Congratulations to Craig who has gone on from pronouncing familar words ("disaastah") in unfamilar ways, to inventing whole new words.

"Nodulistic" - having the character of nodules...anyone from the medical profession to tell us if this is in widespread use ??

Well it is now, in the world of ballroom dancing criticism

parthena

Well, I'm not from the medical world but am the proud possessor of a dictionary...

I rather like 'nodulistic' as a neologism, but the word he was striving for would have been 'nodulose' or 'nodulous' or even 'noduled', all of them acceptable adjectives relating to the word 'nodule'.

Couldn't find it in either dictionary.com or online medical dictionary.
I didn't like it myself, partly because nodules (wherever) can be a serious medical condition and it's not nice to be reminded about that on a Saturday evening entertainment programme!

<applause...> but still likes nodulstic

He's Australian

Nodule - also a flaw or a blemish. Since when did Craig speak plain English.

Too right! I love new words - why ever not? Did Craig also invent 'armography'? Brilliant, because it perfectly describes the choreography of all that arm-entangling stuff in the salsa.

Every year new words force themselves into the Oxford English Dictionary like Japanese knotweed. Didn't 'meh' make it in there recently, a word coined in internet chat rooms? It's worth remembering that words like 'chortle' and 'galumph' were invented by Lewis Carroll and are now accepted terms.

I'm looking forward to 'armography' being an accepted word in the OED in a few years' time.

Craig's imaginative invention of language is commendable.

But Craig's originality still has no comparison with Melissa from The Apprentice. Melissa coined half-dozen new words on every show.

... Well, I'm an Australian as well - not that that is relevant to this topic at all. Anyway, whilst I couldn't find "nodulistic" in either dictionary.com or in their reference tool, I did find a reference to "cystic nodulistic acne" on a Health message board.

So it would appear that Craig may not have been making it up after all.

... to have your dance described as a skin condition...

... Ouch!

What? Lumps and bumps and rather unsightly?

... this made I larf!