Fantasy/Sci-Fi words which should become mainstream

Huw

Huw

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Just a bit of fun here. Tolkien brought us the word "Hobbit" and arguably the modern definition of "Orc", and most people understand what both of those mean. So, what other words from speculative fiction should we be able to drop into casual conversation (IYHO, of course)

My starters:

"Hnau" (C.S. Lewis Cosmic Trilogy) "Intelligent being capable of making moral decisions"
"Knurd" (Terry Pratchett) "State of awareness in which you need to drink alcohol to become sober"
"Phlebotinum" (AFAICT David Greenwalt Buffy the Vampire Slayer, popularised by www.tvtropes.org ) "Fictional substance which explains how something unscientific works"

Please no Clockwork Orange. That's just mispronounced Russian. Original or reappropriated words only.
 

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I've seen "One the one hand...on the other hand...on the gripping hand" used several times now. (It's from Larry Niven's The Gripping Hand, a sequel to The Mote in God's Eye.)

Johnathan
 


Gneech. From Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger novels.

It means... er... it means... wait, I'll remember it in a minute... umm....

No. It's gone. Oh well.
 





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