[FRIAM] More distraction

[Merle Lefkoff]

Excellent, Gary.  I will definitely pass this one on.

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:47 PM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> Ah, the illustrious portmanteau. We English speakers seem to really love
> making up new words. I wonder if this is mostly an English phenomenon? I've
> tried with Spanish a lot of times here in Ecuador, with little success. The
> only one I can think of that I've repeatedly tried to get to catch on is
> "desaymuerzo" for "brunch" (desayuno = breakfast, almuerzo = lunch).
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:16 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Has the list noticed the new perfect word for frustrated climatologists
>> and epidemiologists:  Cassandrafreude.  This is like labradoodle, another
>> "portmanteau" word.  One definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of
>> things going wrong in exactly the way you predicted but no one believed you
>> when it could have made a difference."  Any other suggested definitions?
>> You go, Nick!
>>
>>
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
merlelefkoff at gmail.com <merlelefoff at gmail.com>
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