Odd coincidence
Jun. 17th, 2007 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfSo, the day before yesterday, I read some Don DeLillo, and encountered the term "myoclonic jerk", which was unknown to me. I wrote it down to look it up later but then forgot about it. Well, today I read some excerpts from Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue", and among them was this bit:
"When you are just dropping off to sleep and you experience that sudden sensation of falling, there is a word for it: myoclonic jerk."
Heh. I *know* that feeling, but I didn't know there was a word for it. Well, I'm not sure there *is* a word for it, in German. But there is, in English.
Isn't it strange how *really* exotic words always seem to suddenly crop up *everywhere*, once you've noticed them for the first time? I remember having a similar experience with the word "theremin" a few years ago. (That's a bizarre musical instrument, in case you're curious.)
"When you are just dropping off to sleep and you experience that sudden sensation of falling, there is a word for it: myoclonic jerk."
Heh. I *know* that feeling, but I didn't know there was a word for it. Well, I'm not sure there *is* a word for it, in German. But there is, in English.
Isn't it strange how *really* exotic words always seem to suddenly crop up *everywhere*, once you've noticed them for the first time? I remember having a similar experience with the word "theremin" a few years ago. (That's a bizarre musical instrument, in case you're curious.)
