Voted For: Thautata

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēvapidərāshən

Sentence: Joan has given up any thoughts of thinking. She has resigned the real world, where you have to remember stuff, to join the e-world, where your IQ can be measured in gigabytes. Her **smart phone** is brighter than she is. If she has a thought, she better get it down in her notes app or it will succumb to evapidoration. A friend asks if she wants to meet at a particular restaurant. Before you can blink, she is reading the menu and texting a reservation. Just don*t ask her to share her thoughts. She doesn*t have time for those anymore.

Etymology: evaporation (cease to exist) + vapid (offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging - made of vapors)

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya

Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind

Etymology: attention + amnesia

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Forg-thot

Sentence: Because of her constant blather about crustaceans and underpants, I complete forgthought of my metaphysical essay topic Nature of Time ... hey I remember now!

Etymology: Forgot (failed to remember) + forgo (do without, ie. the thought) + thought (idea produced by thinking)

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COMMENTS:

like it!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:43:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: blink/ling

Sentence: Several times a day I get an earth shattering blinkling but then in an instant, it's gone

Etymology: inkling + blink

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COMMENTS:

Hey Jabber... Congrats on your win last week! Well deserved! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-21: 18:02:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ir ret treev ab ilitee

Sentence: It happened again. Brianna had another irritrievability session. Her train of thought had become derailed again. It was like being an amnesiac in a soap opera. She could not remember anything from a second ago, nevermind longer. It all started when she began dating her co-star, Drew A. Blanc. He seemed to have no memory at all. Probably a good thing in Hollywood, but a bad thing for her...had they had their first kiss, gotten married, had a child? Who knew??? All that Brianna did know was that she would have to get back on the Ginko-Biloba again soon, or her career might be over! Whoulda thought????

Etymology: Irretrievable (impossible to recover or recoup or overcome) & Irritate (annoy;disturb, especially by minor irritations) & Ability (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done).

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dam nee sha

Sentence: You know the feeling...you go into a room, but forget why you went. You see someone familiar but cannot recall their name. You put your keys down, but cannot find them as you race around getting ready to go to work. Yes, it's that damnesia. You used to have a photographic memory...but now you keep forgetting to buy film for it. Your memory is now like a pen that runs out of ink. You have crossed into a new dementia, The Whywrite Zone.

Etymology: Damn (expletives used informally as intensifiers) & Amnesia (total or partial loss of memory)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: think - ho - el

Sentence: In trying to remember what she meant to tell her husband, Marnie encountered a thinkhole. She could not retrieve the thoughts that had been preoccupying her for the last day and a half. She felt like her mind was wandering the desert.

Etymology: think, sink, sinkhole

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COMMENTS:

I must thay, that's a thuper word! - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 08:07:00

Love it! You got my vote! - artr, 2009-12-06: 06:53:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pond + err + or

Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.

Etymology: ponder + error

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: tad/ull/d

Sentence: I had rubber gloves on and three foot of garden hose in my hand but for the life of me I was so taddled I couldn't think what I had intended to do with it.

Etymology: tad ( a small amount) + addled (confused)

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COMMENTS:

that reminds me - I have to do some gardening today and if I get taddled, I can just wash the car - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:37:00

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Created by: Scattercat

Pronunciation: de-NEH-mon. Similar to denouement, with which it shares some aspects of connotation as well.

Sentence: He opened his mouth to begin the presentation, and his mind went blank; if he hadn't had his notecards ready, it would have been a total demnemonstration.

Etymology: The word has roots in 'demon', such as might be responsible for the phenomenon, and 'mnemonic', which in this experience is conspicuous in its absence. The prefix 'de-' and the root 'mnem' also combined to play a certain role here.

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