doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 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-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down15
arrow-up172arrow-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-22 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 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-up17·2 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-up6·2 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-up3·1 day agoYeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
minus-squaredoomslang@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 hours agoI’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
minus-squareContriteErudite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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-up1·1 day agoMaybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
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’ve never paid attention to SCP stuff, but it seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
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’!”