Thursday, December 28, 2017

Gargalesis and Knismesis

Gargalesis is what we commonly refer to as tickling.  Knismesis is a light form of tickling, like when an insect is walking over our skin.

Gargalesthesia is the response to tickling and Hypergargalesthesia is the term for being very sensitive to tickling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knismesis_and_gargalesis


Wednesday, April 5, 2017

The Scunthorpe problem

The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter blocks out content based on a partial word sort of words from a list of forbidden words (the eponymous problem occurred when residents of Scunthorpe, England had their posts blocked).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Hapax legomenon

Hapax legomenon is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon

Pareidolia

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.  Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia