Grrr.
bailey, everywhere
I'm Bailey, a small girl from a small town. I lived a year in Kyoto and I graduated from college in Chicago in June 2010. I lived in Boston for two years but it was a wash. I'm rebuilding from the ground up. I am intent on adventures. I like beautiful things, funny things, photography, Japan, and emoticaps. (I am a vegan in progress and sometimes it happens in public. I yell most frequently about religion, racism, "women's issues," feelings, and dresses.) My friends call me Etsuko. You write it like 悦子 and it is a very good name.
小さな町からの小さな女子ベイリー(悦子とも呼ばれてます、よく合った名前っす)です。一年間京都に住み、２０１０年６月にシカゴ大学から卒業しました。二年弱ボストンに住みましたが結局無駄でしたのでこれから完全なやり直し中。日常生活にも小さい冒険があると信じて過ごしています。趣味は美しいもの、おかしいもの、撮影、日本、とemoticaps。（只今ビーガン工事中でたまにその進歩も公にされます。頻繁に出て来る課題：宗教、人種主義、「女性問題」、感情、ワンピース。）どうぞ宜しくお願い致します♪
onomatomania
noun • /ˌän-ə-ˌmat-ə-ˈmā-nē-ə/ • 1) frustration at being unable to think of an appropriate word. 2) an obsession with or extreme love of a particular word.
ORIGIN: Greek ὂνομα, name + μανία, madness
definition one being more or less the story of my life.
賛成, Hanako. 賛成.
50 most looked-up words on NYTimes.com ›
I am putting ‘x’ next to words I know. :D
via bmichael:
- sui generis x
- solipsistic x
- louche
- laconic x
- saturnine x
- antediluvian x
- epistemological x
- shibboleths x
- penury
- sumptuary x
- schadenfreude x
- peripatetic
- abstruse x
- parlous
- enervating x
- adenoidal
- feckless x
- solipsism x
- ersatz x
- fealty x
- sanguine x
- sartorial
- hagiography x
- pandemic x
- hagiographic x
- dauphin x
- antebellum x
- paroxysm x
- risible x
- interlocutor x
- swine x
- apotheosis
- comity
- Atreus
- banal x
- profligacy x
- Sisyphean x
- inchoate x
- apoplectic x
- neologisms x
- bildungsroman x
- peroration x
- fungible
- recondite
- bonobo x
- phlogiston
- contretemps
- appurtenances x
- glut x
- fecklessness x
Several more I had positive/negative intuitions about but couldn’t define without context. Language is so cool that way.
words wholly related
- eucalyptus & apocalypse: both derive from the greek word καλυπτειν (to cover). Eucalyptus is a tree that covers well and the apocalypse is the ultimate uncovering (or revelation).
- hashish & assassin: the former is Arabic for the intoxicant prepared from dried hemp. The latter comes from hashīshiyy (hashish eater) which was applied the Ismāʿīli sectarians who would intoxicate themselves when preparing to kill a public figure.
GUH I love English.
#reblog #English #words #excitement
2 years ago on July 08, 2009 at 10:38am with 91 notes
Via ragbag
2 years ago on July 08, 2009 at 10:38am with 91 notes
Via ragbag
elelendish
adjective • of another land, foreign.
From Old English eilland, foreign land
Why didn’t I know this word when I was sixteen? I would have named my blog this.
Vocabulary card by Raynor.
What a magnificent bird?
#thanksgiving #words #reblog #photos #turkeys
2 years ago on November 26, 2009 at 03:36pm with 83 notes
Via ragbag
2 years ago on November 26, 2009 at 03:36pm with 83 notes
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mamihlapinatapai
apassingfeeling:coldandpale:frogsandcrowns:merricat:nostalgicdreams:alextenenbaum:
noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
entelechy
noun • 1) the condition of something whose essence is fully realized; an actuality or perfect realization. 2) a vital force that directs an organism toward self-fulfillment; a catalyst to fulfillment.
important things I am thinking about:
I can’t keep from bristling at “cute” or “adorable” from the lips of anyone who isn’t female too.
You are more than this white head that I hold tightly
as a cluster of fruit, every day, between my hands.
sit up and take notice, Pablo Neruda, ‘Every Day You Play’
i cannot stand it when things are as beautiful as this poem is, i think that if i loved a poet i would never live again, i would be pinned to the bed with words like tiny darts and the flush in my veins
