Abusing the Lexicon

Fun with arbitrary compund Germish & Latin

• Versteckenekelfreude - Hiding joy with revulsion. Used to descibe the popularity of Nazis torturing girls in their skivvies on the covers of men's magazines throughout the 50s or episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
• Corripio Superfluo - The point at which a viral marketing campaign bleeds outside of it's intentional boundaries and into daily life, eventually losing contact with it's original marketing purpose. A self-replicating simulacrum.
• Cryptosomnium - A riddle cloaked in mystery, surrounded by illusion, dipped in chocolate sauce, that, at it's heart, means nothing. e.g. "Don't Forget to Drink Your Ovaltine".

—May 15th, 2006

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