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    Coraline Ada Ehmke‏Verified account @CoralineAda Oct 12

    I made up a word in a dream last night: “lacunescent”, when something is missing its defining characteristic. For example, a murder mystery without a murder, a car without its engine. Is there a real word that has this meaning?

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      1. Coraline Ada Ehmke‏Verified account @CoralineAda Oct 12

        ‘Welcome to the Desert of the Real’: "In today's postmodern, market-oriented economy, many consumer commodities are presented in a manner that deprives them of their malignant properties… coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, and beer without alcohol...."

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      2. Jeremy Kahn‏ @trochee Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda

        "sine qua non" describes the thing left out (cc @tuxedo_and_sass )

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      3. Jeremy Kahn‏ @trochee Oct 12
        Replying to @trochee @CoralineAda @tuxedo_and_sass

        I'm also thinking of some Lakoffian metaphors that are close, but carry troubling connotations in their historical baggage. I name them below, with the Lakoffian in ALL CAPS:

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      4. Jeremy Kahn‏ @trochee Oct 12
        Replying to @trochee @CoralineAda @tuxedo_and_sass

        De-fanged or de-clawed (TEETH ARE POWER) Unleaded (POISON IS EFFECTIVENESS) Neutered, castrated, or un-manned (VIRILITY IS ESSENCE)

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      5. Jeremy Kahn‏ @trochee Oct 12
        Replying to @trochee @CoralineAda @tuxedo_and_sass

        But I'm with @tuxedo_and_sass : "lacunescent" is a beautiful word.

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      6. Coraline Ada Ehmke‏Verified account @CoralineAda Oct 12
        Replying to @trochee @tuxedo_and_sass

        I may need to use this as a song title…

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      7. Jeremy Kahn‏ @trochee Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda @tuxedo_and_sass

        Seems like a better description of the class of things that Alanis Morrissette described in IRONIC than the word "ironic" 🎶 It's ten thousand spoons / when all you need is a knife / it is lacunescent — don't you think 🎶

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      8. Coraline Ada Ehmke‏Verified account @CoralineAda Oct 12
        Replying to @trochee @tuxedo_and_sass

        Hahaha

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      2. Jack Preston‏ @unwttng Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda

        Not sure but it was the theme of the most recent @britishgaming GMTK game jam!

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      3. Coraline Ada Ehmke‏Verified account @CoralineAda Oct 12
        Replying to @unwttng @britishgaming

        Neat!

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      2.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda @data_bae

        So you combined Lacuna Coil and Evanescence into a single concept? :D

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      1. Clive Mansa‏ @clivemansa Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda

        The murder mystery without murder seems more like a paradox maybe. But the car example is more of a conundrum to me, as in "If a car does not have an engine is it still a car?"

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      1. Mike Schaeffer‏ @mschaef_ectw Oct 12
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        Nothing springs to mind (aside from maybe 'vacuous'), but it does sound like a useful word.

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      1. James Doyle‏ @priusjames Oct 12
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        Pointless?

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      1. Jason Brechin‏ @brechin Oct 12
        Replying to @CoralineAda

        The adjectival form of lacuna would be lacunose or maybe lacunal?

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