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What a piece of work is a word,
Without shape or form or faculty,
And yet to apprehend the thing,
To understand so as to be understood.
To be searching and left wanting,
To be careless or too cautious,
To utter such a thing and in the doing,
Expose my soul.
A Purple Monkey Dishwasher by Scott Gowell
I don’t speak German but I love German loan words. It is in this spirit that I am coining these two neologisms, speicherschmerz & speicherfreude. They translate literally as ‘memory pain’ and ‘memory joy’ respectively.
I hope that they can capture that awful pain of searching through one’s brain for the particular Simpsons’ episode that someone has quoted and conversely the joy of getting the reference, the more obscure the better.
eg.
“Damn this speicherschmerz, where the hell have I heard ‘Purple Monkey Dishwasher’ before?”
“Ah, such sweet speicherfreude, that’s from The Simpsons episode where Bart gets the teachers to go on strike.”
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