doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agoIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down16
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·11 days agoNever heard cognitohazard before, talk about a clunky neologism. By the way, have you heard of my band, Clunky Neologism? We’re not very good.
minus-squaredoomslang@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·11 days agoOh hell yeah I love bands that aren’t very good. Love em so much ive even been in a few.
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 days agoThe SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 days agoYeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
minus-squareContriteErudite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoI am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
minus-squareSmeagol666@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoMaybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
minus-squaredoomslang@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoI’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
Never heard cognitohazard before, talk about a clunky neologism. By the way, have you heard of my band, Clunky Neologism? We’re not very good.
Oh hell yeah I love bands that aren’t very good. Love em so much ive even been in a few.
The SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
Yeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
I am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
Maybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
I’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.