Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
Catalyst
“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.
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。
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?”
I hate the British one, indifferent about Canada.
No idea why.I will now read every Japanese sentence ending in ね as “innit?”
I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.
I’m a fan of the British “yhu-no”
I never liked the Glaswegian “but”. Silly way to end a sentence but
Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means
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)
It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that’s what it meant.
Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.
ℹ️ “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical”
Plámás. Pronounced plaw-maws. It’s an Irish word that mostly means “gently placate” or “smooth talk” but usually I would use it in the context of placating someone who’s behaving badly.
e.g. Don’t plámás that eejit. You’ll only encourage him.
I don’t think it directly translates to English though someone with better vocabulary may correct me.
I think it sounds a bit like the verb “to humour” as in to play along with someones crap.
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.
Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including “y”.
Lackadaisical.
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
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
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.
Loaf
Moist
Bamboozled has a nice buzz to it.
Its a word that carries an air of a 1960 detective 😍
Liquid
