Coinage

New Word:

squander verb – waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner.

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quandary noun  – a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.

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Squandary

A dilemma caused by wasted opportunities/resources

 

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gobbledygook noun – Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms; nonsense.

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geeky adjective – Unfashionable and socially inept, knowledgeable, and obsessively interested in something, especially technology.

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Gobbledygeek

Obsession specific nerd dialects including vocabulary, concepts, history, and characters little known outside the community. Fluency is required to participate, also functions like a “retina scan” for acceptance.
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Slacker + Activities

Slacktivities

= Sweatpants based behavior. Apathy in motion. Cozy idleness, whatever you are not paying attention to doing in the background while absorbed in texting. Tasks requiring less than 15% of your attention bandwidth.

 

 

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travesty noun – a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.

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tragedy noun – an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

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Tragesty:

Too absurd to be simply a tragedy, too awful to be merely a travesty. (See contemporary American politics)

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Snivlets

= fleeting self-pity, micro-bursts of sniveling. The individual raindrops of negative thought that collectively power lowered expectations. Unfairness pills. The seeds of tomorrow’s inertia.

 

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Cheapskate

Noun
a stingy person

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Landscape 

Noun
all the visible features of an area of countryside or land often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

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Cheapscape

= How the world looks when you never repair infrastructure. The aesthetic taste of the 1%

 

 

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Solipsism
noun

Extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption.

Machismo
noun

a strong or exaggerated sense of power or the right to dominate:

Solipsismo

= A gut feeling that your gut cannot be wrong. Asserting authority and neglecting preparation based on intuition. Dale Carnegie meets the Dunning–Kruger effect.

See Trumpery

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New Word:

Satisfaction +  Fiction

Satisfiction

= Short-lived perfection; The happy ending you believed in completely…until you realized the mistakes you made.

 

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