Sunday, November 16, 2003
Misread cool word for 11/16/2003
Just a quick thing I thought about while studiously avoiding work on my NaNoWriMo project....
Every so often I see a word, usually something silly yet punnish yet clever yet slick, that makes me think: now the guy who thought of that was a genius. Then I take a closer look at it and see that the word was, in fact, not what I thought it was at all, that I misread it, and it's actually some other, less cool, coinage, or even a perfectly ordinary word out on loan from Merriam-Webster. Meaning that the word came from my own head, so maybe I'm the genius, but wait no, I didn't think of it purposefully, it just sort of happened... I feel guilty about claiming the words, but I still feel a kind of parental attachment to them.
Anyway, the Misread Cool Word for today is:
Stoogehenge: an ancient druidic site that tells date through the working of sun and shadow filtered through the special placement of giant stone slabs, constructed entirely through the random action of comically violent workers.
Just a quick thing I thought about while studiously avoiding work on my NaNoWriMo project....
Every so often I see a word, usually something silly yet punnish yet clever yet slick, that makes me think: now the guy who thought of that was a genius. Then I take a closer look at it and see that the word was, in fact, not what I thought it was at all, that I misread it, and it's actually some other, less cool, coinage, or even a perfectly ordinary word out on loan from Merriam-Webster. Meaning that the word came from my own head, so maybe I'm the genius, but wait no, I didn't think of it purposefully, it just sort of happened... I feel guilty about claiming the words, but I still feel a kind of parental attachment to them.
Anyway, the Misread Cool Word for today is:
Stoogehenge: an ancient druidic site that tells date through the working of sun and shadow filtered through the special placement of giant stone slabs, constructed entirely through the random action of comically violent workers.
