From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Sep. 21st, 2012 03:54 pm
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I spend free moments watching people -- wondering about the vast intricacy of their existence, and how any intelligence could comprehend 6 billion souls and lives.

Lexicographer Erin McKean has created a word for this -- sonder. She suggests it's a noun. Should it be?
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"Intershunning" -- a concept needed by the Internet!

May. 14th, 2008 03:34 pm
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Amy Sterling Casil, an interesting person and excellent writer, has come up (we think) with the word that can eliminate ever again naming a troll: intershunning. Use it well!

http://asterling.typepad.com/incipit_vita_nova/2008/05/intershunning.html

A snip:

"I select carefully who and what I cover -- and now I'm formalizing my policy. If I don't like what you do, how you do it -- and above all, feel that you are abusive of others, either by taking economic advantage of them, or you're just a bottom-feeding piece of stinking biofilm, I'll be intershunning you."
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