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Legally Happy

When an individual feels happy by doing something legal.

Knowing that playing music after 11:00 P.M. would be make him illegally happy, the teenage boy raised the volume of the music he was listening to and was legally happy knowing that from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. the police, enforcing the laws, allowed anyone to play music below 8 decibels.

by but for October 20, 2017

corelate

The essence of the verb "correlate".

Was it necessary to add the second "r" to the word "corelate" to make it "correlate"?

Does anyone or anything benefit from that addition?
I am certain the second "r" confuses and is unnecessary.

by but for May 28, 2018

Musical Articulation

The process of composing a melody to express a specific thought or emotion.

Sometimes, the composer has verbally articulated or also written the thought he or she articulates musically by composing a melody. Sometimes, the composer just feels an emotion which he or she is or is unable to articulate verbally, but feels the need to express by composing a riff and does so. "I call that 'musical articulation.'

by but for December 19, 2017

Love Deactivates Reason

The axiom which states that though need and usually a set of reasons activate and fuel love, to satisfy one or both lover's needs, love—that unexplainably still unexplained phenomenon which in this era of perfection still makes the world go round—quickly deactivates reason.

The social scientist realized that love deactivates reason and submitted that new term to help everyone comprehend and track the seemingly mysterious but in reality, quasi-predictable steps love tends to take.

by but for October 25, 2017

Song Time Travel

A method which takes the listener of a song back to when it was a hit.

Reality designer, Oulda Veyin, realized that listening to songs from her teenage years instantly took her brain and body back to those days and that the song time travel's effect lasted for days.

by but for October 25, 2017

reproductive act

Sex is the reproductive act.

Calling the reproductive act "sex" leads young people to engage in sexual intercourse mostly oblivious to the main possible consequence—creating a new life.

by but for December 3, 2017

self-created difficulty

Unknowingly or unconsciously making an action harder for one to perform.

Charlie noticed that without realizing they are doing it, people sometimes make things harder for themselves, and/or occasionally for others to do. He named that action a "self-created difficulty."

by but for February 17, 2021