Why “Clutterfication”?

In an earlier post, I ranted about how all the “good” blog names are taken.  I still needed a name for my blog.  It seemed to me that a made-up word my be the key to my success.

The other day, a coworker was talking, “blah blah blah clarification blah blah blah”.  My brain did a double-take because I heard clutterfication instead of clarification.  It didn’t take my brain long to adjust to the correct word, but I thought my misunderstanding was not only humorous, but also somehow appropriate.  So often when we attempt to clarify things we just make them worse:  we clutterfy them instead.

So, I have decided that clutterfy is the antonym of clarify, and there for clutterfication is the opposite of clarification.

In this blog I may clarify some things.  For others, I may just reflect on how clutterfied they are.