I’m sure you’ve all made, or at least seen, those name acronyms where someone takes each letter of their first name and thinks of an adjective that starts with the corresponding letter that describes the person. For example:

Anopisthographic
Delitescent
Autoschediastic
Magirist

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what any of those words mean and they most likely do not actually describe me.)

When I was walking to my psychology research lab room today, I noticed that someone else with a room in our research wing named Lauren had one of these taped to her door. I read it, then noticed something strange about the words following the R – so strange, that I had to stop and take a photo of it.

Since when was “red red wine” an adjective? And since when was “wine” a valid way to describe a human?

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