Episode 57 - BOOMPF ..."It's Create a Word Day!"

The Hopeful Humanist Cafe

Join me as I talk with Captain Jack and Danielson for over 30 minutes about a word - BOOMPF - we collectively brought into existence merely with the socially constructed wags of the tongue - this is the power of the declarative speech act! To prevent confusion, note that we are birthing the word "BOOMPF" to be distinguished from the words boomp, boomf, and whoomp (feel free to perform your own investigative google searches to flesh out the differences). After listening, perhaps it might be your turn to invent a word, define it, and share it with the world?

T-shirt ideas:

1) Everyone has a book to write (at least one, right?)

2) Ith (cosmic pronoun)

Our New Word:

Boompf (noun, adjective, onamonapia-interjection): a surprising and sudden "there it is" completing experience of a pondering thought; an abstraction being realized and manifested in the dynamic now.

Side thoughts: altogetherswish, drift-lift (Danielson), covid-sigh (Danielson), druffle (??)

Show Case Resources:

1) Need some help inventing some new words, go to DeGraeve.Com to invent some combination words: Click here: https://www.degraeve.com/invent-a-word/

2) "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture." Interested in discovering some more of Douglas Coupland's creative additions to the English language go to your local library or buy it on Amazon by clicking on this link - https://www.amazon.ca/Generation-Canada-Reads-Accelerated-Culture/dp/031264678X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=383DYHJL0UGTV&dchild=1&keywords=generation+x+douglas+coupland&qid=1606063635&sprefix=Generation+X%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-2

Related Hopeful Humanist Café episodes:

1) Episode 45 - Fostering Creativity - Generation Alpha and Driver-less Cars (hopefulhumanistcafe.com)

2) Episode 27 “Feeding and Extinguishing the Fire of … Dot, Dot, Dot” (hopefulhumanistcafe.com)

Please email me at [e-mail] to share your DIY words, cool tool resources for others to consider for their spiritual tool boxes, and any activity that you think can nurture the human need for creativity.

Thank you for joining me for another tip of the iceberg conversation at The Hopeful Humanist Café. Peace, take care, be well, and share!!