doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 days agoIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.message-squaremessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down16
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 days agoThe SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 days agoYeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
minus-squareContriteErudite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoI am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
minus-squareSmeagol666@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoMaybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
minus-squaredoomslang@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoI’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
The SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
Yeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
I am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
Maybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
I’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.