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perfect articulation

The most complete, concise, effective, and efficient way to express a feeling, thought, idea, desire, or anything else.

Sooner than I expected, the day came when after writing daily and weeks away from completing my master's degree in creative writing, I achieved perfect articulation—the ability to perfectly word what I was feeling and/or thinking.

by but for October 2, 2018

uglyist

A human being who is biased against those he or she considers ugly.

"Three people I saw in the city I just relocated to, look ugly", is an uglyist statement.

by but for September 24, 2018

Glorifry

Glorifying something which in reality harms the members of society.

To society's detriment war is glorified by Hollywood and the media, but its glorification and "gorycealment" (concealing the bloody consequences of violence, as in Hollywood violence) also helps ensure that sufficient young taxpayers will enlist in the armed forces to protect the nation from or allow Americans to react adequately to, for example, the asinine invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, or other types of attacks individuals tend to find adjectives for. "Was it rational to attack the Japanese for invading Pearl Harbor," the professor asked. A student replied that if the U.S. hadn't attacked Japan, that empire would have grown stronger and as far away as the U.S. is from Japan, like the United Kingdom took back the Malvina Islands, Japan could have successfully invaded and conquered the U.S. So to imposibilize that, President Roosevelt did the correct thing by retaliating and inserting the U.S. into WWII. Some individuals suspect that glorifying war is an act of glorifrycation. So much for glorifry.

by but for October 25, 2017

speaking to discover

A method to make oneself aware of certain things one was not aware of until one began speaking to oneself or others (and preferably recorded what one said) about something (to be able to analyze it).

Speaking extemporaneously to myself and audio-recording it has helped me realize certain things I was not aware of until I said them. That process is called "speaking to discover".

by but for June 7, 2018

Stupids

The concise, dynamic, and practical way to say "stupid people".

No one says, intellectual people, everyone says, "intellectuals". Call stupid people "stupids", and call ignorant people "ignorants". Ignorance is environmental, stupidity appears to be genetic. Though it is not easy and it may not be possible to determine if an action was ignorant or stupid, ignorance engenders stupid actions by individuals who are not stupid.

by but for September 30, 2018

profit extraction

Fraudulently obtaining a profit from a consumer by deceiving, manipulating, tricking him or her.

Profit extraction reminds me of a tooth extraction, pulling the tooth out from the gum. It also reminds me of the term "rip off." Ultimately, profit extraction is the act of pulling something which belongs to a person, from them, and taking it away.

by but for May 15, 2018

f.e.

The modern way to abreviate "for example". The established abreviation is "i.e.", "id est" from Latin.

Spot Tricks saw the advantages of updating the abbreviation i.e. ( "id est" from Latin ) which means "for example", to "f.e.".

by but for November 28, 2018