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Daily Prompt Create a new word and explain its meaning and etymology.
Well I’m just enough of a geek to get all excited and anticipate that playing Lexicographer will be a lot of fun. I felt that way about Hungry Hippos once too, for about five minutes.
Here is my new word, the very first one in my Brave New Words Dictionary (that is also made up, so don’t bother looking for it on Amazon just yet):
rablentumentia - (rab-len-tum-en-chi-ah)
noun
a mental disorder or form of mild psychosis in which the patient is afflicted with very lengthy bouts of non-stop talking in a loud and obnoxious manner with complete disregard for audience and/or subject matter.
Word origins: from rablen, (middle English), to speak in a rapid confused manner; from entia, (latin), the state of, and from tumlen, (yiddish), to make a racket.
possible synonyms, also mostly made up - bureaucratosis, cacoethes loquendi, non-motivational speaker syndrome, chronic blarney verbitis
Sentence Examples:
1. The CEO’s pointless rambling at board meetings was routinely ignored until one of the members arrived without his ear buds and was consequently subjected to twenty minutes of verbose indecipherable nonsense which he later described to his co-workers as almost certainly blatant symptoms of a rather severe case of rablentumentia, and was gratified to realize that not one person disagreed with his astute diagnosis of the problem, although that was perhaps due to the fact that none of them had had the misfortune of misplacing their own ear buds and were well-trained and practiced in the art of appearing to listen and give a damn.
2. A person suffering from rablentumentia should not be considered for the position of telemarketer. (So why are they, I wonder?)
3. Some doctors have noted that the duration of rablentumentia can be lessened by the onset of laryngitis and that although there is no proven cure for the condition, being bound and gagged and placed in such isolation as a sound-proof room may significantly reduce the visible and auditory symptoms of the illness and thus the stress levels of everyone involved except for the patient himself, but what the hell, it’s a start.
granny1947
November 10, 2012 at 9:24 am
I get the feeling you have time on your hands today.
grandmalin
November 10, 2012 at 7:31 pm
HAHAHA!! Ya think?? I don’t know what my muse was drinking…lol
shatashari
November 10, 2012 at 11:53 am
“a mental disorder or form of mild psychosis in which the patient is afflicted with very lengthy bouts of non-stop talking in a loud and obnoxious manner with complete disregard for audience and/or subject matter.”
Sounds like a couple of my grandchildren might have this condition as they never stop talking, always speak too loudly within the house, and don’t even make sense…sometimes it’s just noise. : )
grandmalin
November 10, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Well it can be forgiven in kids – hopefully they grow out of it.
happyflowerwordzoo002
November 10, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Appreciate the wit. I’d say more, but – er,
Thank-you.
grandmalin
November 10, 2012 at 9:54 pm
You’re most welcome. And obviously you do not suffer from the above mentioned affliction.
Thanks for stopping by.
Barbara Backer-Gray
November 11, 2012 at 11:37 am
I love it!
marymtf
November 11, 2012 at 5:22 pm
There’s been an oversight here, Gran. You might want to expand on your dictionary definition when you get round to it. you seem to have left out writers. Of course, in our case it’s a matter of misdiagnosis. Civilians believe that we have verbal diarrhea (one of my boys accused me of it only recently), I explained that constant chat is just the way we writers work things through. Great post!