Zenzizenzizenzic • Hacker News Board

marcusb wrote: post #16

AStrangeMorrow wrote: post #7

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!

Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)

Yes possible. But really that video of them features the word prominently (even on the thumbnail) AND that vocabulary estimation website. The video/podcast is just slightly over a week old.

Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by farmerbb » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 4:24 AM UTC

jzer0cool wrote: post #23

Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?

I understood that reference.

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by epihelix » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 5:08 AM UTC

gre wrote: post #22

hemidemisemiquaver vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic.

A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by Waterluvian » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #19

not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #2

Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...

I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.

Kind of! It’s the official patented name for the formulation of the original Powerade. Back then it was known as PowerEight. The recipe hasn’t changed.

They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.

Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by epihelix » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 5:16 AM UTC

AStrangeMorrow wrote: post #7

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!

Listened to, I assume you mean?

(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by hun3 » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

momoraul wrote: post #13

Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

(zenzi)³

I mean zenzi-cubic

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by dhosek » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 5:57 AM UTC

epihelix wrote: post #26

gre wrote: post #22

hemidemisemiquaver vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic. A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!

Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions.