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[iabervon]

kesh
n. one of a set of equal and incompatible options, such that (if there is more than one) exactly one must be chosen arbitrarily. It is generally fine to have a problem with a single kesh, but a problem which gets two (or more) keshes is known as a bikeshed problem, and people will argue pointlessly about it forever.

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[iabervon]

Because I once saw something referred to as a "bikeshed problem" and actually wondered what a kesh was until I figured out from context and only then realized the intended parse.

[oonh]

so if you had a boathamericandynamicableedingrate, there would be

you can't have the boat and the athame simultaneously, so that's one kesh
you can't have the athame and the boat, so that's another kesh
you can't have the athame and the american, so that's another kesh
you can't have the candy and the american, so that's another kesh
you can't have the candy and the dynamic, so that's another kesh
you can't have the dynamic and the amicable, so that's another kesh
you can't have the amicable and the bleeding, so that's another kesh
and you can't have the bleeding and the ingrate, so that's another kesh

so this string has eight pairwise keshes?