nevver:

thou, I, not, that, we, to give, who, this, what, man/male, ye, old, mother, to hear, hand, fire, to pull, black, to flow, bark, ashes, to spit, worm

topherchris:

‘Unfollow’ added to Oxford Dictionary Online.

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svitoj:

There is a Russian word “toska”, that is not possible to translate into English, but for me   it means: “existential longing for something that does not exist”.

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nevver:

Omnishambles beats Eurogeddon, Gif and Mobot as Oxford word of the year

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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nevver:

1. Zhaghzhagh (Persian)
The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage.
2. Yuputka (Ulwa)
A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.
3. Lampadato (Italian)
Addicted to the infra-red glow of tanning salons? This word describes you.
4. Luftmensch (Yiddish)
The Yiddish have scores of words to describe social misfits. This one is for an impractical dreamer with no business sense. Literally, air person.
5. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it.
6. Cotisuelto (Caribbean Spanish)
A word that would aptly describe the prevailing fashion trend among American men under 40, it means one who wears the shirt tail outside of his trousers.
7. Pana Po’o (Hawaiian)
“Hmm, now where did I leave those keys?” he said, pana po’oing. It means to scratch your head in order to help you remember something you’ve forgotten.
8. Gumusservi (Turkish)
Meteorologists can be poets in Turkey with words like this at their disposal. It means moonlight shining on water.
9. Vybafnout (Czech)
A word tailor-made for annoying older brothers—it means to jump out and say boo.
10. Mencolek (Indonesian)
You know that old trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them? The Indonesians have a word for it.
11. Faamiti (Samoan)
To make a squeaking sound by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child.
12. Glas wen (Welsh)
A smile that is insincere or mocking. Literally, a blue smile.
13. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
The experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.
14. Boketto (Japanese)
It’s nice to know that the Japanese think enough of the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking to give it a name.
15. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

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kateoplis:

19 Emotions For Which English Has No Words

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nevver:

1. Omphaloskepsis: meditation while gazing at one’s navel.
2. Pickedevant: a Van Dyke beard.
3. Malneirophrenia: depression following a nightmare.
4. Lissotrichous: having straight hair.
5. Junkettaceous: frivolous, worthless.
6. Sinciput: the forehead.
7. Whigmaleery: a knickknack or a geegaw; a whim.
8. Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.
9. Goubemouche: a gullible person (literally, one who swallows flies).
10. Kakkorhaphiophobia: fear of failure.
11. Nibby-jibby: narrow margin; a close call.
12. Anaphalantiasis: the falling out of the eyebrows.
13. Quakebuttock: a coward.
14. Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.
15. Floccinaucinihilipilification: the categorizing of something as worthless trivia.

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nevver:

Infographic Names 21 Emotions with No English Word Equivalents

nevver:

1. box tent : the plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes
2. jamais vu : that feeling of seeing something for the first time, even though there’s nothing new about it
3. paresthesia : that tingling sensation when your foot falls asleep
4. grawlix : the string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (“$%@!”)
5. caruncula : the small, triangular pink bump on the inside corner of each eye
6. badinage : another word for playful banter
7. rhumba : a group of rattlesnakes
8. dringle : to waste time by being lazy
9. agraffe : the wire cage that keeps the cork in a bottle of champagne
10. wings : those back flaps on a bra
11. rasher : a single slice of bacon
12. purlicue : the web between your thumb and forefinger

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nevver:

“Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.”
- Voltaire

“[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
- Clifton Paul Fadiman

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when close together. They give strength when they are wide apart.”
- Mark Twain

“The road to hell is paved with adjectives.”
- Stephen King

“[The adjective] is the one part of speech first seized upon and worked to death by novices and inferior writers.”
- J.I. Rodale

“Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.”
- Ezra Pound

“The adjective has not been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”
- E.B. White

“[Whoever writes in English] is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective.”
- George Orwell

“Most adjectives are also unnecessary. Like adverbs, they are sprinkled into sentences by writers who don’t stop to think that the concept is already in the noun.”
- William Zissner

(Source: other-wordly, via underfundig)