Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
ね (ne).
Because it’s a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.
そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn’t it.
に！に！に！
How do you feel about the Canadian “eh?” or the British “innit?”
I will now read every Japanese sentence ending in ね as “innit?”
I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.
I’m a fan of the British “yhu-no”
I never liked the Glaswegian “but”. Silly way to end a sentence but
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Sono*
あああああああああ！！！
Fixed.
Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means
It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that’s what it meant.
Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.
I think it means like a person is taking something that is foolish or misguided far to seriously.
Yes :) , it looks that it takes its roots to Don Quixote (english is not my first language but come on, Don Quixote I could have remembered that)
I means acting in a manner that’s hard to understand.
ℹ️ “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical”
Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes
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Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including “y”.
Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for “stuff”
Kumquat
It sounds funny and it’s fun to say.
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
We use it up here as a form of punctuation, if you can find it check out Bowser and Blue: Use of Fuck in Canada
Asinine. It’s a perfect descriptor and it’s succinct.
Onomatopoeia, it’s a fun word on it’s own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.
tatterdemalion
It’s got such a pleasing sound to the ear, feels nice in the mouth when you say it, and even looks pretty nice on the page.
It means something in an advance state of use, with connotations of neglect or disrepair, and is often used to describe things that would be thrown away were they not rendered nessesary by being the only option.
To me it evokes urchins, rags, wildflowers, and a little bit of magic.
I will be trying to shoe string this in to my vocabulary!
Detritus
Hullabaloo
Fracas
Widdershins
Ideological
I think you might enjoy this skit: https://youtu.be/0uuCNAwXGaQ
Fracas is a good one.
Last time I remember hearing that was when Top Gear imploded.
Serene
Good
Applause
Super
Incredible
Hope
Dream
Mostly because of the positive vibes those words give me! 😇
You seem like a really positive person! :)
Aw thank you! 😃
Yawn. If you pronounce it while sleepy, you actually yawn. And the yawn will sound like the word yawn.
Maybe I’m just sleepy, but I like the word :)
“optimal frustration” (one single word in several languages that aren’t English)
Something is too easy? Easily bored.
Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.
Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.
Entreat - verb - ask someone earnestly and anxiously to do something
It’s a handy word that kind of combines “pleading” and “asking”. It’s a bummer it fell out of style because I can think of many scenarios where it would fit perfectly.
I entreat that we bring this word back
