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.
New Word:
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
New Word:
Satisfaction + Fiction
Satisfiction
= Short-lived perfection; The happy ending you believed in completely…until you realized the mistakes you made.