What’s Your Adjective?

Newton has Newtonian. Freud has Freudian. What’s yours?

“Newtonian is an adjective used to describe the classical study of mechanics or dynamics. Isaac Newton is honored in this way because he truly invented and organized a particular way of thinking of forces and motion. Used in a sentence, one might say, ‘The Newtonian worldview is perfectly valid until we study objects moving at the speed of light.’ What would your adjective be and what would it describe? Use it in a sentence.”
— CHRISTINE MCKINLEY, Physics for Rock Stars

Engian, adj., relating to conversational speech, filled with clauses that modify the primary meaning of the sentence, before the primary meaning of the sentence is known to the listener.

“This may not help, and I’m not even sure I completely believe it’s true, though I do think there is some value to the idea, if only as food for thought, but I read the other day in this book—I don’t remember which book it was, or maybe it was an article on Medium—that watching a funny clip on YouTube right after studying will help you remember what you studied,” is a classic Engian sentence.

What’s your adjective?

Leave a note with your definition and sentence.

(If you know me, you can also propose additional definitions of Engian.)