Mechanismatic
Michael W. Moss | michaelwmoss.com
Writer, maker, and designer. Writer of fantasy, cyberpunk, science fiction, steampunk, horror, and hardboiled noir fiction. Typeface/font designer. Maker of 3D printed, laser cut, and microelectronics projects. Friend of cats and crows.
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This is my favorite gift from my crow buddies:

Mechanismatic@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably.English
4·2 months agoI would guess someone invented the handshake in prehistoric times and we just have no medium in which a record could exist aside from an undiscovered cave drawing or something like that. Humans seem to naturally touch hands outside of any social influence or cultural history. Babies reach out and people touch their hands. It seems like a pretty intuitive human action. We touch things with our hands, so other hands seems natural as a thing to touch. The shake just seems like a minor variation on that.
Mechanismatic@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word?English
4·2 months agoYou can coin a neologism if you can’t find an existing word.
onomato- is a prefix that is often used to mean word or name felic- is a prefix that means happy ortho- can mean correct, but also straight
So maybe orthonomatofelicity?
Probably too long.
Maybe just onomatofelicity?
There are other roots you can find with similar meanings to mix up your own neologism.



Who’s to say alien snot isn’t geologically identical to a rock?