Presticogitation. Yargh.

Some of my new favorite words:

Presticogitation – rapid mental processing that commands compliance because of its speed and beauty

This word was created by James Vanden Bosch, a professor at Calvin College. In describing the exact word he was looking for when creating “presticogitation,” he comments: "I wanted a word that would refer, playfully, to a phenomenon that had not yet been named, namely, the fast and powerful thinking that so dazzles the listener that the sheer speed and brightness of the performance brings the listener into quick, even grateful, compliance or agreement."

I like it. :)

Yargh – this one is difficult to define directly, but a friend and I have been trying to dissect its peculiarities for weeks. Sometimes context clues help, so here are snippets of our conversations about yargh:

* “I could be fairly described as yarghed.”
* “Being social while in a state of yargh is…difficult.”
* “We need to find unyargh times to deyargh.”
* “At least acknowledging the yargh diminishes some of the yarghness of yargh.”
And my personal favorite…
* “This (mood) can only really be described as yargh, because I don’t know how to break out of the yargh, which is pretty much the definition of yargh.”