October 5, 2024 • 24 mins
We promulgate and elucidate ten arcane, recondite, and enigmatic lexemes we believe warrant greater attention in the marketing realm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking Human Today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On Speaking Human, we promulgate and elucidate ten arcane, recondite
and enigmatic lexims. We believe warn't greater attention in the
marketing realm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Speaking Human.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome to Speaking Human, where we simplify the world of
marketing for humans. I'm Shad Conmly and with me is
my co host Patrick Jebber. Now, Patrick, you recently shared
an unusual word that popped, or maybe I should say,
smashed into your world. Do you want to share that
(00:47):
word with us today with the listeners here I'm Speaking Human.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that's definestration. You heard that, right, definestration.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
What is that word? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, definestration is a noun, and it's the act of
throwing someone or something out of a window. And that
is the essence of what caused me to send you
that word. And I was like, how odd that a
word is so specific, oddly specific? Right, It's like this
word means one thing, and it's so niche that it's like,
(01:20):
whoever uses this word? When are you ever in a
situation where you're like defenestration, That's what that was. So yeah,
that led us down this rabbit hole of words unusually
specific because we have covered other words on our podcast.
We've covered acronyms and memes and the gen X and
the gen Z and you know, the different words that
(01:42):
have come up in social media lately. So we've covered
a lot of these different things. It's language, right, It's what.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
We do as marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We brand things visually, and we brand things by using
language verbally. Language is key. Words are key, and therefore
would it be interesting episode or a cool episode to
just sort of explore a handful of words that we
just don't maybe use all that much for any number
of reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
There was like no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It didn't have to be marketing related, right, No.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Not necessarily, though they could be, you know, words that
you could use more in marketing. You know, it's kind
of one of the ways I thought about it, one
of the lenses. But it's interesting with like defenestration, it's
almost like a crack. You see this one word and
it kind of opens up this world and then you're like,
oh my god, there's just so many words out there
that we don't even use. I know, I look at
(02:35):
a lot of marketing pieces all the time, and it's
kind of the same language. A lot of the time,
you see these kind of buzzwords that people even joke
about that are just so like overused. When there are
hundreds of thousands of words out there, a lot of
them we just don't even think about, don't even know,
you know, some of them that probably ninety nine percent
of the population or more just is completely unaware that
(02:57):
they exist, some because they're some because they're so old,
and some because they're just so obscure. So it's just
you go down that rabbit hole. It's just like, well,
maybe we need to give some of these other words
more play. So well, let's talk about what we're doing here.
We each kind of picked out five, what we'd say, unique, obscure,
off the beaten pathwords we think should get a little
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more play. These could be old time words, words that
have gone out of fashion, or just words people don't
use enough or don't even know exist. They could even
be like you talked about, kind of new or evolved words,
you know, mixes of words, words that have gotten smashed
together or combined however they've emerged, just things you generally
don't hear enough. So whatever definition you have of that,
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we kind of left this pretty wide open, but we
each chose five that we're going to share here today.
So that being said, Patrick, this could go anywhere. I'm
excited to hear where it goes. Do you want to
start us down this path?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Sure, So I will say this up front. It was
really funny, you know. I was kind of going on
this like research expedition, if you will, and I went online,
you know, typical search engine rabbit hole. I even asked
chat GPT. Interesting thing about when I asked chat GPT
to just kind of throw some words out that it
thinks that are sort of in this vein. One of
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the very first words it gave me was defenestration. Isn't
that strange?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like what?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Because that word, when it came to me was like
word of the day kind of things. So the first
word on my list is one that I had never
heard before, but I really liked the meaning. It's para
pros dokian. Have you ever heard of this word?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Never heard it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No? So, paraprosdokian is a sentence or a statement with
an unexpected ending. It means against expectations in Greek, and
typically puts the first part of the sentence in a
new and humorous context. So it's kind of hard to
understand the meaning until you hear an example. So I
brought examples.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, examples are always good.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So this is a sentence from Graucho Marx. He says
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Mitch Hedberg had this to say, I haven't slept for
ten days because that would be too long. Rodney Dangerfield
another example. When I was a kid, my parents moved
a lot, but I always found them. So takes first
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part of the sentence, makes it humorous with a little
clutch punchline. Right, So that is a Paraprosdochian.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
That's good to know. So now when you hear one
of those, you can identify it and everybody around you
will be pretty impressed.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Fantastic though, because I never thought about that. But a
lot of comedy is built around that, right.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, definitely a thing. So before I get my first one,
I'll say one kind of caveat we're throwing these out,
we're talking about they should get more play. To some extent,
I think we need more interesting words out there. There's
kind of also a reason they're not used that much. Yeah,
and that's most people don't know. They're not easily digestible.
There's a reason we don't use them in communication or marketing,
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or we use the same words, and that's because you
don't have to explain those words to people. You don't
have to take the time or put in the work
to explain what they actually are. But some of these things,
for the right brand or campaign, at the right moment,
you could use them in some way, I think, And
I'll kind of hit on that with my first one
a little bit. Which is a word Patrick, we've discussed before.
(06:26):
I think maybe it was you, maybe it was somebody else.
Caddy wampus, Mmm, caddywampus. Yeah, Yeah, I once bought a
record for the sole reason the band was named caddywampus.
This is actually a variation of catawampus. The meaning of
this word is going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction. So,
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like we talked about examples, I didn't need this, especially
on a morning when everything else had already started out
going caddywampus. So this just has a great strange you know,
you think of it, it almost sounds like a strange creature,
you know, And that's when I think of we talked
about is there a marketing use for this? You think
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of Caddywampus could be a creature who messes up your life.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, it's like Crampus. Yeah, but caddywampus.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But caddy wampus. What I like.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
About caddy wampus is it's easy, it's easy to say,
it's fun. It feels like a witty, sort of like
whimsical term, you know, as opposed to something that feels
heavy like paraprosdochian is kind of hard to say.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You're probably more likely to remember caddy wampus, yeah, than
your word that I already cannot remember because there's too
many syllables.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There are words out there with a lot of salables.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So it's interesting. Our approaches to this, I think will
be different. So you would be seeing a good variation
of words. So what do you got? What do you
got next?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So this one is is a lot like the last one,
and it's very difficult. There are a few on my
list that I had to go out out and see,
how do you pronounce this word? I stumbled down this
rabbit hole. There's a guy on TikTok. His name's Don Hughley,
and he actually does the daily word as his TikTok chanlenge.
He's got this really like it's kind of like the
(08:14):
old movie man voice. It's like very like soothing, warm
and almost sultry if you could say that, you know,
if we're using words that I don't typically use. So
I went down this rabbit hole and then I stumbled
on him to help me pronounce this word. So it's
quomo doaquin ice. Say it again, quomo doquin ice do
(08:36):
quinn qwie so quote mo do quin qwise. So it's
quo m o d o c u n q u
i ze. Talk about a word, right, it's hard, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
One of the reasons why it's probably not used. This
word is technically now what they consider obsolete. It was
recorded in the mid sixteen hundreds. It's meaning is or
was to make money in any way possible. So if
you were to use it, it's very difficult, you know,
like if you were to use a part of this word,
(09:13):
you'd have to be like spitting it out right, like
that guy was all about quo modoqua nine quick eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Again, it's all about the cuomo doc.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
The end is where you really get tripped up on
the ton.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah, the conquis.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
One of the things I liked about it was that
it is so expensive to say that's the way I
would describe it, right, It's so hard to say it's expensive.
You choose words in your daily sentences for efficacy. You
are trying to be efficient. You choose your words for
a couple of different reasons. One, I think because of
(09:50):
your like maybe limited vocabulary, or just the breadth of
your vocabulary.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It might not be limited.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The other reason why you choose words is because you
know that other people know the meaning of those words.
When you choose a word that is like really off
the beaten path, it almost feels foreign. And so we
choose words sometimes because of the familiarity that we know
the audience has, you know, so you have to be careful.
(10:16):
You don't want to use a word that's too foreign
that it creates this like distance between you and the audience.
You want them to feel it. You want it to
create emotion, but you don't want to be like the
people be like what the hell does that mean?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, and that's a good. That makes me think, what
if there was a brand and they came to expect
this from you. What ich part of your brand voice
became These guys always pepper in these obscure words, you know. Yeah,
that's like your thing, and that's what people know you by,
and they know that each time you communicate with them,
(10:48):
you're going to have to break out the dictionary or
they're going to throw something at you. Maybe you're going
to learn something, you know, and that's kind of what
makes you interesting. That's kind of a unique idea that
I haven't really done.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, and in some ways, like the guy who I
was mentioning that Don Hughley, that's his personal brand, right
because he always has these words that are kind of
off the beaten path, and then he pronounces them, he
tells you what the meaning is. That's kind of his brand, right,
is exactly what you're describing. But if you were an agency,
even just a big brand like Coca Cola, suddenly you know,
(11:22):
like I always learned stuff when Coke puts out their
ads because I'm like, I'd never heard that word before.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, it'd be tough for a
brand like that. Yeah, but like an upstart brand, you know,
who's trying to make a name for himself, I could
see something like that. Yeah, so you mentioned, you know,
a couple of the places you were you were looking
or finding information. I'll throw out a couple of mind.
One of them, Wayne State University I landed on, has
a very extensive list of words that deserve wider use.
(11:51):
Also a word a day. There's dots in between each
of those. The archive at wordsmith dot org. Do you
go to this website. It looks like it's nineteen nine there.
They also have like kind of a you know, get
a word each day subscription. Really interesting how they kind
of break down each word, the information they give you,
kind of the etymology, the examples they give you are
(12:11):
real good with each word. I really like that website,
so I spend some time there too. That's a lot
of fun. So check those out. Anyway. Let me get
you my next word. I gave you an adjective slash
adverb with my first one. Let me give you a
noun here. This one love. The sound of it sounds
a little threatening, yet the meaning it's the complete opposite
of that. This word is rip staver rip staver, rip
(12:36):
staver Ooh okay, it's got the va dav Yeah, the
V is very threatening. So you're probably thinking that's that's terrifying.
I don't want the ripstaver to come for me. And
then you find out the meaning something or someone remarkable.
Let me give you the example. Monty tells me you
three are real rip stavers, and he doesn't say that
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very often about anybody. You must have impressed him, So
that one is one of these examples of something. You know,
you get a feeling from a word and then the
meaning is kind of the complete opposite of that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I like that you chose something that sounds very threatening,
but is the opposite means the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's the idea that you know, we have an impression
of a word before we know what it actually means.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, very human right, As they say, never judge a
book by its cover, never judge a word by its letters.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's gonna be on T shirts soon if you put
that in in kind of marketing, what could you do
with ripstamer? I think this could be a good product name.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It actually could something remarkable.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, it means something remarkable. It's got kind of a
cool sounding name.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
M h.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think even the look when I look at the
letters and how they go together. I think there's some
some potential there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I think about the remarkable notepad you know that's
out there, that product. Oh yeah, So I have a word.
It's a little easier on the ears.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Okay, what about the tongue.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And the tongue it's easier to say, And this would
be limerence limerens. Yeah, l I M E r e
ncee very easy.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Any relation to limericks, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This is the state of being infatuated or obsessed with
another person, characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation, not
always or not necessarily romantically. And really the only reason
why I chose it was I like the sound of
the word. You know, limerence feels like that.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, no, that's a good one. I do like that,
you know. That's part of the reason. As it was
going through words and some of the ones even I
didn't choose, but I came close to. It was really
just because I liked the rhythm that they had or
how they sounded, and I'm like, why don't we use
these more? They have a great sound to them. They
just roll off very nicely.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's important, you know, especially if you're gonna use it
again if you want to pull this out from the archives,
the depths, the vaults of word obscurity, and you say,
I'm going to use this word. That's important that it
has a nice flow.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, I agree. So my next word another adjective. I
wanted to get in something newer, you know, one of
these like new fangled slangy kind of terms that's made
its way into the vernacular. So this word is kind
of surprising in the sense that it's not surprising. It's
exactly what it sounds like, which is odd when you
hear the word and the word is.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Chefy c h e f f y okay, chefy, cheffy
feels good.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
What's it mean?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Means relating to or characteristic of a chef chefy. So
example would be there are no trendy ingredients or chefy tricks.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, Like you use it that way in a sentence.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You could just say, like, it's a very simple recipe,
there's nothing chefy about it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
So you know, if you had if you if you
wanted to use it marketing, this one's pretty easy, I think.
In this would also, you know, translate to the younger generation.
I tend to lean towards like the example I just
gave you, using it almost in the more negative term,
like you don't need to be chefy to eat great food,
or you don't need to be chefy to make a
healthy dish. But you could also in the more positive sense,
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be like make a chefy meal in an instant. Yeah,
you know, something like that. But it's got a very snappy,
simple ring to it. And again it sounds almost more
exotic than it is, which is just a very simple word.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, you could say something like Betty is so chefy.
I mean everything Betty does is chefy, super cheffy. That
Betty I like, super chefy. If we could say super
at the beginning of sheffy, Oh yeah, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That could even be a brand super chefy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Super chefy by Hello Fresh.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's I like that a lot. I like that you
pulled something that is Is that an official word or
is it in the addiction?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I believe it is. I think I think, so okay,
we'll say it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm putting it in. It's it. No, it's it. I'm
putting it in what do you got next?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
My next word?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Really, the main reason why I chose is just it
conjured a feeling for me. And this is a word
that's very specific to an instant or an instance.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Petricore. Have you ever heard of this term? Petricore?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
No, I haven't. Petricore p e t.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Ri c h o r petricre. It is the scent
produced when rain falls on dry soil, so that pleasant
smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long
period of warm, dry weather, and in a sentence, other
than the petricre emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there
was not a trace of evidence that it had rained
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at all. I could smell it. As I was reading
the definition, I said to myself, I have to use
this word. Didn't know that that was a thing. I
didn't know there was a word that described that sensation.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I love that that's a word. I almost think it
should have a more beautiful word apociate.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It, you know, Yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Petrikor's not bad and it gives you something, but yeah,
I almost think it should be something more like limerens. Yeah,
you know, something that's more a little more lyrical, and
you're like or poetic.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I agree, I wholeheartedly agree with that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Because when I heard the definition, though, I was like,
I love I love that definition. I love that there's
a word for that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I thought you might hopefully our listeners agree with us, Petrokore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So my next one is where I'm going very Nietzsche
along the lines of defenestration. You know something that's usage
is a very very tiny window. That word is you kaligan.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You spell that U you c A L E g
O N.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Now, this word's got some it's got some Greek origins
in ancient Greece. Youkalagan was one of the elders of
Troy whose house was set afire by the kayans Akayans.
His house was set of fire anyway, when the city
was sacked. Okay, so the meaning of ukalagan now is
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a neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So yeah, we've got a word for that. Give you
an example. As the wildfire raged on, the residents of
the town watched in despair, knowing that their ukalaigan's fate
was uncertain. So again, very limited. You're not gonna be
able to use this one every day. Unless you know
your neighbor's house is on fire or burns down every day.
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But possible usage in marketing. Think about this. You get
a commercial or maybe an ad. Are you tired of
uklagans bringing you down? We cut to neighbors screaming my
house is burning, my house is burning, And the next
thing you see is get noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right, yeah, I see where you're going there. What I
find the most fascinating about that is that it is
a very limited window of.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Time, like micro and I found.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Words like that that I thought, that's so interesting. It's
a little bit like defenestration because definestration is very specific.
But then you have those words that are very specific
and also specific to a moment in time. How is
that even possible? How do we have a word like that?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, I'd probably put that even in the category of
do we need that word?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There is something maybe you were like you're running to
get to get help, and then you're out of breath
and you want to tell them I have this neighbor
whose house is on fire. But that's a lot of
words to get out. Instead, you could be like you
cala gun, Like oh, my god, your neighbor's house is on.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Fire, and that's probably what happened. Then they were running
and they're like pointing at his house and they're like
you and then it was like house on fire equals
eucaligon as they're pointing, you know, something very similar to that.
And this isn't one of my words I chose, but
I found this what I was researching, and it's kind
of like that is very specific to a time period,
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is antebellum. It relates to things right before the American
Civil War, which I think is crazy because the word
could technically be used for a time before any war,
but it's not. It's generally used to relate to things
before the American Civil War. And Antebellum, as I mean,
I've heard that word before, mainly, to be honest, is
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like Lady Antebellum, which is the musical group, or there's
like Antebellum, the horror movie that came out in twenty twenty.
Beyond that, you never really hear it. But I think
it's interesting that it's specific to the time period and
there were a multitude of those, like Antidiluvian was relating
to things before the Biblical flood anyway threw into honorable mentions.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Apparently there I know under that sneaking him in there.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But my last word that I chose was bor borboigamis, borboregamus.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Bor bo r y g m us but borgamis. And
this for no other reason than I thought. I didn't
know that there was a word associated with the rumbling
or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and
gas in the intestines. Another definition says the gurgling, rumbling,
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or squeaking noise from the abdomen that is caused by
the movement of gas through the bowels. I love that
they chose squeaking as part of that definition. And it's
a medical definition obviously, because it's talking about the gurgling
in your stomach. Never knew that it was borborgamus, borboorgimis.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I didn't know an neither. That's it. That's a good one.
A little bit of automatopm there where the word kind
of sounds like the sound you're hearing in your stomach,
you know, you could say, which I like, there's kind
of like a repetitive shaking going on with that word.
It seems like it fits, you know, where I was
saying the last word that doesn't quite go with that.
This one, I feel like it goes with what we're
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talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I think to myself, how often I'm gonna use that now,
Like my stomach's growling in a meeting and I'm gonna
be like, oh, sorry about my boborega mess, Oh my
bborg mess.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's I think you just say the word and people
would be like, oh, okay, that would be a good
like Tom's commercial too.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Is your barboregamas causing problems in your meetings? Chews thumbs
not available in stores?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So for my last one had to finish out with
a verb. I haven't thrown any verbs out yet, so
this one short. It's got a weird sound to it,
a weird ring to it. But this is a great
example of how the origin of words can be really bizarre.
This word is grok, and this means to understand something,
So there was a lot to grock. The code is
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simple enough you should be able to grock what it does.
So here's where it gets interesting. The word groc comes
from the nineteen sixty one science fiction novel stranger in
a strange Land. In the book, the main character is
a Martian raised human who uses the word to convey
a deep understanding of something. So that's where we get
(24:21):
this word. That's where it originates. And now what is
fictional has become real in the sense that it's you know,
stumbled into our dictionary and now we have groc.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, it's a weird word. I mean, the word kind
of has that emotional feel to it. It sounds like
it is would you say.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't know if it sounds emotional like I think of,
like even a baby could grock it. I think of
Maybe I think of groot too much. I don't know
what to think. I get a Lord of the Rings
sense to it, but I also know that you know,
connection of it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I was thinking to myself, I know this word, and
I think I know this word because I'm pretty sure
you've used this word before. If it hasn't been in
a podcast episode, it might be awe air.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I have not used this word before. I guarantee you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm not. I'm not throwing around grocks.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I do feel like I have heard this word before, though,
but I don't know if I always knew the definition.
That's interesting about the alien. I feel like the alien's
name should have been Grock.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
His name is Valentine Michael Smith.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
No he's not. That's the alien's name. Yeah, no it's not.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It's not an alien. It's a Martian raised human.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, still, so.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I know you don't like honorable mentions, but I'll throw
you out a few things I thought about that I didn't.
I didn't end up going with at a trio of
adjectives that I liked. I just liked the sound of okay, loquacious, okay, eponymous, obsequious,
all similar ending, but I like the flow of those.
I got a couple. I got a noun and a
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verb that both end in lee that I thought about,
twaddle and bimble. Twaddle is trivial or foolish speech you're writing,
aka nonsense. Bimble is to walk at a leisurely pace.
And then, last, but not least, there were two types
of people. I thought about a fillocalyst, a lover of beauty.
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And you know this recent word that I think is
getting enough enough play. But I thought about this one
for a second, which is edge lord. This is a
person who takes an extreme persona online comes from like Edgy,
always kind of going with the hottest take the edge. Lord,
I think we're hearing this one a decent bit. But
I like this word. Fifty years from now, I think
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this is gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, those are some good, honorable mentions. Well hopefully, I
think these are all really good words.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You've expanded your vocabulary probably ten to twentyfold just in this,
you know, half hour of listening to this episode.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, well that's it for today's episode. We're about to abscratulate,
which is to leave abruptly or flee. But you can
find current and past episodes of the podcast on Speakinghuman
dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We'll be back in two weeks with another episode of
Speaking Human. Catch you then Anthropoids
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Speaking Human
Speaking Human Today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On Speaking Human, we promulgate and elucidate ten arcane, recondite
and enigmatic lexims. We believe warn't greater attention in the
marketing realm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Speaking Human.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome to Speaking Human, where we simplify the world of
marketing for humans. I'm Shad Conmly and with me is
my co host Patrick Jebber. Now, Patrick, you recently shared
an unusual word that popped, or maybe I should say,
smashed into your world. Do you want to share that
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word with us today with the listeners here I'm Speaking Human.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that's definestration. You heard that, right, definestration.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
What is that word? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, definestration is a noun, and it's the act of
throwing someone or something out of a window. And that
is the essence of what caused me to send you
that word. And I was like, how odd that a
word is so specific, oddly specific? Right, It's like this
word means one thing, and it's so niche that it's like,
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whoever uses this word? When are you ever in a
situation where you're like defenestration, That's what that was. So yeah,
that led us down this rabbit hole of words unusually
specific because we have covered other words on our podcast.
We've covered acronyms and memes and the gen X and
the gen Z and you know, the different words that
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have come up in social media lately. So we've covered
a lot of these different things. It's language, right, It's what.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
We do as marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We brand things visually, and we brand things by using
language verbally. Language is key. Words are key, and therefore
would it be interesting episode or a cool episode to
just sort of explore a handful of words that we
just don't maybe use all that much for any number
of reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
There was like no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It didn't have to be marketing related, right, No.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Not necessarily, though they could be, you know, words that
you could use more in marketing. You know, it's kind
of one of the ways I thought about it, one
of the lenses. But it's interesting with like defenestration, it's
almost like a crack. You see this one word and
it kind of opens up this world and then you're like,
oh my god, there's just so many words out there
that we don't even use. I know, I look at
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a lot of marketing pieces all the time, and it's
kind of the same language. A lot of the time,
you see these kind of buzzwords that people even joke
about that are just so like overused. When there are
hundreds of thousands of words out there, a lot of
them we just don't even think about, don't even know,
you know, some of them that probably ninety nine percent
of the population or more just is completely unaware that
(02:57):
they exist, some because they're some because they're so old,
and some because they're just so obscure. So it's just
you go down that rabbit hole. It's just like, well,
maybe we need to give some of these other words
more play. So well, let's talk about what we're doing here.
We each kind of picked out five, what we'd say, unique, obscure,
off the beaten pathwords we think should get a little
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more play. These could be old time words, words that
have gone out of fashion, or just words people don't
use enough or don't even know exist. They could even
be like you talked about, kind of new or evolved words,
you know, mixes of words, words that have gotten smashed
together or combined however they've emerged, just things you generally
don't hear enough. So whatever definition you have of that,
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we kind of left this pretty wide open, but we
each chose five that we're going to share here today.
So that being said, Patrick, this could go anywhere. I'm
excited to hear where it goes. Do you want to
start us down this path?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Sure, So I will say this up front. It was
really funny, you know. I was kind of going on
this like research expedition, if you will, and I went online,
you know, typical search engine rabbit hole. I even asked
chat GPT. Interesting thing about when I asked chat GPT
to just kind of throw some words out that it
thinks that are sort of in this vein. One of
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the very first words it gave me was defenestration. Isn't
that strange?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like what?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Because that word, when it came to me was like
word of the day kind of things. So the first
word on my list is one that I had never
heard before, but I really liked the meaning. It's para
pros dokian. Have you ever heard of this word?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Never heard it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No? So, paraprosdokian is a sentence or a statement with
an unexpected ending. It means against expectations in Greek, and
typically puts the first part of the sentence in a
new and humorous context. So it's kind of hard to
understand the meaning until you hear an example. So I
brought examples.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, examples are always good.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So this is a sentence from Graucho Marx. He says
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Mitch Hedberg had this to say, I haven't slept for
ten days because that would be too long. Rodney Dangerfield
another example. When I was a kid, my parents moved
a lot, but I always found them. So takes first
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part of the sentence, makes it humorous with a little
clutch punchline. Right, So that is a Paraprosdochian.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
That's good to know. So now when you hear one
of those, you can identify it and everybody around you
will be pretty impressed.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Fantastic though, because I never thought about that. But a
lot of comedy is built around that, right.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, definitely a thing. So before I get my first one,
I'll say one kind of caveat we're throwing these out,
we're talking about they should get more play. To some extent,
I think we need more interesting words out there. There's
kind of also a reason they're not used that much. Yeah,
and that's most people don't know. They're not easily digestible.
There's a reason we don't use them in communication or marketing,
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or we use the same words, and that's because you
don't have to explain those words to people. You don't
have to take the time or put in the work
to explain what they actually are. But some of these things,
for the right brand or campaign, at the right moment,
you could use them in some way, I think, And
I'll kind of hit on that with my first one
a little bit. Which is a word Patrick, we've discussed before.
(06:26):
I think maybe it was you, maybe it was somebody else.
Caddy wampus, Mmm, caddywampus. Yeah, Yeah, I once bought a
record for the sole reason the band was named caddywampus.
This is actually a variation of catawampus. The meaning of
this word is going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction. So,
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like we talked about examples, I didn't need this, especially
on a morning when everything else had already started out
going caddywampus. So this just has a great strange you know,
you think of it, it almost sounds like a strange creature,
you know, And that's when I think of we talked
about is there a marketing use for this? You think
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of Caddywampus could be a creature who messes up your life.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, it's like Crampus. Yeah, but caddywampus.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But caddy wampus. What I like.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
About caddy wampus is it's easy, it's easy to say,
it's fun. It feels like a witty, sort of like
whimsical term, you know, as opposed to something that feels
heavy like paraprosdochian is kind of hard to say.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You're probably more likely to remember caddy wampus, yeah, than
your word that I already cannot remember because there's too
many syllables.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There are words out there with a lot of salables.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So it's interesting. Our approaches to this, I think will
be different. So you would be seeing a good variation
of words. So what do you got? What do you
got next?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So this one is is a lot like the last one,
and it's very difficult. There are a few on my
list that I had to go out out and see,
how do you pronounce this word? I stumbled down this
rabbit hole. There's a guy on TikTok. His name's Don Hughley,
and he actually does the daily word as his TikTok chanlenge.
He's got this really like it's kind of like the
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old movie man voice. It's like very like soothing, warm
and almost sultry if you could say that, you know,
if we're using words that I don't typically use. So
I went down this rabbit hole and then I stumbled
on him to help me pronounce this word. So it's
quomo doaquin ice. Say it again, quomo doquin ice do
(08:36):
quinn qwie so quote mo do quin qwise. So it's
quo m o d o c u n q u
i ze. Talk about a word, right, it's hard, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
One of the reasons why it's probably not used. This
word is technically now what they consider obsolete. It was
recorded in the mid sixteen hundreds. It's meaning is or
was to make money in any way possible. So if
you were to use it, it's very difficult, you know,
like if you were to use a part of this word,
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you'd have to be like spitting it out right, like
that guy was all about quo modoqua nine quick eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Again, it's all about the cuomo doc.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
The end is where you really get tripped up on
the ton.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah, the conquis.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
One of the things I liked about it was that
it is so expensive to say that's the way I
would describe it, right, It's so hard to say it's expensive.
You choose words in your daily sentences for efficacy. You
are trying to be efficient. You choose your words for
a couple of different reasons. One, I think because of
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your like maybe limited vocabulary, or just the breadth of
your vocabulary.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It might not be limited.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The other reason why you choose words is because you
know that other people know the meaning of those words.
When you choose a word that is like really off
the beaten path, it almost feels foreign. And so we
choose words sometimes because of the familiarity that we know
the audience has, you know, so you have to be careful.
(10:16):
You don't want to use a word that's too foreign
that it creates this like distance between you and the audience.
You want them to feel it. You want it to
create emotion, but you don't want to be like the
people be like what the hell does that mean?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, and that's a good. That makes me think, what
if there was a brand and they came to expect
this from you. What ich part of your brand voice
became These guys always pepper in these obscure words, you know. Yeah,
that's like your thing, and that's what people know you by,
and they know that each time you communicate with them,
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you're going to have to break out the dictionary or
they're going to throw something at you. Maybe you're going
to learn something, you know, and that's kind of what
makes you interesting. That's kind of a unique idea that
I haven't really done.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, and in some ways, like the guy who I
was mentioning that Don Hughley, that's his personal brand, right
because he always has these words that are kind of
off the beaten path, and then he pronounces them, he
tells you what the meaning is. That's kind of his brand, right,
is exactly what you're describing. But if you were an agency,
even just a big brand like Coca Cola, suddenly you know,
(11:22):
like I always learned stuff when Coke puts out their
ads because I'm like, I'd never heard that word before.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, it'd be tough for a
brand like that. Yeah, but like an upstart brand, you know,
who's trying to make a name for himself, I could
see something like that. Yeah, so you mentioned, you know,
a couple of the places you were you were looking
or finding information. I'll throw out a couple of mind.
One of them, Wayne State University I landed on, has
a very extensive list of words that deserve wider use.
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Also a word a day. There's dots in between each
of those. The archive at wordsmith dot org. Do you
go to this website. It looks like it's nineteen nine there.
They also have like kind of a you know, get
a word each day subscription. Really interesting how they kind
of break down each word, the information they give you,
kind of the etymology, the examples they give you are
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real good with each word. I really like that website,
so I spend some time there too. That's a lot
of fun. So check those out. Anyway. Let me get
you my next word. I gave you an adjective slash
adverb with my first one. Let me give you a
noun here. This one love. The sound of it sounds
a little threatening, yet the meaning it's the complete opposite
of that. This word is rip staver rip staver, rip
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staver Ooh okay, it's got the va dav Yeah, the
V is very threatening. So you're probably thinking that's that's terrifying.
I don't want the ripstaver to come for me. And
then you find out the meaning something or someone remarkable.
Let me give you the example. Monty tells me you
three are real rip stavers, and he doesn't say that
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very often about anybody. You must have impressed him, So
that one is one of these examples of something. You know,
you get a feeling from a word and then the
meaning is kind of the complete opposite of that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I like that you chose something that sounds very threatening,
but is the opposite means the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's the idea that you know, we have an impression
of a word before we know what it actually means.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, very human right, As they say, never judge a
book by its cover, never judge a word by its letters.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's gonna be on T shirts soon if you put
that in in kind of marketing, what could you do
with ripstamer? I think this could be a good product name.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It actually could something remarkable.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, it means something remarkable. It's got kind of a
cool sounding name.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
M h.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think even the look when I look at the
letters and how they go together. I think there's some
some potential there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I think about the remarkable notepad you know that's
out there, that product. Oh yeah, So I have a word.
It's a little easier on the ears.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Okay, what about the tongue.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And the tongue it's easier to say, And this would
be limerence limerens. Yeah, l I M E r e
ncee very easy.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Any relation to limericks, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This is the state of being infatuated or obsessed with
another person, characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation, not
always or not necessarily romantically. And really the only reason
why I chose it was I like the sound of
the word. You know, limerence feels like that.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, no, that's a good one. I do like that,
you know. That's part of the reason. As it was
going through words and some of the ones even I
didn't choose, but I came close to. It was really
just because I liked the rhythm that they had or
how they sounded, and I'm like, why don't we use
these more? They have a great sound to them. They
just roll off very nicely.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's important, you know, especially if you're gonna use it
again if you want to pull this out from the archives,
the depths, the vaults of word obscurity, and you say,
I'm going to use this word. That's important that it
has a nice flow.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, I agree. So my next word another adjective. I
wanted to get in something newer, you know, one of
these like new fangled slangy kind of terms that's made
its way into the vernacular. So this word is kind
of surprising in the sense that it's not surprising. It's
exactly what it sounds like, which is odd when you
hear the word and the word is.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Chefy c h e f f y okay, chefy, cheffy
feels good.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
What's it mean?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Means relating to or characteristic of a chef chefy. So
example would be there are no trendy ingredients or chefy tricks.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, Like you use it that way in a sentence.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You could just say, like, it's a very simple recipe,
there's nothing chefy about it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
So you know, if you had if you if you
wanted to use it marketing, this one's pretty easy, I think.
In this would also, you know, translate to the younger generation.
I tend to lean towards like the example I just
gave you, using it almost in the more negative term,
like you don't need to be chefy to eat great food,
or you don't need to be chefy to make a
healthy dish. But you could also in the more positive sense,
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be like make a chefy meal in an instant. Yeah,
you know, something like that. But it's got a very snappy,
simple ring to it. And again it sounds almost more
exotic than it is, which is just a very simple word.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, you could say something like Betty is so chefy.
I mean everything Betty does is chefy, super cheffy. That
Betty I like, super chefy. If we could say super
at the beginning of sheffy, Oh yeah, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That could even be a brand super chefy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Super chefy by Hello Fresh.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's I like that a lot. I like that you
pulled something that is Is that an official word or
is it in the addiction?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I believe it is. I think I think, so okay,
we'll say it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm putting it in. It's it. No, it's it. I'm
putting it in what do you got next?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
My next word?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Really, the main reason why I chose is just it
conjured a feeling for me. And this is a word
that's very specific to an instant or an instance.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Petricore. Have you ever heard of this term? Petricore?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
No, I haven't. Petricore p e t.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Ri c h o r petricre. It is the scent
produced when rain falls on dry soil, so that pleasant
smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long
period of warm, dry weather, and in a sentence, other
than the petricre emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there
was not a trace of evidence that it had rained
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at all. I could smell it. As I was reading
the definition, I said to myself, I have to use
this word. Didn't know that that was a thing. I
didn't know there was a word that described that sensation.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I love that that's a word. I almost think it
should have a more beautiful word apociate.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It, you know, Yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Petrikor's not bad and it gives you something, but yeah,
I almost think it should be something more like limerens. Yeah,
you know, something that's more a little more lyrical, and
you're like or poetic.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I agree, I wholeheartedly agree with that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Because when I heard the definition, though, I was like,
I love I love that definition. I love that there's
a word for that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I thought you might hopefully our listeners agree with us, Petrokore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So my next one is where I'm going very Nietzsche
along the lines of defenestration. You know something that's usage
is a very very tiny window. That word is you kaligan.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You spell that U you c A L E g
O N.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Now, this word's got some it's got some Greek origins
in ancient Greece. Youkalagan was one of the elders of
Troy whose house was set afire by the kayans Akayans.
His house was set of fire anyway, when the city
was sacked. Okay, so the meaning of ukalagan now is
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a neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So yeah, we've got a word for that. Give you
an example. As the wildfire raged on, the residents of
the town watched in despair, knowing that their ukalaigan's fate
was uncertain. So again, very limited. You're not gonna be
able to use this one every day. Unless you know
your neighbor's house is on fire or burns down every day.
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But possible usage in marketing. Think about this. You get
a commercial or maybe an ad. Are you tired of
uklagans bringing you down? We cut to neighbors screaming my
house is burning, my house is burning, And the next
thing you see is get noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right, yeah, I see where you're going there. What I
find the most fascinating about that is that it is
a very limited window of.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Time, like micro and I found.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Words like that that I thought, that's so interesting. It's
a little bit like defenestration because definestration is very specific.
But then you have those words that are very specific
and also specific to a moment in time. How is
that even possible? How do we have a word like that?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, I'd probably put that even in the category of
do we need that word?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There is something maybe you were like you're running to
get to get help, and then you're out of breath
and you want to tell them I have this neighbor
whose house is on fire. But that's a lot of
words to get out. Instead, you could be like you
cala gun, Like oh, my god, your neighbor's house is on.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Fire, and that's probably what happened. Then they were running
and they're like pointing at his house and they're like
you and then it was like house on fire equals
eucaligon as they're pointing, you know, something very similar to that.
And this isn't one of my words I chose, but
I found this what I was researching, and it's kind
of like that is very specific to a time period,
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is antebellum. It relates to things right before the American
Civil War, which I think is crazy because the word
could technically be used for a time before any war,
but it's not. It's generally used to relate to things
before the American Civil War. And Antebellum, as I mean,
I've heard that word before, mainly, to be honest, is
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like Lady Antebellum, which is the musical group, or there's
like Antebellum, the horror movie that came out in twenty twenty.
Beyond that, you never really hear it. But I think
it's interesting that it's specific to the time period and
there were a multitude of those, like Antidiluvian was relating
to things before the Biblical flood anyway threw into honorable mentions.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Apparently there I know under that sneaking him in there.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But my last word that I chose was bor borboigamis, borboregamus.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Bor bo r y g m us but borgamis. And
this for no other reason than I thought. I didn't
know that there was a word associated with the rumbling
or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and
gas in the intestines. Another definition says the gurgling, rumbling,
(22:32):
or squeaking noise from the abdomen that is caused by
the movement of gas through the bowels. I love that
they chose squeaking as part of that definition. And it's
a medical definition obviously, because it's talking about the gurgling
in your stomach. Never knew that it was borborgamus, borboorgimis.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I didn't know an neither. That's it. That's a good one.
A little bit of automatopm there where the word kind
of sounds like the sound you're hearing in your stomach,
you know, you could say, which I like, there's kind
of like a repetitive shaking going on with that word.
It seems like it fits, you know, where I was
saying the last word that doesn't quite go with that.
This one, I feel like it goes with what we're
(23:12):
talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I think to myself, how often I'm gonna use that now,
Like my stomach's growling in a meeting and I'm gonna
be like, oh, sorry about my boborega mess, Oh my
bborg mess.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's I think you just say the word and people
would be like, oh, okay, that would be a good
like Tom's commercial too.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Is your barboregamas causing problems in your meetings? Chews thumbs
not available in stores?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So for my last one had to finish out with
a verb. I haven't thrown any verbs out yet, so
this one short. It's got a weird sound to it,
a weird ring to it. But this is a great
example of how the origin of words can be really bizarre.
This word is grok, and this means to understand something,
So there was a lot to grock. The code is
(23:58):
simple enough you should be able to grock what it does.
So here's where it gets interesting. The word groc comes
from the nineteen sixty one science fiction novel stranger in
a strange Land. In the book, the main character is
a Martian raised human who uses the word to convey
a deep understanding of something. So that's where we get
(24:21):
this word. That's where it originates. And now what is
fictional has become real in the sense that it's you know,
stumbled into our dictionary and now we have groc.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, it's a weird word. I mean, the word kind
of has that emotional feel to it. It sounds like
it is would you say.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't know if it sounds emotional like I think of,
like even a baby could grock it. I think of
Maybe I think of groot too much. I don't know
what to think. I get a Lord of the Rings
sense to it, but I also know that you know,
connection of it.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I was thinking to myself, I know this word, and
I think I know this word because I'm pretty sure
you've used this word before. If it hasn't been in
a podcast episode, it might be awe air.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I have not used this word before. I guarantee you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm not. I'm not throwing around grocks.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I do feel like I have heard this word before, though,
but I don't know if I always knew the definition.
That's interesting about the alien. I feel like the alien's
name should have been Grock.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
His name is Valentine Michael Smith.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
No he's not. That's the alien's name. Yeah, no it's not.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It's not an alien. It's a Martian raised human.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, still, so.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I know you don't like honorable mentions, but I'll throw
you out a few things I thought about that I didn't.
I didn't end up going with at a trio of
adjectives that I liked. I just liked the sound of okay, loquacious, okay, eponymous, obsequious,
all similar ending, but I like the flow of those.
I got a couple. I got a noun and a
(26:01):
verb that both end in lee that I thought about,
twaddle and bimble. Twaddle is trivial or foolish speech you're writing,
aka nonsense. Bimble is to walk at a leisurely pace.
And then, last, but not least, there were two types
of people. I thought about a fillocalyst, a lover of beauty.
(26:23):
And you know this recent word that I think is
getting enough enough play. But I thought about this one
for a second, which is edge lord. This is a
person who takes an extreme persona online comes from like Edgy,
always kind of going with the hottest take the edge. Lord,
I think we're hearing this one a decent bit. But
I like this word. Fifty years from now, I think
(26:44):
this is gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, those are some good, honorable mentions. Well hopefully, I
think these are all really good words.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You've expanded your vocabulary probably ten to twentyfold just in this,
you know, half hour of listening to this episode.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, well that's it for today's episode. We're about to abscratulate,
which is to leave abruptly or flee. But you can
find current and past episodes of the podcast on Speakinghuman
dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We'll be back in two weeks with another episode of
Speaking Human. Catch you then Anthropoids
Speaker 1 (27:20):
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