Critical Failures

Coinage 2.

Posted in Uncategorized by criticalfailing on January 14, 2009

Two portmanteau words I recently invented, through failed attempts to say one or the other.

Awsul. “Awesome” and “awful.”

Terrible in a way that inspires positive awe.

Boignant: “Buoyant” and “poignant.”

The bittersweet feeling of knowing something very pleasing will not be repeated.

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