doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-220 hours agoIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down15
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareIn the same way that the glass harmonica was purported to inflict melancholia there definitely are songs that can be so depressing to the right person that they are a cognitohazard.doomslang@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-220 hours agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours agoThe SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoYeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
minus-squareContriteErudite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours agoI am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
minus-squareSmeagol666@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoMaybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”
The SCP Wiki uses that word a lot. I’m not sure if they invented it but they definitely helped spread it.
Yeah I looked it up, that’s why I called it a neologism. And it’s clunky as hell.
I am now accepting applications for a less clunky variant of this neologism. It needs to maintain the self-important weight of jargon developed in a government lab, but feels graceful and luxurious when spoken aloud.
Maybe “cognizard”, but that sounds like a Pokemon. “Cognizard, I choose you! Use ‘existential dread’!”