[Lexicog] factional

[David Tuggy]

I have recorded "there's nothing fictual about it" (meaning "it's all 
true"), and also (in print) "This popular author has given us another 
fictious tale to enjoy." But these were apparently slips, not words 
purposely used with a new meaning ("fact-based fiction"). I'd suppose a 
blend of fictional and factual to get fictual, and haplology from 
fictitious to get fictious. Some linguists use the form "fictive", 
saying e.g. that "the road goes down to the coast" is "fictive motion" 
of the road.

Just googled these and find 600+ for "fictual" (some purposeful, others 
deploring the term), including "Discovery Channel brings us into the 
world of life on another planet, take a virtual journel to a *fictual* 
planet where life is discovered ", and over 49K (!) for "fictious", 
including "That’s why it’s written about a *fictious* town and a 
*fictious* problem." 417K for "fictive".

--David Tuggy

Wayne Leman wrote:

> I happened to turn on the T.V. tonight when the only channel available 
> to us
> was airing a program on the Da Vinci Code. I haven't read the book.
>
> At the end of the program a historian refers to data which were 
> "fictional"
> and others that were "factional." My English dictionary doesn't have that
> meaning sense for "factional" but I wouldn't be surprised if English
> dictionaries will in a few years. Nice neologism based on lexical 
> symmetry
> with "fictional."
>
> Wayne
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