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#186971 - 09/25/09 11:17 AM also can't locate the word for ...
cyberbrook stranger Registered: 09/25/09 Posts: 2 Loc: CA	the phenomenon whereby you repeatedly seem to see or hear a word that you recently learned, thinking that you had never seen or heard the word before. I thought I once heard a word for this, but I don't remember and now am not sure if it exists or not. If a word for it doesn't exist, I'll gladly accept neologisms. Any ideas?
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#186972 - 09/25/09 12:50 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: cyberbrook]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	I have seen diegogarcity used (link). Its coining seems to run along the lines of synchronicity (link). _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#186973 - 09/25/09 01:31 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: zmjezhd]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	diegogarcity is a word that's come up here several times before; if you have further interest, you could do a local search for it - it shows up in ~ eight different threads. it is also firmly entrenched at onelook
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#186974 - 09/25/09 02:04 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: tsuwm]
cyberbrook stranger Registered: 09/25/09 Posts: 2 Loc: CA	Excellent, thanks!
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#186977 - 09/25/09 08:40 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: tsuwm]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	[fr. Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean atoll; after serendipity What do you mean, after serendipity, please? I know about Serendib, but.
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#186981 - 09/25/09 09:22 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: Jackie]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Used at wordorigins.org? Coined at wordorigins.org. I was there. I'm an eye-witness.
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#186983 - 09/26/09 01:41 AM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	Originally Posted By: Jackie [fr. Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean atoll; after serendipity What do you mean, after serendipity, please? I know about Serendib, but. coined after the model of, or modeled after..
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#186984 - 09/26/09 06:58 AM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: Jackie]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	What do you mean, after serendipity Serendip is a place name, putting this -ity ending on it transformed it into an abstract noun meaning something like 'agreeable chance occurence'. So, they took another placename and converted it with the same suffix. Kinda like the -gate suffix came to mean 'scandal'. (The -gate in the original Watergate means 'gate'. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#186987 - 09/28/09 06:22 AM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: zmjezhd]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	diegogarcity [fr. Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean atoll; after serendipity] "a term used [at Wordorigins.org] to denote the appearance of another term in multiple sources shortly after you have looked it up in the dictionary" (or first noticed it) I can understand the 'logic' of serendipity from Serendip, but the connection between the Indian Ocean atoll and diegogarcity escapes me. The phenomenen itself, I think is not limited to word or terms only, but to objects and types of people and fruits and flowers in the wild as well. It is a phenomenon of perceptiveness.
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#186992 - 09/28/09 12:45 PM Re: also can't locate the word for ... [Re: BranShea]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	it certainly worked for me: shortly after discovering this term, I was reading Simon Winchester's Outposts, of which see this.
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