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
Thursday, December 28, 2017
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
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
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
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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