Terminalcoffee discussion

Pei-Ying Lin, a design student at London's Royal College of Art, created two infographics mapping emotions for which there are no English words. One maps emotions where words do exist in other languages and one maps five emotions unique to the computer/information age which are unnamed in English.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article...

We need a word for the despair you feel looking at all your untamed computer cords lying on the floor like a pile of snakes.

Bewired? Fruscorded? Techspaired?

A word for the combination of anger and ennui you feel looking at your dirty house.

Explodation? Cantakered? Grombadgioned?

A word for that split second of panic or discomfort you feel when you see someone in public who you know and really don't want to talk to, and you wonder if they've already seen you or haven't yet seen you.

Aghastonic? Flubbered? Vanbloughed?

1. Discordaged? (discouraged + cord)

2. Melanfury? (melancholy + fury)

3. Fridreadend? (dread + friend)

I like melanfury.

Driend. (dread + friend)

Dreadiend. (dreaded friend)

Leave it to Phil to make me apply reason and thought behind my process of making up words.

I think driend is a noun referring directly to the dreaded friend, rather than to the emotion felt upon seeing them.

Ah yes, that sounds correct. Thank you, fine sir.

Lobstergirl wrote: "A word for the combination of anger and ennui you feel looking at your dirty house."


MOTHERHOOD

Bahahaha!

Zen nailed it!