Comments on: Better Words

By: SarahJayne @ Goldmine Trash

SarahJayne @ Goldmine Trash — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:56:38 +0000

Add schadenfreude to the list (pleasure derived from the misfortune of others).

By: Swi

Swi — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:21:40 +0000

Don’t want to sound like a pompous jerk. But gheegle isn’t how you spell it. It’s gigil.

Yeah, alright. :]

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:33:31 +0000

I always loved the Japanese word “aware,” which can mean sorrowfulness or melancholy, but which I had described to me as “the sort of nostalgic sadness that one only feels when looking at newly-fallen snow.”

By: Laetice

Laetice — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:56:13 +0000

I love that in spanish we have two words for love.

Querer = To love, but applied to a lesser degree of love. Platonic, not romantic love. There is an expression: ‘Querer como quien quiere al perro’ which means: To love as one loves the dog. Indicating a lower, more trivial kind of love.

Amar = To love with passion, to adore, as one loves its lover, or children. The romantic and inevitable kind of love when the other person means everything to you.

By: Countersign

Countersign — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:27:33 +0000

Shouldawouldacoulda the feeling you get, sometimes, when you look back on your life.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:53:34 +0000

The complicated explanation/justification/reasoning behind an activity you do that confuses, horrifies or causes a person to make a snap judgment

By: Dexter VanDango

Dexter VanDango — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:07:10 +0000

Here’s a word I think most of us need

To Memorlies.. the act of remembering incidents differently or more positively than they actually occurred… in order to enhance your own self-esteem.

By: carrie

carrie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:34:53 +0000

I posted this on Facebook and got a few wonderful responses:

Gezellig: (Dutch)
1. Having company with a pleasant, friendly ambience
2. Cozy atmosphere
3. An upbeat feeling about the surroundings

and

“We say, “far away”; the Zulu has a sentence-word instead that means: “where one cries, ‘Mother, I am lost.’” And the Fuegian [indigenous inhabitant of Tierra del Fuego] surpasses our analytical wisdom with a sentence-word of seven syllables that literally means: “they look at each other, each waiting for the other to offer to do that which both desire but neither wishes to do.”
That Fuegian word is Mamihluapinatapai.

By: ali

ali — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:03:57 +0000

enhatche- Costa Rican slang for the prolonged surly-stink eye. First Costa Rican slang I ever learned because apparently at my first day of highschool thats the look I gave (when really I think they just misinterpreted a face full of complete terror) (there should be a word for that i guess…misinterpreted facial expressions?)

By: Faux Fuchsia

Faux Fuchsia — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:28:47 +0000

Off topic but do you watch the Tudors? It’s all about the life and loves of Henry the 8th. I’m addicted. Run Don’t Walk. x