#conglation
Conglation=conflation+conglomerate
September 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This is not what slop refers to. I'm not being purely academic about this. The conflation does matter. Because this is a type of conglation that people do to make any reasonable critique of "A.I." seem overwrought. "Oh they said the same thing about the internet!" And it is not true.
I'm in my early 40s and I definitely remember Wikipedia being treated *as the equivalent* of slop (i.e., untrustworthy) in my final high school/early college years.

It took a couple of years to go from "don't use Wikipedia anyone can put anything there" to "use Wikipedia as a first step."
September 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I rather like conglation
September 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
When a sloppy parallel congeals into accepted equivalent, that’s conglation.
September 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Heh. I once gave someone a birthday card I'd made, and I misspelled "birthday." The person had so much confidence in my intelligence, they were sure it was some clever joke I was making.

When I see you wrote "conglation," I figured it's a word I need to look up!
September 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
“…well if it makes you feel better I think you’re puuurty.”
( she grinned. )

“Please don’t turn my cranium into a conglation of red brain matter.”
January 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
conglation needs to be a new word...
September 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM