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Not a lit major, never seen the term Mupdeemut before, but now excited to use it. Plenty of opportunity in personal and work conversation.

edit: back to recommend against using Mupdeemut. People thought i was saying something derogatory and i had to spend significant time explaining myself.



Padgett coins the word in the interview:

  [m]ade-[u]p [p]eople [d]oing [m]ade-[u]p [t]hings. Let’s call that MUPDMUT. With some liberty, Mupdeemut


Honestly sounds like something straight out of a Pogo comic strip


This is as funny as the interview.


Interesting, neither Google, nor GPT-4 know anything about that term, outside of TFA.


He clearly made it up during the interview.

I admit I spent more time right clicking -> 'search the web' for some of the words he used. Incredible vocabulary.. I have to use 'intellection' soon, I've needed to use a word like that before but couldn't find it.


I obviously need to pay more attention. Thank you very much.

Cheers!


well you could use understanding


'intellection' has a more playful connotation, especially as the author interviewed used it, because it's needlessly academic and sounds made up




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