Sniglets

The dicey moment when you should introduce two people but can’t remember one of their names: whomnesia, persona non data, notworking, mumbleduction, introducking

The realization of the perfect riposte three hours after the argument: hindser, retrotort, afterism

The momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers or not: conphonesion, phonundrum, ringxiety, fauxallarm

sarchasm n. The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it

~ Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature