Gallant Efforts

[DrPlacebo]

I think the author Terry Pratchett would disagree with the dictionary on this occasion. In his Discworld books, if you drink too much Klatchian coffee while drunk, it can sober you up too much so you pass through the state of sobriety and out the other side, and end up being knurd. Not many people can handle being knurd, because you see the world too clearly in a way that the human brain can't process. I guess "oversaneness" could be a mild case of knurdness.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself.
ROS: Or just as mad.
GUIL: Or just as mad.
ROS: And he does both.
GUIL: So there you are.
ROS: Stark raving sane.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

[crazykate]

I guess excessive sanity isn't a thing -- you can't be OVERSANE.

(OVERSANENESS and OVERSANENESSES don't count either.)

I think the author Terry Pratchett would disagree with the dictionary on this occasion. In his Discworld books, if you drink too much Klatchian coffee while drunk, it can sober you up too much so you pass through the state of sobriety and out the other side, and end up being knurd. Not many people can handle being knurd, because you see the world too clearly in a way that the human brain can't process. I guess "oversaneness" could be a mild case of knurdness.

[DrPlacebo]

I guess excessive sanity isn't a thing -- you can't be OVERSANE.

(OVERSANENESS and OVERSANENESSES don't count either.)

[BoggleOtaku]

OVEREDUCATIONING: a perennial state of attending college with no plan to finish

[DrPlacebo]

Superstition is a thing, but SUBSTITION is not.

[DrPlacebo]

ELECTRODEMOGRAPHY isn't a thing, in case you were wondering.

[BoggleOtaku]

FUMBLINGNESSES is a word (scored by DrPlacebo), but BUMBLINGNESSES is not!

[DrPlacebo]

A very small price-fixing scheme is not a MICROCARTEL.

[DrPlacebo]

Apparently you can't be an ORANGOLOGIST.

[BoggleOtaku]

This brings up the question of when media-invented words or portmanteaus through subsequent common usage become words.

SNOWMAGEDDON is in Lexic but not SNOWPOCALYPSE.
GUSTNADO is but not FIRENADO, EXFLURMINATION or MEDICANE.
SLURVE is but not SCOOPIE.
AFFLUENZA, EGOSURFING, CHILLAX are but not BRODOWN.

[dannyb]

That is surprising. I have read "capologist" online and in the paper, not to mention hearing it spoken on sports talk shows.

[DrPlacebo]

As much as sports fanatics talk about "capology," CAPOLOGIST doesn't count.

[Nyannecca]

Make it make sense:
With one "L" --
Enrol ✓
Reenrol ✗
Preenrol ✗
Enrolment ✓
Reenrolment ✗
Preenrolment ✗

With two "L's" --
Enroll ✓
Reenroll ✓
Preenroll ✗
Enrollment ✓
Reenrollment ✗
Preenrollment ✓

[DrPlacebo]

Being a huge fan of Europop isn't EUROMANIA.

[DrPlacebo]

I wanted QUAGGAE to be the plural of quagga. Oh well.