Gematria Debunked By Sniglets

Returning again to the origin of language, not as a way to communicate but to hide small numbers in words by the incredibly evil forces set against us. Often to mock or pay tribute to some other event, for purposes yet undisclosed. Or so they say.


Even in the Kelvinator's "What is Gematria" description there is encouragement to look for synchronicities in your personal life. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to find magical connections through the mystical power of gematria. As long as you believe that two digit numbers are magical.


I could get all existential on the personalization theme. Maybe lead in with a bit about Dan doing gematria on LOUD NOISE. It gets too weird. I'd have to create another twin brother for Attu, the Wonder Turtle for philosophical stuff and I really don't have the energy right now. So I'll take the was way out and pick something middle of the road. Part personalized to an individual, part with a foothold in the lives of others around you. And it's something that's been around for decades. It's language, and therefore the creepy cabal must be involved. The Sniglet.


A sniglet is basically a made up word. The origin and majority of usage is for comedy. The idea is to create what looks like a real word that should be found in the dictionary, but isn't. Sniglet is itself a sniglet.


Sarchasm - The gap between the maker of sardonic humor and the understanding of the comment's target.


Anticiparcellate- Waiting until the postman is a few doors away before retrieving the mail so as not to appear too anxious.


Choconivorous - The practice of starting consumption of a chocolate Easter bunny by biting the head off first.


The new word division is awfully busy. There's some time travel, mind reading or some super power at work. If I choose o describe this super power as supercalafragalisticgematrialidocious, that instantly becomes a meaningful word to be gematrifiable. Or I could save everyone a lot of time and call them "uz".


Uz isn't particularly humorous, and not in the spirit of sniglets that were invented by comedian, Rich Hall. But this is the way language works. Something nonverbal needs a description. If you don't have a pre-existing word, you make a new one. The dictionary wasn't created by Jeannie bobbing her head and crossing her arms and it just appeared. All of the words that will exist that don't exist now aren't waiting to be discovered because some vague and undefined super power has preordained them to hold two digit numbers.


Combining making up your own words with your own ciphers you can make anything be any number you want. I sense a lamprey argument coming on. A lamprement.


Yes, I will dedicate an entire post to some sniglets of my own. The first one that came to mind as I typed this is:


Dandemonium - The confusion created in trying to follow Dan's logic in a blog post he made.


And of course I've already been using apufeemia and others already.


I recommend the original sniglet books; they are hilarious. Also fun for an amusing look at fancy big words as discussed previously, Peter Bowler's series The Superior Person's Book of Words. I promise the authors have not converted a single word into a number.