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fishy
03-09-2004, 01:42 AM
I've always thought hypoglycemic to be something of a mouthful and more than a little underwhelming for such a potentially dramatic event. It further occured that since the accepted noun is hypo rather than "hypoglycemic episode" or somesuch then there is a very obvious adjective to use instead. Which I duly started using and a) rather liked it and b) found that everyone knew exactly what I meant.

Therefore I wish to officially annouce for your consideration a new adjective: HYPOTIC.

Example usage:

"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm just feeling a little hypotic"

"I can't believe you did that!"
"What can I say? I was hypotic"

"Good God man can't you see I am hypotic! Fetch me a sticky bun."

And so on.

I would encourage you all to use this word (its royalty free) amongst your friends and family and with your doctors and carers. and hopefully it will catch on.

If you are in America you might like to explain that the word is all the rage in England (US Docs are almost all golf obsessives and therefore unreconstructed Anglophiles).

If you are in England then say its a new invention from a multi-million dollar research project at Stanford and they will start using the term in the hope of being seen as progressive and deserving of a lucrative job in sunny California rather than a badly paid job in dreary Wolverhampton.

If you are French say it in a breathy accent while gently touching your Endo's knee and asking him/her if they are free for dinner on Saturday evening. (Do NOT try this in the US or you will be court for years)

I thank you for your atttention.

Matthew

Jon
03-09-2004, 01:58 AM
I don't know, it kind of sounds like psychotic. Besides, hypoglycemic sounds so serious. If you tell somebody you are hypoglycemic, their eyes get big and they say "Oh!" but if you tell them you are hypotic, they would say "uh-huh" and then make an excuse to get away.

Shalyndria
03-09-2004, 09:12 AM
LOL Matthew and Jon!! :D

Hmmm, the prefix hypo = decreased, suffix -ic = pertaining to...yeah that might work only problem I see is this:

Are you OK?!
Yeah I'm feeling a little hypotic
Thought Bubble above non-diabetic head:
OMG DUDE'S GOT SCHIZOPHRENIA!!! RUN AWAY!

And so on...

LOL :thumbsup:

Shy

fishy
03-09-2004, 09:16 AM
Actually if someone said "Hypotic" to me before I knew about Diabetes I would assume they were talking about a fashionable nightclub that played experimental German Techno or something.

Matthew

Shalyndria
03-09-2004, 12:14 PM
LOL Matthew!!! :D :D

Or a bunch of stuffy philosophers sitting around discussing Plato...in which case that'd make you look really strange when you say you're hypotic...

Shy

Gina
03-09-2004, 12:49 PM
LOL THIS IS FUNNY I LIKE HYPOTIC....

When i am low in my family we call it the

GOO-GOO'S

because your eyes can sometimes become all googlie....that is my diabetic dictionary word....

It also is royalty FREE

rzrbks
03-10-2004, 10:33 PM
(Do NOT try this in the US or you will be court for years)

They'll put you under the jail and pump sunlight down to you.

snakeye
03-12-2004, 08:07 PM
In turkish if you say "My sugar is low" it could be interpreted something like "I've dropped my candy" in english..

Thats somthing which I would call recursive translation.
:rolleyes:

actually when I'm hypotic nobody knows it...if they know it, it's something like "get me some sugar I'm pegin out!"

lumplump
03-14-2004, 02:38 PM
You could apply a whole host of variations as well.

Hyposis: Being in a Hypotic state
Hypotoid: A tendancy to be Hypotic.
Hypotical: Theoretically Hypotic.
Hypotin: A diabetic drug(sugar,insulin, you decide)
Hypoticrat:Eats high carbs after preaching the evils of said carbs.

and so on...

Harold
03-14-2004, 04:19 PM
Finding it more difficult to use words that end in "TIC" to describe myself. Makes me feel buggy.