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zzfriend commented on the word heliceophobic
A person person frightened of airplane propellers.
From the French _helice,_ propeller.
April 2, 2009
zzfriend commented on the word imajon
An imajon, the smallest particle of thought, attracts and organizes quantum particles to begin the appearance of matter from energy.
"We are focus-points of consciousness, enormously creative. When we enter the self-constructed hologrammatic arena we call spacetime, we begin at once to generate creativity particles, imajons, in violent continuous pyrotechnic deluge." -- Richard Bach, _Running from Safety._
The passage continues, defining conceptons, excytons, gloomons and related thought-particles.
April 2, 2009
zzfriend commented on the word fortepiano
To the best of my knowledge, the fortepiano followed the harpischord and preceded the pianoforte. Thomas Jefferson purchased a fortepiano for his wife Martha in 1773, and reading the story was the first time I heard of the instrument.
April 2, 2009
zzfriend commented on the word neosignism
A neosignism is a familiar word with a new meaning. For instance, the word "dog," meaning "digital online graphic," is not an acronym (DOG) but a neosignism. A first cousin, of course, to _neologism,_ which I suspect it is, as well. Etymology from the French/Latin for _meaning._
April 2, 2009