January 2009
19 posts
Koinophilia - Wikipedia →
a term used in biology[…]creatures prefer mates with a preponderance of common or average features.
“A painting can be beautiful, but I don’t want to bang a painting.”
– Kevin, from The Office, explaining the difference between “beautiful” and “hot”
Saudade - Wikipedia →
longing for something that one was fond of and which is lost[…]involves the hope that what is being longed for might return
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I’m fine if this the direction in which pop...
Dead Unicorn Trope - Television Tropes & Idioms →
A trope believed to have been beaten into the ground when in fact it never — or barely ever — existed. [e.g. Fairy-tales having happy endings]
Metaphorgotten - Television Tropes & Idioms →
A metaphor that eventually unravels. [e.g. “Your father and I are just too different, we’re like apples and oranges…oranges who went off and slept with their secretary and broke the apple’s heart.”]
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“[N]early all…whatever their espoused differences, will soon be espoused to...”
– A Book I’ve —Somewhat Ironically — Never Read
Urban Dictionary: neologasm →
the pleasurable feeling from having coined a new word [see also: neolojism]
Urban Dictionary: neologatrophy →
the sudden and devastating shrinking of a writer’s self-worth after they submit a new word to the Urban Dictionary and are rejected
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Meet Me By the Water - Saturday Looks Good to Me
Synesthesia - Wikipedia →
when stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a 2nd (e.g. Lexical → gustatory (i.e. TASTY WORDS!))
“[O]ur generation has deeply identified romance as a state of alienation, and...”
– K Major on the Gen-X Literary Voice
“[W]hen a construction is clearly present several times in Shakespeare’s...”
– Geoffrey K. Pullum on the singluar “They”
Macron - Wikipedia →
a diacritic ¯ placed over or under a vowel to indicate that the vowel is long. [contra breve ˘ ]
Likert scale/item - Wikipedia →
a psychometric scale commonly used in questionnaires[…]When responding to a Likert questionnaire item, respondents specify their level of agreement to a statement.
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While college is fine and the library’s...