mental-pause
n.— «I sold all my scuba diving equipment and now I’m waiting for my new DFX to arrive from a dealer. My wife said I’m going thru Mid-Life- “Mental”-Pause again.» —“Whites DFX Users Classroom Forum: Newbie looking for the right lingo” by Fivefingers Find’s Treasure Forum Sept. 18, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
British broadcaster, comedian, and logophile Stephen Fry offers a helpful if tongue-in-cheek suggestion in his newsletter The Fry Corner: Let’s all write AI, the shortened form of artificial intelligence, as Ai. Fry reasons that the upper-case...
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he...
WE have all had days, weeks, and possibly years like that. As the saying goes, ” ever STOP to think and forget to START again?” THATS what my HOUSE call “mental-pause”. THANKS for the GIGGLE. KATHE