#neologisms

[art-of-mathematics]

More brain dough content!

now: nuclear pasta!

I love the creativity of those silly scientists - Quantum foam [termed by John A. Wheeler some decades ago] was just the beginning! Now come all sorts of nuclear pasta - nuclear gnocchi, spaghetti, waffles, lasagna... etc... Who said physics is not [f/y]ummy? [funny and/or yummy]

#brain dough content #nuclear pasta #physics #physics funnies #STEM #science #neologisms #funny neologisms #funny neologism #neologism #silly physics #analogy #analogies #brain dough #brain crumble #breadstick science #the science of brain crumble #crumbly #funny physics #yummy physics #degenerate matter #neutron stars #nuclear physics #astrophysics #crusty content #punny #puns #pun #punny time #shit academics say

[sweaterodyne]

Are posts that make the rounds of tumblr again and again, kinda always there but periodically stampeding through in force, called tumblrweeds?

Because they should be.

#neologisms #tumblrweed #the best neologisms happen at midnight

[word-for-today]

Word for today: droplifting

The act of sneaking things into a store so they look like they’re on sale, typically as an artistic statement or joke, such as the work of Obvious Plant

I’m SO glad to find out there’s a word for this

#neologisms #verbs

[liminalweirdo]

autistic communication

i want to talk more with other autistic people about neologisms (creating/coining new words) and whether this is something you find yourself doing by yourself or with others.

In the below poll "communication" obviously also includes AAC, sign, or any other forms of communication that you use.

For further reference, common tumblr/online words like "blorbo," "ouppy," etc. do not count. Basically words/signs/phrases that probably only you or people close to you would understand for sure. Different from in-jokes as they are not only to make people laugh but for genuine communication.

This includes phrases that are real words but not in a "logical" or "correctly ordered" format.

Autistic people only please!

#autism #asd #actually autistic #neologisms #autism spectrum disorder #polls #tumblr polls

[ulforcev-dramon]

that’s basically what happened right

#primal #primal spoilers #fang #red #neologisms #my art #(except for the bits ripped from Neil C's original comic)

[achronalart]

Hello what does Sophipygian mean? I cannot find anything other your social media things.

I am glad you asked!

“Sophipygian” is a neologism based on Greek roots that means basically “wise ass” or “smart ass.”

Here’s how it works.

English has plenty of words with Greek roots. For example, “calligraphy” which comes from the Greek roots “calli-“ meaning “beautiful” and “graphos” meaning “writing.”

Likewise, “philosophy” which comes from “philos”, “love” and “sophia”, “wisdom” or “knowledge”.

As an art student I learned about a famous Roman copy of a lost Greek statue, the “Callipygian Venus".

In this figure, the goddess is hiking up her skirts past her waist to look over her shoulder at her lovingly sculpted bottom.

In this case “calli-“ means “beautiful” and “pyge” means, as most dictionaries genteelly put it, the buttocks.

So when my Greek-studying husband coined the term “sophipygian” from the roots “sophia” and “pyge”, “wise/smart” + “buttocks/ass”, I thought it was an apt description of my general posting habits and appropriated it as a general descriptor.

#sophipygian #neologisms #everything sounds classier in Greek

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#not german #english #neologisms #politics

[dragonagitator]

If I were to time travel back to 2004, I think one of my biggest ongoing difficulties would be remembering to always speak in the formal register (which hasn't changed much in 20 years) lest I accidentally reveal myself as being not from around here now by slipping back into my casual register (which is full of 2024 colloquialisms and internet slang).

Imagine saying to someone in 2004, "My spoonie friend posted that YouTube clip of House's 'Life is Pain' rant on her Facebook and I was like, 'That slaps. Mood.'"

That's a perfectly understandable statement to almost anyone who might be reading this on Tumblr in 2024, but would sound like schizophrenic word salad to 2004 ears.

Even if I were able to keep up constantly speaking in the formal register despite how exhausting and unnatural it would feel, I'd still have communication difficulties. IRL I rarely speak to anyone in the formal register anymore, even at work -- my last couple of jobs were in very laid-back environments where everyone else was at least a decade younger than me -- and I've noticed recently that when I force myself to switch to the formal register, I always sound pissed off even when I'm not.

It finally clicked that the reason I've lost the ability to emote appropriately while speaking in the formal register is that for the past few years, there's been only one context in which I consistently speak in the formal register every single time: Leaving angry voicemails for US Senators.

It cracks me up that somewhere in the language part of my brain, I've apparently got a bit of code running that "Senators = teh oldz" and therefore I must address them using a register that feels frozen in time. Not only was this not a conscious decision, but it's also so hard-coded that I instinctively switch to the formal register even while drunk-dialing their constituent feedback lines at 3am.

(Pro tip: If you have never drunk-dialed your Senator at 3am, you're not Americaning hard enough. Get to it, kiddies.)

Thinking about time travel has made me realize just how much colloquial English has changed over the past 20 years and how it keeps getting weirder and weirder at an accelerating rate. Speaking in code to route around censorship algorithms. New slang spreading within days instead of years. Horrible new suffixes. An emerging fourth person pronoun. It's wild.

I lived through these changes. I was already a grown adult back in 2004. And even I would have to carefully mind my speech in order to blend in and be understood. Can you imagine what would happen if you sent an extremely online Zoomer back 20 years?

#time travel problems #old lady ramblings #english #english language #english slang #language #linguistics #sociolinguistics #register #slang #internet slang #neologisms #algospeak

[hobohobgoblim]

so to yoink is to take/grab something quickly, and to yeet is to throw something away quickly.

I therefore propose that "to yacht" is to cause something to sink quickly.

For example: the Republican candidates history of stomping puppies yachted his polling numbers.

Thank you for your consideration.

#to yacht #new verb just dropped #neologisms #yacht the rich #orca revolution #sink the rich #dont mourn orcanise #orca navy #hip lingo #tumblr slang

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

I need to start saying Not my labyrinth, not my goblins (in the same spirit as "not my circus, not my monkeys" or, more broadly, "not my business")

#shitpost #neologisms #labyrinth #jim henson #goblin #goblins

[learnkurmanjikurdish]

In Kurdish it literally means “land of Gaels”.

The word is feminine since it is a country name and all country names are feminine in Kurmanji Kurdish

Ireland

Irland

Ιρλανδία

#kurdish #kurdistan #kurdî #language #minority languages #neologisms #kurmanci #linguistics #irland #irlanda #galistan #country #ireland #map

[eirikr-inn-rowdy]

Today's Anglish word:

nameknown

adjective

Famous; widely recognized.

#english language #anglish #old english #linguistics #entymology #germanic languages #romance languages #neologisms

[luc1city]

Oneirologisms #04 - "Stalagtited"

Context:

Found a victim of this myself. Unfortunately, they were already long gone. No recall of anyone speaking this word - I just knew what had happened.

[What is this?]

#oneirologisms #neologisms #lucid dreaming

[xlelife]

XLE.LIFE's New Terms 2024 are now dripping on the platforms. Next up is Metta, not to be confused with Meta or Mata.

#xle.life #xlelife #xle.lifenewterms2024 #xle.lifenewterms #xlelifenewterms2024 #xlelifenewterms #metta #meta #mata #meditation #neologisms #new world #visualization #decolonize #softness #care #empathy #health #kai altmann #kari altmann

[sugarcub-01]

neocrapologism

neo•crap•o•lo•gism

/nɪːˈɑkræpəˌləd͡ʒɪzəm/

n. the coining of a new vulgar term or curse word, especially one motivated by the impression that the available words fail to sufficiently convey the type and intensity of particular emotion(s)—or by the perceived lack of satisfying options to spit at someone's face.

Etymology:

From Greek νέος (néos; "new") + English crap ("excrement", "expression of anger or annoyance") + Greek λόγος (lógos; "that which is said; word, utterance, argument") + -ism (suffix to denote a concept, ideology, or process), thus 'a new word of crap'.

Derived term(s):

- neocrapologist

n. a person who coins a new vulgar term or curse word.

- crapologist

n. an avid user of swear words.

n. someone who swears excessively, despite the current context not warranting any swear words, insofar that their swearing may even be seen as an unnecessary habit or second nature. In other words, a person who swears purposelessly.

#neologisms #words #new words #etymology #linguistics #language #stuff probably only I find funny #no one needs it but no one cares #sugarcub #neologism #if one of the words sounds overly professional—that's the point #creative #making shit up

[ulforcev-dramon]

he somehow managed to top samurai jack’s ending. i’m losing my mind. im laughing my ass off. my marbles are gone. i thought it wasn’t even physically possible to do one worse. genndy can i buy you a beer

#genuine in-real-life laughter btw #neologisms #primal #primal spoilers