I have, twice that I can remember.

  • Nukamajig - microwave. I still use it from time to time because it's too stupid not to.
  • Miscombobulate - mixup and confuse. Just now, between the time it was and when the appartment building's laundry room was closed for the night.
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A patient i worked with did this a lot, often using same or similar sounding words.

Medical or technical things were often alosorous, usually too alosorous.

People got described as mashoki or mershoki - i couldn't tell which it was supposed to be.

There were one or two other ones that came up regularly and a host of one-offs. The only one-off i remember is that my smile was as lovely as a han-gono.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Meshuggah means "mad" in Yiddish. The other words may have been Yiddish too.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Apparently the patient had once said that mashoki was a term of respect. My family's jewish, and linguists, so i've heard a reasonable amount of yiddish.

    To me it sounds most like japanese, but the patient has never shown any famaliarity with japan or japenese.

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