Neuroblog 002: Graphomania. Not Neurolinguistics; not yet ...

Namaste.

This was to continue our previous blog, it was getting too long.  Brevity is key these days.  And some of us go on & on & on, like yours truly here.  I have been diagnosed with an illness dubbed "graphomania".  And I apologize for my next reaction acronym, acrimoniously?  Acrimoniously not!:  LOL.

But first,

Who has graphomania?  What is it?  Is that even coined as a term?  I see it underlined in red.  Alexa?  Never mind.

Merriam?

As in Merriam-Webster ?

It's the same link, each one above.  Don't bother clicking if you haven't, unless you must.  Must what?  The definition is copied below.   

There is a yellow line grammar-warning under "Must what?" above.   Must be a verb missing or the subtext or subject or whatever it is.  Really?  No line under "Must be a verb missing".  So there.  There what?  Where?

The noun is implied.  Smacked with a blue line for passive voice, as in is implied.  What am I implying?  That I am a noun?  There there.  There must be a verb missing.  Because words aren't repeating, like in "There there", or where?  A comma: There, there.  It's fine.  It's graphomania.  Panic disorder!  

Back to our definition, or rather, Merriam's.  As in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.  It's my favorite, because I am biased.  

graphomania 

 noun 

grapho·​ma·​nia | \ ˌgraf-ō-ˈmā-nē-ə, -nyə  \ 

Medical Definition of graphomania 

: a compulsive urge to write 

Other Words from graphomania 

graphomaniac \ -​nē-​ˌak  \ noun

 

OK, that's it for now.  Bye-bye.  End of blog.  Over & Out.  The compulsion to write has exited, stage right.  

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