Konietzko Flash | kōˈnētskō fllaSH | noun
a psychological event, acute in its onset and accompanied by intense anger, in which a person realizes that the woman they dated back in 1994 was the one who stole their now-out-of-print KMFDM albums, goddammit; typically followed by an urge to drive to South Carolina and get the CDs back
“What’s up with Michael?”
“Oh, he’s having a Konietzko Flash.”
“Is… is that why he’s stealing my car?”
metaphasia |ˌmedəˈfāZH(ē)ə| noun
A loss or inability to produce or understand speech about the loss or inability to produce or understand speech, often caused by damage to the brain, often caused by damage to the brain.
Schütz•ling•en•ab•fahrts•weh•mut | ˈsho͞otslingˌɪnˈapfärtsˈvāmo͞ot | noun.
The wistful ambivalence one feels upon the departure of a protégé.
(Note: a loan word from German speakers in another possible world.)
“How’s June feeling?”
“Oh, y’know. Schützlingenabfahrtswehmut.”
“…What?”
scat•o•man•cy |ˈskatəˌmansē| noun.
The ability to anticipate, generate, and deploy bullshit, particularly for one’s own ends in the exercise of policies within vertically organized institutional structures.
“My scatomancy was really tested this month by that proposal.”
met•a•pan•ic |,metə’panik| noun. an acute and sudden episode of anxiety brought on by the realization that one has so many enormously demanding things to do that one is probably forgetting something that one should be worrying about at that moment
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