October 11, 2011

dear clusterflock

Words that sound like they have meaning but don’t.

comments

  1. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    I’ll start us off with two: ‘inherent’ (as in, e.g., ‘inherently evil’) and ‘innovation.’

  2. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    That’s a good one. It makes me think go sub-questions, or questions that relate indirectly: words that don’t sound like what they mean (limpid). And words that are only ever used in relation to another word (kind of like your example).

  3. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Special

  4. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Value ad.

  5. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Heuristics.

  6. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Nice. Okay. Yeah.

  7. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Objective/relative truth

  8. Cory on October 11th, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Interesting

  9. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Fun.

  10. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    Intuitive

  11. Deron Bauman on October 11th, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    Substantial.

  12. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    I use substantial all the time, but you’re right.

  13. Joshua on October 11th, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    Chorley.

  14. Andrew Simone on October 11th, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    happiness?

  15. Dave Vogt on October 11th, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    leverage (as a verb)

  16. Dave Vogt on October 11th, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    Go

  17. Ash on October 11th, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    “…moving forward…”, “Absolutely!”, “Federal Reserve”, “…neither here nor there…”, “doable”

  18. Michael Grant Smith on October 11th, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    ecstasy

    earmark

    contingency

    marketing

    how’s it goin’?

    reinvent

    overkill

    love affair

  19. Rick Neece on October 11th, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    Context

  20. Dave Vogt on October 11th, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    quality, virtue, meaning, consciousness, life, good, morality, existence

    in no particular order.

  21. Aaron Winslow on October 12th, 2011 at 9:08 am

    actualize

    ka-blammo

  22. Joel Bernstein on October 12th, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    Cromulent

  23. Amanda Mae on October 12th, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    “Andrew Simone.”

    Siri, text Andrew Simone and tell him he doesn’t exist.

    Siri says she’d be glad to.

  24. Deron Bauman on October 12th, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    Did you, like, get your phone?

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