Kumquat
It sounds funny and it's fun to say.
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Kumquat
It sounds funny and it's fun to say.
Monachopsis. The subtle and persistent feeling of being out of place, in the company of misfits and dreaming of a place to belong.
And i blame you for the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows binge you've put me on
Qualia - instances of subjective conscious experience
It's fun to say, fun to think about how your red and my red differ subjectively but we still agree that red is red, and just a fun word.
The concept itself has many strong detractors and arguments against it being real, but eh, I'll keep on thinking about it.
Serene
Good
Applause
Super
Incredible
Hope
Dream
Mostly because of the positive vibes those words give me! 😇
'Sennight'. It means ten days. Saying it just feels like making a flourish with my tongue.
Aw. :( I wanted to be right about that one.
Reasonable
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
Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for "stuff"
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 :)
Asinine. It's a perfect descriptor and it's succinct.
Not a native Spanish speaker but I've always loved "otoño" (autumn). Such a beautiful word to say.
And it rhymes with another beautiful word
Teyandee!
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
Detritus
Hullabaloo
Fracas
Widdershins
Ideological
Fracas is a good one.
Last time I remember hearing that was when Top Gear imploded.
Chaos.
I love what it represents, how it can be good or evil depending on your point of view (there's a reason why DnD used it as an axis perpendicular to Good-Evil), and it sounds really cool. It is also the first word I'd use to describe my life at any point in time. Maybe life itself!
It sounds good in all languages I know but has the distinction of sounding even better in English, despite coming from the Greek Kaos it somehow sounds cooler in English (a distinction shared by few, if any, other words coming from Greek to English). It is also written in an amazing manner, with a "H" that came out of nowhere and has no reason to be there other than just cause... Chaos. I love it.
The Greek pronunciation is actually Haos (with a heavy H like hotel), so this is where H is coming from. It's the C that is actually added in order for English to attempt to pronounce it closer to the original sound (and fail as per usual. Look up paranoia for example).
Liquid
Fuck, because it is the most fucking versatile fucking word we could fucking come up with for things that we don’t know what the fuck they are or we fucking do but no one fucking cares.
Bamboozled has a nice buzz to it.
Its a word that carries an air of a 1960 detective 😍
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.
Sono*
あああああああああ!!!
Fixed.
に!に!に!
How do you feel about the Canadian "eh?" or the British "innit?"
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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!
Differential, différentielle, or diferencial
In English, French, and Spanish, it just sounds cool no matter what accent.
Might as well throw in a scandinavian version while you're at it: Differensial or differensiert depending on context
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.
I means acting in a manner that's hard to understand.
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)
Loaf