Urban Dictionary

One of my new hobbies is writing definitions for Urban Dictionary. I’m very interested in philosophy, psychology, the mechanics that drive behavior and creation and information processing.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=shadyladyk

I submitted “Egotistical dividends” today:

Egotistical dividends

The fallout in terms of benefits of having an ego.

“There are concrete egotistical dividends; an artist’s ego is what compels him to create art; a poet’s ego lends her sufficient hubris to cause her to express herself in a poem.”

Related concepts: byproducts, ego, creation, art, process.

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Here are the rest of my submissions, which have all been accepted by Urban Dictionary:

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Planned casualness

Use of maturely worded cliches to imply a level of maturity–of self-possession–that the speaker doesn’t actually possess.

“I think your planned casualness rather gauche, rather inconsistent in comparison with your demonstrated behavioral spectrum.”

Related concepts: authenticity machiavellian delay self-consciousness transparency ego.

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Machiavellian delay

A conscious delay in response for the purpose of not appearing too overly eager to respond.

“I reject the concept of a Machiavellian delay. I think social networking has made this tactic transparent. The new ethic is authenticity, which lends itself to fluid communication.”

Related concepts: authenticity self-consciousness transparency ego premeditation.

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article bling

A citation or link to an article in a social forum used to advertise social, cultural or intellectual capital.
“I like how you prefaced that cool article bling with a teaser citation.”

“Nice article bling bootie.”

Related concepts: eruditism social capital framing machiavellian reasoning game theory.

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Thought poacher

A thought poacher consciously takes someone’s thought and presents it as though it is their own. To poach a thought, one must be aware of its source when elocuting it.

“She stole my hep idea, that dag-blasted thought poacher.”

Related concepts: parrot mimic ape plagiarist pretender.

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Thought bling

An original idea advertised in a social context to enhance the reputation of the person presenting the idea.

“Ew, she’s such a brain. What a bunch of thought bling. Let’s rip her to shreds.”

Related concepts: intellectualism egotism precociousness personal marketing elitism.

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I’m working on definitions for the following phrases, which mostly deal with learning theory:

Free flow thought panning, meta-extrapolation, shape ideation, thought salting, learning salt, oysterization, organic construction/composition/engineering, beachhead organization, audience salt, caustic byproduct, context wrapping, context condensing, concept beachhead, consideration territory, consideration frontier, consideration mapping, situational epiphany, serendipitous collage artifact.

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And these are to do with learning, expression and perception:

Cyclical progression/regression, concept cloud approximation, public thinking, banal ethic, quieted ethic, associative blaming, blamecasting, faux abstraction, unintended gloving, shrinkwrap victim, mistaken interpolation, aggressive esoterica.

– Lady K