Yeah, I grok Vonnegut.
Infundibulum is a real word. Google it.
I worked with cash registers, and had a real supermarket PLU file (database listing all the products, their descriptions, prices, and UPC codes) to work with. One of the fresh produce products listed was: Pomefrasnate.
I was ordering some products online a week or two ago and I stumbled across a product on a website called ‘mkjk’ - no description, and with a price of zero, so I added it to my order - I got a confirmation that my order had shipped, and mkjk was listed on it, but when it arrived, there was no mkjk.
You can’t see the mkjk, but you can feel if the mkjk is there.
You’d miss it if it were gone
A friend back in high school — in the 80s! — would occasionally talk in spontaneous nonsense words.
I still remember one:
rehebusnirt
There was a Seinfeld episode where Jerry was playing Scrabble with his mother, and Kramer kept trying to get her to play QUONE. “You know, to quone something!”
I offer up … Neo-fictitious !!
So much of what we considered in the past to be pure fiction has actually come to fruition and, in some cases, even been surpassed. The original Star Trek personal communicator is a good example.
“Neo-fictitious” is a new kind of fiction, a fiction that is so far out there that it is virtually impossible for it to become reality any time in the foreseeable future if ever.
rashomondegreen
My BIL once tried to get “cawp” in a Scrabble game. He said, “You know, you pick up the phone and cawp someone.”
Star Trek, in all its incarntations, had a lot of that too.
I noted earlier that “infundibulum” is a real word. However, I can’t find any mention of “chronosynclastic” other than references to Vonnegut. But “synclastic” is a real word. It refers to a geometric surface that curves in the same direction at every point. (Loosely speaking, a curved surface that is convex everywhere with the same side as its interior, I think.)
If you imagine a curved space-time surface with such a geometry, you could call it “chronosynclastic”. The prefix “chrono” means “time”. (Cite: Our Doper Chronos, whose avatar is an hourglass.) Vonnegut may have fabsnabated that word himself, but it makes sense.
An “infundibulum” is anything funnel shaped.
So a chronosynclastic infundibulum is a space-time funnel, in which all children’s daddies can converge in a space-time continuum where they can all be right all the time, just as Vonnegut described it.
These are some “words” that stumped my email spell-check: “No replacement found.”
apicite
bolradt
caisym
dolufe
eppive
fivoly
gremesh
hoyastic
irretonic
jolpine
kertaline
lacurric
murtory murtorable
nintrope
opplism
platridian
quebane
rauldete
sedaugh
taracore
ullidet
valapish
weyaff
xabbine
yerral
zoiret
Not as much as one might think. Several years ago, I read a small paperback entitled, “The Physics of Star Trek”. Much of the technology postulated is, in fact, actually possible. The catch is the amount of energy needed to make a lot of that stuff happen.
The transporter, however, is truly impossible if for no other reason than the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle”.
That’s why they have Heisenberg Compensators
I’ve sometimes wondered if those need regular adjustments.
How would you be able to tell?
The plot runs more smoothly.
Minger ale.
Every time I try to type “suburbia”, it comes out "suburbis". So to hell with it, that’s my word now. Derived from /sub+urbis/, the genitive singular of “urbs”. Don’t nitpick it.