Serious or irreverent welcome
Here’s how it is, spoken by Malcolm Reynolds.
Hot diggity dog, let’s strike while the iron is hot and get on the ball while it’s rolling with some old tyme phrases.
“I was wrong”
I love being wrong, it’s the gateway to new knowledge, but other people view not knowing through a self-esteem lens
I love you. :'(
‘moist’
My son has you covered. He calls me a “moisty boi” something like 100 times a day. I’m still not sure why other than it being some kind of dis.
Hysteresis
Knowing the word would ideally be due to people knowing the meaning of it, which most people can’t grasp. Especially important for most political actions, such as tariffs and climate change.
Smoke weed every day
I was wrong.
Everybody wants to hear that, nobody wants to say it.
Too much to ask, pure fantasy
“Hi nice to meet you I’m your soulmate and future wife and I’m going to fix you and we’ll help fix the world together”
(i mean if someone said that exact phrase to me I’d probably run screaming lol. But you know.)
- “Thank you”
- “My bad”
- “I am not familiar with the subject so I have no opinion on it”
On point number 3, I once got dunked on for saying that I didn’t know anything about the subject at hand when asked. The other person told me “Well, that’s just a cop out. Just make something up!”
edit: clarification
I petition to bring back regular use of Kerfuffle.
Same for dust-up.
I’ll sign that petition no doubt
Catalyst
“Wow isn’t life great since we went to the 3 day working week!”
- cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than “sky blue”
- gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such … well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
- charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
- the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
- nubivagant is a word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
- niggardly is another word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
- frippery is just fun to say
I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported “Schadenfreude”:
- Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for ‘a punchable face’
- Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who’s done something cringe
- Weltschmerz is a word I’ll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age
There’s also a Chinese word I’d like to bring into English and make common:
- 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta “san gwun”, means literally “three views”, and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals
“cerulean is a blue dream.” – x-files
Yup, Pusher is the first thing I think of related to cerulean.
Verisimilitude. It’s just nice.
It’s a good word! How would you use it in a sentence?
I’m less high now!
I normally use it when talking about miniatures and toy train setups.
“The miniature painted conifers with bits of snow really have the scene verisimilitude”
I could still be very wrong.
Do you mean the simulacra gave the scene verisimilitude?
Very likely! Even when not high, I use words wrongly! Very very wrongly.
Poorly! As I’m currently high and do not feel confident using it correctly!
Looks cool though!
