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  • Sitting bolt upright in bed at 2:00AM with a word that simply MUST be listed on Wordie.

    October 11, 2007

  • Thank God I'm past that stage.

    For now.

    October 11, 2007

  • Shit. I'm not.

    October 11, 2007

  • Neither am I. In fact, it was the phrase "word apnea" that woke me up.

    October 11, 2007

  • Oh, it'll be back, my friends. It'll be back. And probably in a much more powerful strain, like...say, wordsomnia.

    October 11, 2007

  • I thought this was the word for when you're trying to remember a word, and it's on the tip of your tongue, and this whole while you've forgotten to breathe, so you feel like you're suffocating from lack of word. (I get that a LOT)

    February 25, 2008

  • Cf. presque vu.

    February 25, 2008

  • Cricket: suffocating from lack of word? Haha!

    Hey, word apnea can have more than one meaning, right?

    February 25, 2008

  • *snort!*

    May 2, 2008