[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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