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SF is rich with opportunities to create new phrases and words that sound really cool.
I use the word-
Technoloog - imagined future tech that is nothing more than a single word/ phrase that sounds cool... eg 'flux capacitor' from Back to the Future or something like 'psi-chaon particle reverberator turbines'... stuff like that...
'loog' is corruption of logos.
It'd be really nice if we posted such imaginary words/phrases with a short explanation. Not to spoil someone's fun ( I hate to do that) but we use technoloog as a common word. link
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"stereobatic semiosis"... lolz, very rich!
try an antonym for that... ie when a word exists before the concept does...
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Re BranShea
Looks German... what does it mean?
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when a word exists before the concept does
Nephelococcygial semiosis, or cloud-cuckoo-landish symbologenesis.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Okay... I'll change mine to Pseuteclog  Pseudo-Technological-Words
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There was always Asimov's psychohistory. A more recent addition would be cliology from Michael Flynn's works In the Country of the Blind[i] and [i]Eifelheim. Googling it makes an study and I'm not sure if Flynn coined it or if he co-opted an existing word (and discipline). To me psychohistory was more of an engineering discipline and cliology observational.
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what do you make of the scifi channel changing their logo to SYFY? Surprisingly, I like it; it's a much better phonological replication than sci-fi...which I would never have equated with skiffy.
Come to think of it, why wasn't sci-fi pronounced as sigh-fee or sigh-fih? Just the rhyme?
Welcome aBoard, Fieldgunner. I'm guessing you're a U.S.'n?
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>Come to think of it, why wasn't sci-fi pronounced as sigh-fee or sigh-fih?
well, I (for one) always pronounced it as sigh-figh; and I think that SyFy just obviousizes it for those who haven't been uplifted.
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Welcome aBoard, Fieldgunner. I'm guessing you're a U.S.'n?
thanks jackie... your guess is a bit off though.i'm from india.
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