Word of the Day: Agrajag Complex
Sometimes, a neologism comes along that doesn't make me want to throw up. For every webinar or proactive we get an agrajag complex, which seems like a word we've been waiting for. From the Urban Dictionary:
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This seems like a necessary word to describe the psychosis that exists throughout the land mass within the eastern border of the Mediterranean to the western edge of the Indian subcontinent. And a lot of other places besides.
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Oct '10
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Douglas Adams' hilarious (albeit uber-cynical) four-part trilogy (yes four!) includes, in order-'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Life, the Universe and Everything', and 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish'.
The British BBC tv version has poor special effects, but is much funnier and truer to the text than the poor Holywood movie version
May '10
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The fifth part of the increasingly inappropriately named HHGG trilogy was "Mostly Harmless" (full text of the HHGG entry for the planet Earth). You can buy the omnibus as the Trilogy of Five on Kindle.
Jul '12
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I would love to see the statue that Agrajag had in his temple of hate dedicated to Arthur Dent. It would be a visual representation of the Agrajag Complex.
Aug '12
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May I suggest that you use it as a verb?
eg Better to have agrajagged and lost than never to have agrajagged at all.
Feb '11
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This sounds like it is based on a word that we Pittsburghers use to mean "jerk." (I don't know if it is CoC compliant. Pgh broadcast media stays away from it.)
It certainly works for me.
Mar '11
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Reminds me of this great Ben Folds lyric:
In a haze these days
I pull up to the stoplight
I can feel that something's not right
I can feel that someone's blasting me
With hate and bass
Sending dirty vibes my way
Cause my great great great great grandad
Made someone's great great great great grandaddy slaves
It wasn't my idea
It wasn't my idea
It never was my idea
I just drove to the store
For some preparation h
Dec '10
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Jan '12
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I had to stop at word neologism. Hadn't seen it. Love it. My to-do list includes a post summarizing and prioritizing a few dozen of these pernicious creations. The "arc" in my "narrative" will go from mild irritation to insane Agrajagitis.
Dec '10
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George Santayana said those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Referring to the blood feuds that dominate Albania, P.J. O'Rourke said it goes double for those who can't remember anything else.
Jan '11
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Tricky
May '11
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Neologism is a very good word even though it is hard to it include in casual conversation. Webinar and proactive are gag-inducing. Agrajag is so far over the top in dialectic terms that even with the definitions I don't know what it means. I look forward to when richoteers is in the Urban Dictionary as a term for thoughtful culturally engaged Internet commenters.
Sep '10
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Uh oh. That's me. I can only remember the past.
Aug '10
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Has anyone seen my towel ?
Oct '10
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Foxman: 42
Nah, doesn't fit the question (i.e. What do you get when you multiply six by nine?)
Jun '10
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So we now have an actual word that encapsulates the foundational principle of the NAACP.