Today I made up a new word, ephiphemera<\/i>. I use it to describe something very specific. I will explain.<\/p>\n
In every era there are large events that focus everyone’s attention. It might be a war, a rocket ship to the moon, a contentious election, or a pandemic. The one thing you can be sure about is that the same thing is on everyone’s mind.<\/p>\n
In the moment, the phenomenon can loom so large that an entire new vocabulary is built around it. Many new words and phrases are coined, each creating its own little epiphenomenon.<\/p>\n
Most of those words and phrases will fall by the wayside soon after the phenomenon itself has passed, part of the forgotten detritus of history. Eventually, only people of a certain age will know the meaning behind such epiphemeral phrases as white bronco<\/i> or the COVID 15<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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