is that too cheesy?
This is a random post.
Did you remember when everybody starts saying 'random'? It was the In Thing. Now everybody goes around saying swag, awesome and YOLO. And hastags (#). A lot of hashtags.
Why can't people start saying words like pulchritude, magnanimous or plebeians?
The generations are moving into a cultural abyss. Really.
Now, I think this should be a post about my favorite words! (Keep in mind, this post is random. Forever-changing and re-sculpting like clay in the deep universe.)
My Favorite Words So Far:
1. Wanderlust --- v. an expression for wanting to venture, something hipsters would say.
2. Rivulet --- n. a very small stream from French literature meaning: small river.
3. Sophomania --- n. overblown opinion of one's intelligence, delusions of superintelligence, me.
4. Daedal --- adj. ingenious, skillful, variously adorned, mazelike diversified
5. Bildungsroman --- n. a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a (usually youthful) character.
6. Cafune --- v. the act of running your fingers through your lover's hair.
7. Jentacular --- n. breakfast, early morning food
8. Glas wen --- n. a smile that is insincere and mocking, Welsh for Blue Smile
9. Kummerspeck --- n. excess weight of gained from emotional overeating, German for Grief Bacon
10. Kai No Yokan --- n. the sense when meeting someone for the first time and come to sense with them that the two are going to fall in love, Japanese
11. Ebb --- n. the movement of the tide out of the sea, v. (of tidewater) move away from the land.
and my favorite one of all,
12. Toska --- adj. Russian, Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
