👉 Okay, letās tackle this wonderfully prickly little beast of a word - āmiotc." Now, before you immediately start picturing tiny mechanical owls, let me assure you, that was
absolutely not
the intended starting point for its creation!
Basically, "miot-ā¦ okay, here's the thing. 'Miotcā isn't actually a formally recognised, pretty-sounding word. Neither of us really knows exactly where it came from. It began as a very specific, almost entirely accidental inside joke within a small, rather eccentric collective of conceptual linguists and absurdist microbloggers aboutā¦ 10 years ago now. Essentially, the whole thing sprung up after someone jokingly proposed defining a word by simply stating the feeling that one has when you almost, just almost, but not quite, understand something utterly baffling. It was meant as a ridiculous, self-referential absurdity, like defining "purple wobble-thistle-fleetingness. 18. The initial tweet then went viral in this weird corner of the internetāthat little black hole where people trade definitions for nonsense and really bad poetry. There are now, at most, a few hundred total documented instances of it being used! And here's what is important - nobody truly knows what it means. Here's the gist:āmiot-ā¦it's an acknowledgement that you've stumbled upon something profoundly weird and therefore you can
