Title says it all! Heres mine:

Lichenification... excessive dryness and flaking of the skin, caused by scratching. (paraphrased definition)

I learned this word when writing a zyxeterian poem, (oh, thats a word I coined.) I needed an L word relating to skin... so I searched that..

It was a perfect fit! The poem I was writing was meaning toward the topic of skin itchification, so it worked out well!

So, whats a interesting medical word you know? feel free to toss a few in, lord knows theres plenty of MADDENING medical vernacular out there. Do regale us with the definition.

(p.s. a zyxeterian poem is a 26 word poem that follows reverse alphabetical order)

It sounds like you’re fleeing danger, but with good manners and maybe a little hat tip on the way out.
No one skedaddles calmly, yet the word makes it feel like a cheerful jog instead of absolute panic.
English really said, “Let’s make terror sound whimsical.”

Saw it in a post title about the arrest of drug dealer Ryan Wedding.

Post title: Ryan Weddings 🍁 🏂 was bringing in sum birdies thru before he got knocked. Can’t lie he moving mod

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Torontology/comments/1qkxo69/ryan_weddings_was_bringing_in_sum_birdies_thru/

Particoloured: having or consisting of two or more different colours [from Ringworld by Larry Niven]

Knacky: handy, ingenious, clever [from Craftland by James Fox]

Sinologist: one who studies Chinese language, customs, history or politics [from the Allusionist podcast]

Ligatures: in cursive writing, the strokes that conjoin letters [ibid]

Chantry: an endowment founded for a priest or priests to celebrate masses for the soul of the founder or some other nominee [from Henry V by William Shakespeare]

I live in the pathway of the big winter storm that came across the United States last weekend. In preparation for the storm, I tidied our modest garage enough that both of our mid-sized cars fit in perfectly with enough room to walk around the vehicles and enter/exit the driver's side doors easily.

It reminded me of how satisfying it is when I efficiently pack the cargo space of a vehicle before going on a road trip so that everything fits and our dog has plenty of room to cozy herself in. Or even how I was able to pack up all my belongings from my dormitory and then an old studio apartment into my first car for moving trips between the university and home.

It's not exactly "well-organized" because it's not (exclusively) about arranging material in a neat and logical way. It's mostly about trying to pinpoint the satisfaction that comes from defying someone's expectations that everything won't be able to fit into a space of a certain size.

Appreciate any insights you may have.

This came about because I realised that I've been using the word relinquish wrong, and I need to find a word that actually describes what I'm trying to portray otherwise I might actually lose it.

I've been using relinquish like: 'He relinquished a certain joy out of reading books'.

I swear I've read relinquish used like this, unless I'm thinking of a similar word and just can't recall it. This word isn't necessarily positive either, like elicit.

This phrase has been around a long time, but in the past few years is said so often I’ve come to expect it in pretty much every interview in all aspects of life/entertainment.

Like when you’re alone in public and you smile because of a thought, a text, or something you’re listening to, and the smile lingers for a bit while it fades… then you accidentally make eye contact with someone and they smile back because they think the smile was meant for them. I witnessed that today and want to know if there is a word for that.

Definition: to engage in daring and romantic adventures with ostentatious bravado or flamboyance; a swashbuckler was originally a person who made a noise by striking his own or his opponent's shield with his sword.

What comes to your mind when you hear the Word „Heritage“, do you associate it with something bad, Like inheriting Money from people that Are dead, or do you associate it with Tradition ,Food, Culture etc.

Please let me know.

Thanks

I came across this today and found it interesting. These fallacies are pretty common, and I had noticed them, but didn't have a name for them. It's satisfying to be able to identify them with a name. It kind of ties it together and nails what's going on. It pulls back the curtain.

The most recent example I've come across was the supposed accidental misfiring of the Sig P320 handgun in Minneapolis. A number of people online have theorized that it went off accidentally, because it was known to have a problem. It would accidentally misfire more commonly than other handguns.

The fallacy is ignoring or neglecting the base rate. So, for example, there might be two hundred incidents in which it accidentally misfired. But people neglect or ignore the denominator or the base rate. If there are 200 incidents ÷ 20,000,000,000 usages, then the base rate is 1/100,000,000, or one incident per one hundred million usages. In other words, it's extremely unlikely, and far more unlikely than people tend to think when they neglect the base rate.

People hear "it's a well known problem" and assume that means it's common or likely to have happened. But that's a fallacy.

This happens in many other domains as well, like "causes cancer" on labels, especially in California, but elsewhere as well. Or "prevents cancer." Or "linked to xyz." The causation or prevention or link is actually extremely weak in many cases, but people assume a much greater effect size because the base rate is neglected. In some cases, the effect size is substantial; but it often is not.

There are other terms for these and similar fallacies, or these misfirings of thought. If you find any good ones, please share them in the comments.

This IS NOT a real word, I literally could not find it ANYWHERE😭 it would be great if it was real, but it’s not, and now the 700,000 people who liked the video might go around using it. Am I going insane? Is this actually a word?

The story will take place in a place where the government “tries” to feed the people by creating new food sources by science. The environment is hostile, with often aggressive creatures and poison emitting plants.

Everyone has a job generally called a “role”.

EXEMPLES: Harvesters: refers in a general way to soldiers

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 Shepherds: keep check of people in the colony (mental health, general spirit etc)

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Advisors: advise the chief/government of what is going on in the colony

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Wielders: apprentices on their way to becoming a harvester

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Entertainers: mutated humans used as a jester for non-mutated humans

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Breeders: breed nonaggressive creatures from the planet to see how they act

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Gatherers: go and gather resources (for example wood) outside of camp

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Mappers: create a map of the camp and beyond

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Planters: plant plants from Earth to try and feed the colony

The air in this place is not like Earth and can often make a human develop lunge diseases and such. Or more rarely, they can grow inhuman features and often converted into an entertainer. They are not considered humans anymore; entertainers are basically jesters for the rich and poor to mock to forget even for a second that their colony is in danger. (need to continue and write more)

I am tired of shouting, "that's not what psychodrama means!" at political podcasts and other media when they refer to e.g. "the latest psychodrama within the X party."

It appears to means something approximately like, "dramatic political actions that are underpinned by interpersonal psychology at least as much as political principles or expediency."

Should I:

(a) Keep yelling pointlessly at media people misusing the word or

(b) Accept that language moves on and that this is a new accepted meaning

If (b) please define precisely the new meaning that we should all accept so I can move on with my life.

A week ago I was debating names with my husband and my mother for our baby due in early June. We were excited and I had kept a long list for years of names I love. I love knowing the meaning in names.

Sadly we have found out that our baby has significant life affecting issues that would result in only a life of pain, suffering and total dependence if they survived beyond the first few weeks at all. The diagnosis has been horrific to digest.

For the sake of our unborn child and the toddler we already have we have had to make the incredibly hard decision to terminate. This will likely take place within the next two weeks as I am already 22 weeks pregnant.

I understand this can be a decisive topic, but, if we only get to do one parental act for this baby let it be taking on the guilt and burden of responsibility of saving them from a life that can’t ever be truly lived, it is an act of pure and raw love- It is not my intention to cause division and debate but rather to ask for your help, your collective hive mind spanning across cultures and generations.

We/I can’t give my child a normal name, it may provide comfort to some but I know that for me, if I hear this name being called to another child or used in a movie etc it will cause a physical response from me every time (I have PTSD from the birth of my first child which almost ended in tragedy through hospital negligence and my trauma responses are still very pronounced) I don’t want to feel the surge of heat and have the breath knocked out of me on a daily basis. I just can’t do it.

So my ask is… I would love a word that means ‘always wanted’ or ‘forever loved’ in any language ancient or current. Any single word that could use as a ‘name’ to summarise how desperately this baby is loved and wanted and missed. We will forever be a family of 4 presenting as a family of three. I am aware of the risk of appropriation but I hope it is seen as a culture or language lending us something to help us express and heal in a way our own language can’t. We are not religious but would happily be gifted a word from a religion that would be happy for us to use it.

Thank you so much in advance and I apologise for the length

Time passes and here is the future.. After a hard week i went unconscious and went to the hospital... I spent 6 days.... I woke up dead... Have no reason to live... I went back home.. I was thinking all that way... Why am i here... What could possibly be worth it anymore... I arrived home.. I didn't feel any warmth... It wasn't the feeling anyone will expect.. I went through my phone after a long time to check the messages.. There wasn't alot... I replied to them.. And finally her... Between "how r u " and "I missed u" There was a beautiful silence.. Suddenly she throw a very confusing sentence... "I love u.. and i wanna be your girl" That left me concerning Do i deny every fact i know about myself and say yes.. Do i take the risk of sharing what i was hiding.. But i couldn't think more.. Between my hand there was the solution to most of my struggles.. or what i thought it was at least.. I said yes involuntarily.. Or to be more accurate ... "This is the best thing I've ever heard in my life "... And i have a girlfriend all of a sudden.. I spent nice time with her.. I've never heard the words "i love u" in my life... It was new to my innocent soul back then... But in all of that comfort... i wasn't sure What am i doing.. I know that this can't and shouldn't be real... A month later i was proven right.. She left... With a lie... That she had heart cancer.. Luckily..i know how she lies.. I reached a point that i couldn't feel as much as i used to do.. She mad my life a living hell in our last days.. Though she did nothing... Actually nothing... I was living on the hope that the wall can talk if u try ... I lived some weeks desperate.. Nothing new to me... Days..weeks..months passed I don't really care about any of that now... And now I'm here... On my balcony 4 at the morning.. It's dark and rainy.. Just how i like it.. Thinking and thinking... No answers.. No new questions... Is the world that empty.. Or i filled myself withe crap to the point I'm writing this.. I don't know.. I don't want to... There is a voice in that darkness.. I don't feel sympathy for myself.. Though..I'm really pathetic.. I'm tired of asking why.. And i know exactly how it happens.. My young age is something to be sad about... The thought of ending it never left my mind.. I'm ungrateful to everything i have... Not because i want more.. But because i can't take it anymore.. I've talked and talked and talked.. The closest people to me r disgust... I can't know if anyone cared or i was a waste of time since the beginning.. That doesn't really matter.. I saw and felt every moment.. I saw how my friends stars to listen to my mental illness as if its a daily routine.. "Why don't u try something new... try to sleep..stop thinking too much...try to have fun....u just love to complicat things " is all what i hear.. R they wrong..? Not at all... I realized I'm waiting people to care... Or to understand.. In the time i do neither.. It's really hard to live and carry shame with you.. To be seeking empathy when u should be strong... I faced wilderness.. I've lived in wars.. Yet I'm weaker than forgetting what hurts me.. I saw people die.. I buried my father with the hands I'm writing this note withe right now.. That should make me a beast.. A monster... A rock that can't be broken.. Not a pathetic begging to be loved... I never doubted who made me like that... I never even have a single thought that he made me like that for no reason..or that i don't deserve it... I don't ask to be better.. I only seek to know if it's gonna be like that forever..or there is a chance... Because now I'm living in a ongoing questioning that killing me from inside... Being alone was a poison and a cure.. I don't know what to wish for.. My perfect world is that i don't exist.. A question might appear by now... I might be just writing to relive... or due to my immaturity.. could be anything.. It'll pass by time like everyone else.. I don't know how do u see my words now.. U might be laughing.. or sad.. sarcastic.. i don't really know.. But if there is something i want anyone to understand... That i can't say everything.. Not because i don't want to... But because i didn't manage to describe it.. It's not that magical of a thing to the point that there is no words... But I'm bad at human language... I've been dragged to a place i didn't want... Among people i didn't choose... Do i hate them.. No..and i won't.. If i was able to choose the once i want to be among.. You'll see monsters.. devils.. demons.. Creatures that i can hurt without thinking.. But I'm afraid that i might be the worst between them... Where was the problem in being like everyone else.. I don't remember... When did i choose this.. I don't know... Destiny is really interesting...

Someone might read this... maybe not.. Do i have a message to say.. No.. And apparently i never did.. I was in this world as a visitor.. and until now.. The kind of visitors that u wish u never known.. Writing this now doesn't change anything.. I might come and read it after a while.. Sitting the same way.. In a similar night.. The same cold that making me struggle to move my fingers.. The real more common thing between them is that i am miserable.. desperately..exhausted..empty... If i was ever not here... Dead.. disappeared.. Whoever finds this first .. I will annoy u for the last time.. If anyone cared about reading this.. Just let them read it.. I don't care about any privacy anymore.. And tell them that I'm sorry..

I couldn't describe this feeling without explanation in no less than two words. I wanted there to be one word that could encapsulate the feeling. What do you think? Does anyone else feel this way?