What's an Alternym?
I listen, I listen
But I'm so confused
I'm lost in a daze
No longer amused
I don't understand
I can't concentrate
What do I ask for
So I can relate
Analogies and similes are figures of speech
Synonyms and antonyms are also in reach
How about an idiom or a metaphor
There's so many options which one do I ask for?
I'll make up a word
that's easy to use
Alternym sounds good to me
That's the one I'll choose!
Alternyms should encompass all
connections for anything
Let me ask my dad his thoughts
"Hey dad ya there?
Ping!"
Yes my son, what do you
need?
Just
wanted to share a
thought
Alternyms
connect
all things
That's confusing, I think
not!
It should only be relations
that people can conceive
Everything that doesn't make sense
it should exclude and leave
But those things we can't explain
the way they connect together
Doesn't mean they don't relate
it's just something to uncover
How about this my son tell me what you think
The relationships that most understand
we'll call an alternym
And all your confusing ideas that aren't
will be a fuzzynym
I think I understand you
but let me try and say
what you're trying to tell me
in my own silly way
An alternym to fuzzynym is an alternym to
Dan
The unexplained relations to all known things to
man
To find the jump from A to Z can be something hard to
see
Until the right person comes along and explains it all to
me
Slowly wiggling across the line
this made up fuzzynym
Ends up with an explanation
It's now an
alternym!
"Oh! Contrary!"
said father Gary
You're missing the point my son
If everything relates together
will be confusing to everyone
This conflict will continue on for many years I'm sure
What is and isn't an alternym is a big humongous
blur!
So when you're confused in conversation
on any given day
Ask them for an alternym
and be curious to what they say!