I will not explicate but the exotextuality and timbous xenochromaticism herewith achieved by the cyclopomp is perufict. || I will not explicate but the exotextuality and timbous xenochromaticism herewith achieved by the cyclopomp is perufict. |
| redunderlines | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | What, were — yes, the redunderlines. |
| relinguishing | Near-word / altered inherited form | Spoilsport/Finish Shit 2026-08-12 | A likely relinquishing/linguistic collision in which the apparent error carries more semantic load than correction would. |
| scceleationists | Productive error / corruption | ADVENT 1.3: I DO. 2021-12-05 | 11:22 P.M. 8.28.18 Just write your thoughts down without concern for their correctness and assign those thoughts to their voicing this was coconut autocorrect accidental invention of idea word for this please. Assign those voixings characteriza… |
| spectarularist | Near-word / altered inherited form | ADVENT 1.2: The Aleatory City 2021-12-03 | Enveloping squinched spectarularist observer-performers gathered HERE , || squinched spectarularist observer-performers gathered HERE |
| Stastistician | Near-word / altered inherited form | Damn Spot 2022-09-29 | in denial . Lemon-lime. Capsacin monkey. Succulent. Stastistician . Megadeath. Quantified life. Megadeath. Commas and ampersands . & |
| stickened | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | SCRAWLED NOTES JUST SHY OF ASEMIC, STICKENED STEMS: || SCRAWLED NOTES JUST SHY OF ASEMIC, STICKENED STEMS: |
| thisspelled | Productive error / corruption | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | |
| unstruck-out | Segmentation / contraction mutation | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger 2022-07-27 | A.J.E. , A Jocular Englishing , languishing , lingering under tonnage’s venomous tongue, barking irons sparking hot , unstruck-out , unvanquished environs a priori of scion exit escape alt delete we must repeat biblical cyclical die on your kne… |
Neighboring systems
Case Corruption & Orthography handles capitalization and visual mutation; Protologism & Productive Failure handles the larger poetics; The Hyphen Engine handles clause compression.