
A friend was grading papers the other morning and ran across a blatant misspelling of panopticon. It was “Pacontpicon” or some such. Now, I don’t expect everyone, or nearly anyone, to be conversant in the finer details of panoptic theory, but if you are writing a college-level paper that dabbles in it, you’d best spell it correctly. And if you can’t spell it correctly, at least try to incorporate the misspelling into an amusing offshoot. Consider the following:
- PantsOpticon - the all-seeing, all-knowing mystical trousers.
- Pan-Conniption - wherein the entire globe throws a huge hissyfit all at once.
- PamOpticon – oh wait, that was my derby name, but it reminds me of …
- PamOptician – the best ever mangling of my derby name.
- Co-opticon – wherein everything within view is taken for one’s own use.
- Synopticon – wherein everyone has pretty much the same point of view.
- Subopticon – everything happens below eye level.
- PantsOptionalCon – like the fabled Pants-Off Dance-Off, only better.
- Fiberopticon – now, this is just getting silly.
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