Here’s an interesting article listing wonderful words for concepts. The comments are interesting as well. Check it out !
(Bonus- now the first line to the theme from Laverne and Shirley makes sense!)
Join 16.3K other subscribers
Come visit my Facebook page. Snippets of the current novel-in-progress show up there for your amusement.
Thanks for coming by!
- 494,030 visitors so far. Welcome back again soon!
Categories
- Alpha-biography
- anecdotes
- book reviews
- Commentary
- Friendship
- fun
- Grace Awakening
- Grace Awakening Myth
- Grace Beguiling – Petrarch
- Harp
- Literature
- Monday Meme
- Murdering Mr. Edwards
- Mythology
- narrative
- OUTLANDERishness
- poem
- Poetry
- Pondering
- poodles
- projects
- Quotations
- Reading
- Recipes
- Rotary
- Rotary invocations
- Teaching
- Uncategorized
- video
- Writing
Shawn L. Bird 
These are absolutely excellent!! Thanks for shouting it out, it’s been great reading.
One English word I love is “defenestration” which means “lobbing a chair out a window”.
lol That IS a good one! I recognize ‘fenetre’ French for window.
lol:)… 1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon…geez
I know. I loved that one. Fits with the TOPS pledge: I am an intelligent person. I will control my emotions and not let my emotions control me. Any time I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember…. (HA I FORGOT the rest! lol)
love these! Just wish they included pronunciations…and I certainly know a few people Backpfeifengesicht applies to…
Reblogged this on Polymnia Blues.
Some fantastic choices there.Putting them in the OED gets my vote. xx Hugs xx
lol
And I thought Cafune had something to do with coffee, but well….. haha Nice read, very interesting, thanks for sharing this 🙂
My pleasure!
LOL the slampadati and the cavoli riscaldati could be interesting…actually cavoli…is a substitute for the word cazzi…naughty word for male reproductive organ, but also for confusion and difficulties…so we can have cavoli amari, or cavoli acidi…bitter or acidic cabbages and lots of other types of cabbages as well…it’s very funny translating them 😉
and the translating tends to reveal something of the national character, in my experience… That is a quite fascinating tidbit you’ve provided! lol
Backpfeifengesicht lol a face badly in need of a fist 😀 Love it….Love the whole article xx
Me, too. 🙂
Haha thank you, this made my day 🙂
I had a good laugh, too. 🙂
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
MAYBE WE COULD…!