Club Meds

After I came out of the psychiatric ward the first time, this gentleman I knew asked me where I had been. Not quite sure what to tell him and not wanting to lie, I told him that I was in Club Meds.

I wondered whether he might have thought it to be my ESL style of pronouncing Club Med, though.

Ratology lingo

(1/8/2014 Update: Please see http://neologyratology.blogspot.com/2014/01/ratology-lingo-update.html for the updated Ratology Lingo list)

My writing in the Ratology domain is mostly nothing too close to standard English.  I know it along the way but since I have been using language this way so long, many of the usages have become the standardized Ratology usage.  (Of course, some part of my strange English is simply due to either mindless mistakes or my not-knowing-English-too-well kind of error. 8-O lol)

After I went through the notes and edits of proofreaders who went through the model I developed on my psychosis, I got to better identify how Ratology lingo deviates from standard English. One thing I have to stress is that I have no way to tell whether these preferred usages are a manifestation of the pathology or not--could be and could be not. Following is a list of Ratology language usage  (still a work in process) with some of the points actually already mentioned in the Neologism in Ratology blog.

1. Me’s, myselves, and Is.  Nothing grand and no mistakes... given my split-headed existence and as an attempt to acknowledge all the voices etc in me... there came... "mes, myselves, and Is."
2. I like to put words together to create a new word.
3. I like to build sentences this way: aberrant my brain structure or limited my words as opposed to my aberrant brain structure or my limited words
4. I like to build sentences this way: verb+not as in turn right not
5. I use emoticons to express feelings :-O :-X :-D lol
6. I like the sound of what it be like as opposed to what would it be like
7. I like to use da, them, la, etc as opposed to the standardized the
8. I like to use double negatives: should there be no nothing
9. I like the word: Donno
10. I like the word: Ain’t
11. I use the notion of “self” a lot because being psychotic is all about all things relating to me’s, myselves, and I’s.  Therefore, terminologies like self-related.
12. I like to use vernacular language
13. I use the term “the normal” to refer to “the non-psychotic”
14. Sometimes psychotic is used as a noun to represent a person with psychosis
15. In terms of comma, I really don’t know my commas too well.  However, sometimes that comma I put in does mean a pause partially because I do think slowly and there are pauses between my thoughts
16. The Apocalypses and the notion of being killed a million and a time I speak of refer to the scenarios at the height of my second full-blown psychotic episode.
17. Bend and snap: As per Elle in Legally Blond, "In my experience, it has a 98% success rate of getting a man's attention and when used appropriately -- it has an 83% rate of return on a dinner invitation. It's called the 'bend and snap.'" As per yours truly, I might have to swap "a man's attention" to "my symptoms' attention" and "a dinner invitation" to "an increase in medications." 8-O lol
18. I use the word “la” at the end of the sentence at times. Since 2-3 years ago and after I went back to Taiwan, I picked up this usage of "la" because I simply like it la! Them "la's" you see in my writing, it's the pinyin of the Chinese character "啦":  a final particle of assertion.

(This writing is cross-posted in Ratology Reloaded.)

What's that "la"?

Since 2-3 years ago and after I went back to Taiwan, I picked up this usage of "la" because I simply find it komoji la!

Then, when going through the edits my proofreader made, I realized that that "la" was causing him some confusions. Oopsy...

So, them "la's" you see in my writing, it's the pinyin of the Chinese character "啦":  a final particle of assertion.

C'est ça la! 8-O lol

Bend and snap

Since I use the "Bend and snap" expression quite often, I decide to post this blurb originally posted in Ratology Reloaded here.

DWM and bend and snap

Totally gonna stick to two and a half pills of 25 mg Seroquel until the last minute since them higher level cognitive processing that is required for yours sadomasochist to work on this psychotic model of my cuckoo head is a real...@#$%& (meaning I am not gonna go down on dosage until the fish on the cutting board thing gets too unbearable and, of course, before esophageal spasm strikes however sedated I might be the entire day as long as I have sufficient cognitive capacity to do 1-2 hours of da work to ensure Seroquel can shut the head down afterwards sucessfully...)

Higher level up, thought racing propensity up, grandiosity up and delusions also up... like bend and snap it never fails! 8-O 8-X lol

As per Elle in Legally Blond, "In my experience, it has a 98% success rate of getting a man's attention and when used appropriately -- it has an 83% rate of return on a dinner invitation. It's called the 'bend and snap.'"

As per yours truly, I might have to swap "a man's attention" to "my symptoms' attention" and "a dinner invitation" to "an increase in medications." 8-O lol 

 (The sole reason why I am making this post public is to show you the famous "bend and snap" that never fails! 8-O lol)

all be it albeit

Was checking online about this word I really enjoy using (maybe too excessive) today... "albeit"...

Apparently, it is a late middle English word... (no wonder I like it since I am really a dinosaur in this modern world... lol)

Then, I realize that the word albeit came from the middle English expression of "all be it" although they say it is wrong to use "all be it."

So I thought, all be it proper not, I am gonna try to make a sentence using all be it (erroneous usage or not). 8-O lol

假處分 Provisional Injunction

Given the state of the current affairs in Taiwan, yours legally illiterate heard the term 假處分 all the time and finally decided to look up what 假處分 means.

條文內容：
債權人就金錢請求以外之請求，欲保全強制執行者，得聲請假處分。
假處分，非因請求標的之現狀變更，有日後不能強制執行，或甚難執行之虞者，不得為之。

I originally thought that the word "假" means fake, ended up, it's more like the the 假 in "放假"... 暫時狀態 (temporary state) where nothing changes.

Apparently, in English, this is called Provisional Injunction, "a term that is used to describe the temporary injunction or a preliminary restraining order."

Puerto Plata principle

"Puerto Plata principle?"

When I was in the resort of Puerto Plata, DR., there were open bars everywhere and they even come to restuff alcohol in the refrigerator on a daily basis. A drinker's paradise!

The only problem was that it wouldn't be too much fun if I get too boozed up and wake up with one of them hangovers that last for days with me religiously worshiping the porcelain God by giving back everything I consume. As a result, I had to be disciplined with my drinking- drinking enough to get the money's worth yet not so much that I would wake up with a huge hangover. It was an art to appropriate and an essential art to keep on drinking.... 8-O lol

So, during my recovery process and still, every day, when I find myself having the propensity to push and push even more, so I say to myself... "Puerto Plata principle."

(This was derived from a post originally posted in Ratology Reloaded)