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Difficult words

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, Saturday, July 20, 2024.

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I just know I’m going to have logoparalysis about logoparalysis next time I have logoparalysis about a different word and want to say I’m experiencing logoparalysis.

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- Say logoparalysis ONE MORE TIME
  
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  Why do you want me to say logoparalysis?
  
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I'm sensing a theme...

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I conflated conflagration with conflation 🤦‍♂️

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- Steve Erikson wrote this comment
  
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- Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
  
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Some reading related to logoparalysis https://introvertdear.com/news/the-science-behind-why-introverts-struggle-to-speak/

If you’ve always done this and not just as you’re getting older, then it’s more likely neurodivergent behavior vs developing Alzheimer’s or dementia. But as with all things related to health in some way, confirm with a doctor

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I'm convinced the ulterior motive of this comic artist is drip feeding nonsensical words into the hivemind

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I checked and logoparalysis isn't a real word (I guess none of these are?), but it should be. We need a word for the inability to find words.

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- Don't know about the others but conflagration most definitely is an actual word
  
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  Any notorious fire mage knows that one.
  
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- Lol, "not a real word"? They are right there in front of you in print with a definition and being used. That's literally all it takes to be a real word.
  
  You, your grade school vocabulary, and your abridged dictionary aren't gatekeepers of the lexicon. Dictionaries describe the words people use. Dictionaries absolutely do not prescribe what are real words and which are made up, unless you're French (but even that is a lie). ALL WORDS ARE MADE UP.
  
  Not a real word? Fucking hilarious.
  
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  Fair point. Use it enough and it ends up in the dictionary anyway!
  
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  I think more to the point is that there's already a word with this meaning.
  
  anomia
  
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  They are right there in front of you in print with a definition and being used. That's literally all it takes to be a real word.
  
  Not eeeexactly, or perhaps, not only that, always. I'd say it takes several people using it. But this would be used by several people, and just us discussing and using the word in the given context already would have rendered enough use for it to be "a real word".
  
  Easily coined latin words aside, how is "conflagration" a hard word? I'm pretty sure it's quite commonly used as well. Moreso in literature than in everyday speech, but still I hold it's a rather common word.
  
  Around 1800-1850 "conflagration" was more used of a word than "hospitality" was around the 1970's.
  
  https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conflagration%2Clogoparalysis%2Chospitality&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
  
  "Logoparalysis" yields no results. So, regardless of how you define "real" words, the Ngram viewer definitely gives good info on their potential past usage
  
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- Anomie is a real word and it is fascinating to read about, if you're into sociology.
  
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Oh, fiery little sprite Conflagration in the night Don't play games with your sight If it leaves you in the dark

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huh, so american politics is in a state of anomie

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