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Post subject: Re: I think I'm dyin

carguy123
May 08, 2011

Another downplayed minor side effect of Loratidine is the small chance for a stroke. X2 for me and THEN the doctor told me it could have been the Claritin causing the strokes. Never another problem after I went off of it.

TRX
May 08, 2011

Oh, great... I had a very mild one a few months before I got off the stuff. Maybe I went cold turkey just in time.

carguy123
May 08, 2011

It caused me to have 2 (what they called at the time) TIAs, but TIAs leave no damage and I have right side damage plus verbal issues. I can think it, I can say it, but I can't say it. I have to constantly renew my vocabulary.

TRX
May 08, 2011

Not all of those words you are learning are due to damage. In the last few years I've begun regularly coming across words that I've never seen before, that appear to have none of the usual roots. Web searches will occasionally turn them up, but dictionary searches won't. Granted dictionaries can be decades out of date, but if Google can't find it being used prior to a few years before, it's probably made-up.

I figure the pervasiveness of modern media, plus the net, plus text-messaging, lets someone coin a word one day, it'll spread through the English-speaking world within a week, and then it'll vanish from ordinary conversation in another week or two.

Interestingly, when I question people who use some of these words, none of them remembers where they heard it the first time; they've always known it, even if they first heard it just recently. It reminds me of Orwell's "1984" sometimes...