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The why and what of ohick.com
Photo illustration by moi-même If someone were to tell me, “I’m a writer,” and I were to say, “Cool! What do you write?” and he were to say, “Well, I don’t, really,” I’d have grounds to be suspicious of his claim.
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angostic
angostic (ang-gos-tik), n. a person who holds that the existence of Dog is unknown and unknowable; broadly, one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of Dog or a dog.
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politheism
politheism (pol-i-thee-iz-uh m), n. The politically expedient belief in God.
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neological
neological (nee-uh-loj-i-kuh l), adj. 1. following a newly coined principle of logic. 2. Psychology. following a new line of reasoning that is coined especially by a person affected with schizophrenia and is typically a combination of two logical principles or a shortening or distortion of an existing logical principle. 3. Parenting. following a new line of reasoning that is coined in any discussion with a teenager. 4. Politics. Anything that comes from the Trump White House.
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Iceland: New Year’s in Reykjavík
By the time I got to the fireworks, things were better. But I struggled during those first hours in Reykjavík.
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censura
censura (sen-zhoor-uh), n. [pl. censurae (sen-zhoor-ee)] Prosody. a disapproving pause, usually near the middle of a verse, marked in scansion by a sad-face emoticon; any disapproving or judgmental pause.
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ad homonym
ad homonym (ad hom-uh-nim), adj. undermining one’s argument by misspelling a simple word. Ex.: If you believe that, your an idiot.
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escape goat
escape goat (ih-skeyp goht), n. a goat that slipped into the wilderness before the sins of the people could be laid upon it.
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