Verboticism: Murphancholy
DEFINITION: n. The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair. v. To suddenly remember that you've been screwed by the powers that be.
Murphancholy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈmɚfənˌkɑli/
Sentence: Murphancholy is as likely to be triggered by the Peter Principle, Hofstadter's Law, Godwin's Law, or other force of irony than by Murphy's Law itself.
Etymology: From Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) + melancholy
Points: 491
Comments: Murphancholy
wordmeister - 2007-03-08: 01:06:00
Nice.
purpleartichokes - 2007-03-08: 04:49:00
A very good combo!
Osomatic - 2007-03-08: 05:40:00
Gotta give you credit (and a vote) for the fancypants linguistic markings in the pronunciation.
ErWenn - 2007-03-08: 17:35:00
Woo! I knew all that time fiddling with the IPA charts would pay off.