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Have you ever experienced semantic satiation? It’s the psychological phenomenon whereby a word is repeated so often it ceases to hold all meaning in the short term. It’s my observation that there my a be longer-term version of this phenomenon, one of the influencers in evolution of language, sometimes pejoratively referred to ‘linguistic corruption’ — because as we’re exposed to terms through culture they start to take on newer meanings.

How do you not understand this still?

As a fairly hardcore wiki-nerd, every now and then I’ll deep dive a specific issue on Wikipedia or another wiki in order to try and understand what’s going on.

Now an important sub-game to play is the fact the the notability threshold for redirects is far, far lower than that of an article, and thus one can quickly amass a comprehensive lexicon of terms which may not even yet be dictionary notable. And thus one can go to the special link for ‘Pages that link to “Brexit” and check the external tool for ‘show redirects only’ and produce the following highlights I call Brexitology:

Breakfast means breakfast — yep, Guido Falkes coined it first

Brecession — A brexit-initiated recession maybe? Or perhaps a cheese shortage? It could be both!

Bregsit — this is either a phonetic spelling of Brexit or a type of extreme pornography banned by the Tories in 2014.

Bremoaner — remember that time a group of people lost an important vote of national consequence and they accepted it without complaint? Interestingly the term doesn’t appear to have been coined immediately after the June referendum, but shot up in popularity from October.

Brexageddon and Brexpocalypse — terms contributed by myself and an associate. Not be be confused with Nostradamus predicting Trump as the 3rd anti-christ. ( Did we miss anti-christ 1 and 2? Damn Hollywood sequels!)

BrExit — I’m assuming the EU will no longer mandate that our water supply be modified with Bromine any more. #takebackcontrol

Brexit cereal — As a child growing up, Nigel Farage was taught that Brexit was the most important meal of the day, as such he dedicated his political career to it’s promotion in the diets of British citizens. Top nutritional advice Nige.

Brexit means breakfast — Both the shadow chancellor John McDonnell and the Welsh conservative leader have advocated the importance of Brexit for breakfast. However the debate continues to evolve whether we should be having Brexit with sprinkles, raw Brexit, free range Brexit, fair trade Brexit and so on. Expect more important Brexit/Breakfast announcements for our political leaders in the future.

Brexit means Brexit — HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS STILL?

Brexit is not just an event, it’s an experience for the whole family! Uh, unless some of your family don’t have sufficiently residential or citizenship rights in which case it’s an experience for just some of the family! We need new adverbs to cover this dynamic landscape including:

Brexited, Brexiting, Brexitish? We may need to consult Dr. Streetmentioner’s future tense guide to cover the rest such as when we wioll haven Brexited, and we mayan on-Brexit and re-onBrexit at some time in the future. Anyhow, I hope that cleared that of everyone past, present and future.

Brexiter and Brexiteer — To me Brexiteer conjurers up a vision of romantic pre-revolutionary France, where the people’s will was guarded by the trio of Gove, Johnson and Farage against the meddling excesses of activist judges and their media cronies. Features constant yaoi sex scenes. Please someone submit this to fanfiction.net so this can happen. More seriously though, unlike the remain terms, Brexiteer was used throughout the campaign and continues to be popular.

Brexitete or Brexite — A tough empathy-resistant material used to construct authoritarian leaders of the UK. No election or previous compatible policy positions required.

This mask of solid Brexite is guaranteed to transform your politic views in no time at all!

Brexitites — A serious condition contracted by nominally first world countries when they accidentally lose referenda on issues they don’t understand and proceed to collectively lose their shit.

Brexshit —The transmission vector for Brexitites carried by most tabloid newspapers. Excreted by UKIP officials and media moguls alike.

BRIXIT — The new British alternative, because LEGO’s from somewhere foreign like Sweden or something. Upcoming sets to include “Britain Island”, the “Take Back Control Space Centre”, “Trade Deal Race Set” and a whole new range of immigration themed sets including “Late Night Takeaway Shop Raid” town sets and “Immigrant Gun Boat Patrol”. The English side of the Channel Tunnel is due to be released separately now.

The types of Brexit we speculated over were numerous. We had ‘Clean Brexit’, ‘Full Brexit’, ‘Hard Brexit’, ‘Soft Brexit’, ‘Swift Brexit’, ‘Brexit Royale with Cheese’ and so on. In the end it appears the government have looked to Daft Punk’s ‘Harder Better Faster’ approach.

Remaniac, Remainer and Remoaner —The first sounds like a popular 90’s cartoon, the second akin to a mathematics concept and the third sounds like niche fetish with a popular following on Reddit. Remoaners represent around 48% of the country and still can’t pick a decent name for themselves. Well, unless you accept the names ‘Northern Irish’, ‘Scottish’ or ‘Londoner’ — but who cares about them right?

With the promise of a Red, White and Blue Brexit already a memory — have we achieved Peak Brexit? Has the word ‘Brexit’ ceased to hold all meaning for you and now you are quietly awaiting the sweet, sweet embrace of death? Well too bad, this is UK politics for the next few years, pull up a chair and bring the popcorn.