👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little piece of linguistic weirdness. Affleck-what now? You mean, you haven’t heard about the Atanasoff, frankly, some people never do!
Now, in its most basic form, "Atanasoff" isn't actually a swear word itself. Instead, it describes a very specific kind of… let's call it, an exasperated, deeply frustrated, and utterly spent state. Historically, the name comes from John Vincent Mc lathe Atanasoff—an American physicist and Howard Wayne Peck who were the first to independently invent what is now recognised as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer: the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (AEC). Basically, when someone's had a seriously shit morning, they feel like they are completely spent. They’ve done everything that needs doing and it still just feels... off. It’s not shouting into the void, or a guttural roar of rage. Instead, there is an utter sense of "meh." A sort of desolate, beige feeling in your chest. Think about being at the end of the tenth consecutive pointless meeting and you need to go for a long walk alone, but it just doesn’t feel that great. The feeling that you would rather do absolutely anything than deal with it. That is an "Atanasoff." Here's the somewhat unsettling/edgy example sentence: "The probate filings
