Favourite word and why?
Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 :)
Serene
Good
Applause
Super
Incredible
Hope
Dream
Mostly because of the positive vibes those words give me! 😇
Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.
Yes, my fav too, it has such fun uses, as in, that muffin is so moist. just drag out the oi a little. The fact so many dislike the word prolly helps
"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.