Englebert Hedgehog's definitions

homework hemiola

When one does at least one and a half times as much homework as he or she expects.

Lazy Student 1: Wow, you finished your English paper!
Lazy Student 2: Yeah, I had a homework hemiola on Tuesday.

by Englebert Hedgehog January 3, 2014

bergiosis

The tendency to process and express ideas in an over-systematic fashion (i.e. Alban Berg).

The mathematician's bergiosis was evident ever since he began to order coffee in semantics matrices.

by Englebert Hedgehog June 18, 2013