[Fictionary] glip, gurning, mediser -- RESULTS!

eLLioTT morEton emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu
Sun Jan 16 15:51:18 EST 2011


On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Saturday 15 January 2011 21:40:03 fictioneric at cluemail.com wrote:
>> Elliott: I can never remember which one, rhalphogogic or
>> rhalphopompic, is before and which one is after.
>
> I don't know who Rhalph is, but hypnagogic is the state before sleep.

"To ralph" is a slang term for "to vomit".  I put the h in to make it look 
more Greek, so it would be compatible with -gogic and -pompic -- like 
hypnogogic, "happening as you're about to fall asleep" and hypnopompic 
"happening as you wake up".

em



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