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A takeoff on idiolect (1948), which means, "the language or speech pattern of an idiot at a particular period of life", specifically, "the language or speech pattern of one individual idiot at a particular period of life".
Though his idiotlect as a teenager was more pronounced, at 36, it is still clearly discernible. Idiolect could be called "idiolex" to emphasize "lexicon" (a person's vocabulary).
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Get the idiotlect mug.Two or more stupid individuals that are alive, but “stupids” could include the stupid individuals who have passed away.
The quantity of people who often do stupid things, compared to the quantity of people who do not do stupid things, or do them rarely, is growing.
Though probably everyone wishes there were very few or preferably no stupid people, confronted by their presence (which in some ways often emanates their stupidity), and sometimes injured mentally or physically by their stupid actions, we all need to give that group of people a name to help everyone deal with the growing number of what I compassionately call “stupids.”
I wrote, “compassionately,” because God gives each person the amount of intelligence they have.
Though probably everyone wishes there were very few or preferably no stupid people, confronted by their presence (which in some ways often emanates their stupidity), and sometimes injured mentally or physically by their stupid actions, we all need to give that group of people a name to help everyone deal with the growing number of what I compassionately call “stupids.”
I wrote, “compassionately,” because God gives each person the amount of intelligence they have.
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Get the stupids mug.Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.
After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.
Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, working with words made me feel increasingly better.
Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, working with words made me feel increasingly better.
Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
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Society's leaders figured out that they can mold society and its members by creating strategically created words or phrases, or using established words in new ways and inserting them into society via the media in order to get people to use them and mold the immediate future in the ways which will be most beneficial to society's owners.
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Get the strategically created words mug.The wise, health-and-happiness-increasing philosophy encapsulated into one-word based on the belief that "bad things happen for a good reason," and advises everyone to laugh about things which happen, or about any other thing, instead of worrying and crying about them.
Seeing that society is at times drowning in the network of lies which systematically distort reality and transform many consumers into overconsuming but extremely happy overindulging zambies, Feelex Smart decided to follow aphorism writer Pro Fact's advise and laugh about it, instead of Ken Greenball's advice to react to things by saying, "Fuck it!" Pro Fact considerd condensing the term Laugh About It into one word—laughaboutit, but decided to make that transition in the future.
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Get the Laughaboutit mug.Concisionism advocates articulating one's feelings, and thinking, analyzing, speaking, and/or writing concisely. Its adherents believe concision is so powerful that by applying it—especially at work—a nation's Gross Domestic Product will rise because workers and other professionals will communicate faster and more effectively, thereby boosting production. Another benefit of articulating things concisely is that trimming the fat from communication leaves people more time to live and that improves the quality of life and increases the amount of pleasure people can enjoy.
The members of think tanks wonder if communicating concisely would make consumers realize that they can live concisely and consume concisely, not needing to purchase unnecessary (really unneeded) products or services; be husky, plump, or obese; and stop over-consuming and also consume less.
The members of think tanks wonder if communicating concisely would make consumers realize that they can live concisely and consume concisely, not needing to purchase unnecessary (really unneeded) products or services; be husky, plump, or obese; and stop over-consuming and also consume less.
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Get the Concisionism mug.Some people use a deceptive tonality to reinforce a lie they are telling. For example, they will answer, “No,” but in a tonality that says it would be unthinkable for that person to have said or done what they are saying they did not say or do, and they may even intimidate the listener so he will feel stupid if he ever doubted or dared to question their statement.
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