Verboticisms

Created by: artgoddess80

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Etymology: Vertias is truth. Vertex is intersection.

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum

Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.

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Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: con-VAL-i-JENS

Sentence: Instances of convaligence are rare, but are renowned as the pinnacles of life, or the beginnings of religions.

Etymology: 'convergence' + 'val-' [from valid, validity]

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Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: pan-WHERE-it-ahs

Sentence: The panveritas overwhelmed me in a great mind-reeling jolt, and I was overcome by simultaneous empathy and self-satisfaction.

Etymology: pan- -- Greek, "all" veritas -- Latin, "truth"

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈθɛksəs/

Sentence: At a thexus, all of today's verboticisms would be correct.

Etymology: From the- (as in thesis, theory, theorem, and theology) + nexus

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COMMENTS:

But how can they all be right? That's impossible... - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:19:00

Not at a thexus. All truths are valid, even false ones. As Malaclypse the younger once said, "I don't know man, I didn't do it." - ErWenn, 2007-04-20: 15:04:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: kiss/mesh

Sentence: I knew it was kismesh when the toast fell on the floor butter side up.

Etymology: kismet (destiny) + mesh (coming together)

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COMMENTS:

very clever pinwheel - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 13:30:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: poiynt-ov-vyew-toe-pee-ah

Sentence: for the first time ever, our family get together had not disentegrated into a slanging match, and everyone left feeling amiable....it was as if we had been in some sort of pointofviewtopia

Etymology: point of view, utopia

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COMMENTS:

Is that like being at the point of utopia, but not quite actually getting there? - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:21:00

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Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Paw-Lee-Vare-It-Ism

Sentence: With an exclamation of joy, Polly realized that they were both right, and that moment was a polyveritism!

Etymology: Poly; veritas; umm..ism

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: yoōtōpēə

Sentence: Yes, that*s right. You are correct. In fact you are correct about everything. You are perfect. It is youtopia! And then the alarm clock goes off.

Etymology: you (pronoun used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing) utopia (an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect)

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COMMENTS:

You Knowpia! - Nosila, 2009-11-06: 22:34:00

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum

Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.

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