Neat new phrase

Mon, 21 May 2007 07:17:37 GMT

In a conversation this afternoon, someone used the term "aurora urbanalis". AKA "light pollution", the glow in the sky that makes it hard to do much stargazing when you're in a city.

This fits my personal definition of an excellent neologism. It's clever, appropriate, and immediately understandable from context.

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:27:11 GMT

I need a word for "the unwillingness to return to work after going for ice cream on your lunch hour." Any ideas?

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:33:03 GMT

I co-run a writers group at my college (well, i'm graduating in two weeks and tonight was our last meeting [sniff!!]) and we made sniglets as our prompt.

here's a list:

Use-ery-mania
1. the fast paced movements that computer users make when they find a funny photograph online and want to e-mail it to their friends.

Black-ome
1. the gnome of the African race. slang.

Super-say-ancy
1. an urgency to spout qoutes from movies, tv episodes, or comics.
2. the backlash for taking too long to give a toast at a wedding.

could-ism
1. a quip referring to what could have happened if you'd have gotten off your arse and did it.

Sub-fall-stand
1. the moment after you trip, but before you hit the floor.

Fore-sound
1. the audible or non-audible sound coming from before the real sound. the idea of the coming sound, manifested in a hallucination that becomes known during the event of the actual sound. a premonition in the form of a sound or music, particularily bells.

Took-ative
1. being in the state of tookative. being inclined to having been taken, with no current habitation of being "took." being taken, and without being un-taken, not being taken. having an obsession with being taken. a false idea of being abducted, married, or accepted to the circus.

Why-ary
1. the place where reasons are kept.

Genesis-illion
1. the act of starting at the begining over and over again, but never actually ever finishing.

Tree-oid
1. akin to a "tree hugger," but meaning one who actually prefers the company of trees to that of humans.

Course-onym
1. an obvious statement used more than once, usually within the same conversation. usually occur during oral presentations given by religious clergy, teachers, and presidents.

Lead-ectomy (spontaneous)
1. the sudden breaking of the lead from the point of a mechanical pencil.

Phunk
1. the sound a pen cap makes when pulled from the end of a matte-finish pen.

Sniglets!

Neat new phrase