Tuesday, August 17, 2010

wordsmithery: incept

Incept -- v. The act of surreptitiously seeding an idea within someone's mind to influence their behavior, often by lying, trickery, or wit. Sometimes done overtly and transparently for comical effect.

Examples of usage:

Teen 1: My mother won't let me come to the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus concert. FML.
Teen 2: Just incept that you cleaned up your room or something.

Bro 1: Dude, I'm trying to convince my gf that a three way would be a good idea.
Bro 2: Want me to incept that shit?
Bro 1: You mean roofies?

White Collar Gent 1: This idea is way out there. Definitely not gonna fly with our boss.
White Collar Gent 2: Don't worry. I'm have a plan to incept it. We'll come out of the meeting with a full budget.
White Collar Gent 1: Do you mean inceive?
White Collar Gent 2: This is why I'm a senior analyst and you are just an analyst.

4 comments:

  1. How come cept is not a word by itself? I really want to go to that apparatus concert. Whatever happened to the play on people's initials or that thing you talked about before, as it was similar to us making up band names?

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  2. "FML." Haha. Is this Apparatus group a real thing?

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  3. Also, what would happen if I worked at Cadmus?

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