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As near as I can tell, this is a word I coined myself. A search of the web and several dictionaries showed no instances of its use, and so I hereby lay claim to it as my intellectual property. (If you think otherwise you'll have to try to beat me to the trademark registration office...)
The word --which despite its novelty meets all the qualifications of any other word, save for being obscure-- derives from combining 'circle' and 'logic.' The suffix indicates a practitioner thereof.
'Circle' itself derives from Greek kírkos, meaning 'ring' or 'circle,' and 'Logic' which derives from the Greek logikós, meaning 'of speech or reason'. The word 'circus' also derives from kírkos, and some ways serves well to explain The Circulogian. It is defined as follows: (I'm allowed to do that by the way, as I made it up!)
cir·cu·lo·gi·an (sûr'kyə-lō'jən)
(n)
1. A person who employs circular logic.
2. A person who observes and comments on circular logic.
3. A place where circular logic is discussed, as in The Circulogian.
(adj)
1. Describes a quality of speech or reason, as in 'a circulogian approach.'
Submitted by Ed on Sun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00
The following appears as-found on the
Internet, in its unedited, uncorrected form, with some editorial
notes. It is included here for both reference to {this} article and as
tribute to its author, a Circulogian Emeritus.Rhinocratic OathsAfter his second wife passed away, Percy Rawlinson seemed to spend more and
more time with his Alsatian owl. His friends told him "You should get
out more, Percy, or you'll wind up looking like a dog, ha ha." He was
later arrested near a lamp post. At his trial some months later he
surprised everyone by mistaking a policeman for a postman and tearing
his trousers off with his bare teeth. In his defence he told the court
"It's hard to tell the difference when they take their hats off."Mrs Betty Pench was playing the trombone when she heard a knock on the
door. "I wonder who that is at eleven o'clock in the morning" she
thought, but cautiously opened the door and instead of the turbaned
ruffian she had expected, she found a very nice young man. "Mrs. Pench,
you've won the car contest, would you like a Triumph Spitfire or 3000
in cash?" He smiled.Submitted by Ed on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 05:23
or, 'What is a Circulogian, Part II'
Circulogian.com continues the fine tradition of circulogianism in all its various aspects as The Circulogian. The explanation in Part I was necessary to the previous sentence. (If you have not yet read Part I, please do so now). It is mocked up as if a newspaper, and while it may be a bad parody in many respects, so are the 'real' papers themselves. Face it. 'Serious journalism' is a thing of the past, despite all the 'seriousness' in which their opinions are presented and portrayed.
We currently have only two columnists, one of whom has known the other for his entire life. (You can use your own circulogian powers to determine our relationship!) In other collaborative endeavors we have each acted as a primary sounding board for the other, off whom to bounce our various ideas before foisting them onto the world at large. We are like-minded, but not single-minded; our views are our own but often even when starting from different points we end up in the same place. It could be said there is a distinct circulogian quality to our relationship and it is not born entirely of the fact of having shared a bedroom for a decade or so.Submitted by Ed on Sun, 04/08/2007 - 12:00