{"id":88,"date":"2006-05-27T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T02:04:30","slug":"the-neologistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"The neologistas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEver since I arrived at fellow blogger Dave Bacon<\/a>‘s house on Tuesday, the Pontiff and I have been tossing around ideas for a joint blog initiative. Finally we hit on something: since we’re both neologistas — people who enjoy spending their free time coining new words — we decided to compile a list of the neologisms we’d most like to see adopted by the general population. Without further ado:<\/p>\n

shnood:<\/strong> (roughly) an imposter; a person oblivious to just how trivial or wrong his ideas are.<\/p>\n

“Were there any interesting speakers at the conference?”
\n“No, just a bunch of shnoods<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“The magazine New Scientist<\/em> loves to feature shnoods<\/em> on the cover.”<\/p>\n

Note: someone who’s utterly contemptible would not<\/em> be a shnood, but rather a schmuck.<\/p>\n

iriterie:<\/strong> a list or compilation of people named Irit.<\/p>\n

See the comments on the last post<\/a> for an example of an iriterie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

extralusionary intelligence:<\/strong> intelligence in one domain that is misapplied in another.<\/p>\n

“Bob’s a brilliant physicist — I bet he’s onto something with his condensed-matter approach to P versus NP.”
\n“No, he’s just suffering from extralusionary intelligence<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

circumpolitical:<\/strong> So far to one end of the political spectrum that one is actually on the other end.<\/p>\n

“Professor Zimmerman mounted a circumpolitical<\/em> defense of hereditary dictatorship, female genital mutilation, and the dragging of murdered homosexuals through the streets, arguing that we have no right to condemn these indigenous practices of non-Western peoples.”<\/p>\n

philosonomicon:<\/strong> A philosophical prolegomenon.<\/p>\n

Dave’s PhD thesis<\/a> begins with a philosonomicon<\/em>, as does mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

high-hanging fruit:<\/strong> the opposite of low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n

“Do you ever think about the Nonabelian Hidden Subgroup Problem?”
\n“No, that’s high-hanging fruit<\/em>. I like to watch other people jump for it.”<\/p>\n

napotonin:<\/strong> any substance that makes you want to nap.<\/p>\n

“Ohhhh … must’ve been a lot of napotonin<\/em> in that calzone … can’t work … unnngghhhh”<\/p>\n

nontrivia:<\/strong> the opposite of trivia.<\/p>\n

“If you’re so smart, how come you’re no good at Trivial Pursuit?”
\n“Because I prefer to fill my brain with nontrivia<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In an effort to speed up the adoption of these words by the Oxford English Dictionary, Dave and I hereby ask that every comment on this post correctly use at least one of them. Also, while you’re welcome to crack the obvious jokes (“Scott is a shnood,” “Dave suffers from extralusionary intelligence,” etc.), be aware that we’ve just preempted them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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