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Covert Intent Word

One or more words which state something other than—or the opposite of—what the words which do not have a covert ulterior motive in the message express.
One example of a Covert Intent Word is, “The Test Administrators will do their best to make your testing experience as smooth and stress free as possible.” The word “stress” reminds the test takers that there is such a thing as "stress." And makes anyone who is exposed to that word feel some level of stress—if only by remembering what stress is to grasp what the writer is saying.
by but for October 18, 2017
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100% attraction

The way a person feels when they see and/or hear and/or touch someone who they realize they feel 100% attracted to.
Though I even felt sexually attracted to a woman I met at work last Friday, it was not a 100% attraction. That type makes one feel as if a magnet is pulling you.
by but for June 2, 2018
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Tonality Science

The scientific study of the tones individuals use to express a word.
Carlos was listening to Grand Funk Railroad play "The Loco-Motion" and was amazed by the singer's adroit use of tonality to each time he expressed a word or a few of them in succession convey a message or messages which were quite a little different, complimented, or reinforced the words he sang. He realized tonality was but has not been raised to the level of a science, and coined the term Tonality Science to go in that direction.
by but for October 25, 2017
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Lifestyle Acuity

The degree to which individuals are able to live their life the way they choose to. To work at what they love to do, to be in a relationship with or married to the man or woman they want to be married to, to live where and how they want to live, etc.
After relocating to another state in the nation, working hard to achieve a higher mental and physical state and doing so, Charlie has been able to raise his Lifestyle Acuity far more and faster than he imagined. The only thing he has not found is an acceptable female companion, but he is optimistic and patient.
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Factual Comedy

Comedy about real-life phenomenon (not imagined things).
Chuck writes Factual Comedy but presents it in a fictitious but fact-based novel.
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possibleize

A man who calls himself U.R. Perfect is working to possibleize error-repetition impossibilitation.
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European-Americans

The counterpart to the term African-Americans. Members of the Anglo-Saxon race who were either born in or live in the United States of America.
Do any Black Americans realize that referring to them as "African-Americans" insinuates that even if they were born in the United States of America they continue to be foreigners? What would happen if mainstream media started referring to White Americans as "European-Americans," as in, "Though in the United States of America the quantity of Latinos (16.3%) now surpasses the number of African-Americans (12.6%), European-Americans comprise 72.4% and Asians comprise 4.8% of the population (2010 Census). Notice that Latinos and Asians have not been inflicted with or infected by a hyphen.
by but for October 21, 2017
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