Entry: telemachry (n.)
In context: "Launching the nail out toward the wastebasket now seems like an exercise in telemachry."
'You mean telemetry?'
'How embarrassing. When the skills go they go.'"
Definition: Neologism. Intentional?
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page:249
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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ReplyDeleteThe irony of reading this word in IJ, then googling & finding this all on 4/22/22. :-)
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