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March 5, 2014
4 of 18 Beautiful Words The English Language Really Needs To Steal
5. Goya – UrduThe suspension of disbelief that can occur through good fiction or storytelling It takes a talented storyteller, to create a sense of ‘Goya’ or as we would called it “disbelief and wonder”6. Prozvonit – Czech
If you’re too cheap to pay for a phonecall, you’ll have done this before. It’s a term used to describe the act of calling someone, letting the phone ring out a few times and then hanging up. Thus forcing the other person to call you back on their own dime.7. Dépaysement – French
The longing feeling of being homesick.8. Sobremesa – Spanish
Those clichéd conversations You’ve just had a delicious dinner with your friends and now you’re all talking about food related subjects and discussing the meal. | So Bad So Good
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Homesick in most languages is a beautiful word. In Welsh, the word is Hiraeth, pronounced he-righth. In
Portuguese, the word is Saudade, pronounced sow-dahj.
Posted by: Jewel at March 5, 2014 11:26 AM
"Thus forcing the other person to call you back on their own dime."
Back when student dorms had only a single pay phone (no phones in rooms, never mind TV's and computers) it was very common for parents to tell their children to do this.
Posted by: pst314 at March 5, 2014 2:43 PM
I like enstupidation. Fred Reed's word, I believe - the word that "dumbed down" is dumbed down from.
Posted by: pfsm at March 5, 2014 4:35 PM
But...but...that's "cultural appropriation"!
I was reading about the Skimington Ride recently.
One of the offenses deemed worthy of public humiliation-(para) when ones wife is acting badly and the husband isn't active in "correcting" her behavior.
Oh, you mean pendejo?
Posted by: CaptDMO at March 7, 2014 8:31 AM
OMG, I meant "cabron" instead of pnndejo, of course!
Posted by: CaptDMO at March 8, 2014 4:41 AM