Reading Gould just now, I ran across the word molluscan meaning pertaining to a mollusk.
This is so cool. I haven’t been so excited about an animal adjective since cygneous.
Now I have to quickly learn how to program a TWAIN driver so that I can release a Linux scanning program called MolluScan. It will, of course, need hooks into the Nautilus file browser, but I can skip having to write OCR functionality into it because no mollusk — not even a cephalopod — can, to the best of my knowledge, read.
(Yes, this is a joke.)
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When I was 14, Lovecraft introduced me to the word “batrachian”, and I’ve held it close to my heart ever since.
Wow. Just last night and this morning, I was thinking through the details of a speculative future religion that deifies Kermit the Frog. Seriously. I had to do something while I was lying awake all night. I still cannot sit for long periods of time in a desk chair. So I lay on the couch and thought about a Kermit the Frog religion. Like you do.
Of all the days to learn a word such as “batrachian”. Wow.
“Batrachian” is going straight into the credal elements of the religion — à la Douglas Adams, use of esoteric vocabulary (and the unwillingness to define the words when asked) would be crucial aspects of top-down control in such a religion.