January 2011
16 posts
Making "fetch" happen
therealkatiewest:
rosalarian:
I hear a lot of grammatically-inclined people constantly bemoaning the use of singular “they”. Though there are many grammar scholars who say that singular “they” is a legitimate use of the word, and has been used in such a way throughout the history of the language and by many respected writers, most of the people debating grammar on the internet aren’t grammar...
Tintinnabulous →
(tnt-nby-lr) also tin·tin·nab·u·lar·y (-lr) or tin·tin·nab·u·lous (-ls)
adj.
Of or relating to bells or the ringing of bells.
sycamore:
“Arete, in its basic sense, means excellence of any kind. In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one’s full potential.”
-Wikipedia
get a hot load of this word
ragbag:
aread (verb)
to divine the meaning of obscure words, interpret a dream, (or) solve a riddle or enigma.
these are my three favourite activities! if only aread also described working out on a nordicflex, i wouldn’t need to use another verb again ever.
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source: the oh ee dee
demimondaine
foudre:
demimondaine n. a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society
10 anti-tech words →
Highlights include Spamnesia, Intermet and Sheeple.
Swedish Lesson #1
ckck:
Gift [jif:t]
In Swedish, the word gift has two meanings:
being married
poison
Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
Déjà Vu: the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously—you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is a firm...
Syllogism →
A syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός – syllogismos – “conclusion,” “inference”) or logical appeal is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises) of a certain form, i.e. categorical proposition.
A categorical syllogism consists of three parts: the major premise, the minor premise and the conclusion.
Each part...
dovryn:
My favorite word is mildew.
American Dialect Society
2010 Words of the... →
Highlights include:
fauxhemian
spillionaire
and of course
trend (vb.)