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What's a word or phrase you'd like to hear more in day to day life? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than "sky blue"
  • gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such ... well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
  • charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
  • the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
  • nubivagant is a word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
  • niggardly is another word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
  • frippery is just fun to say

I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported "Schadenfreude":

  • Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for 'a punchable face'
  • Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who's done something cringe
  • Weltschmerz is a word I'll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age

There's also a Chinese word I'd like to bring into English and make common:

  • 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta "san gwun", means literally "three views", and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"cerulean is a blue dream." -- x-files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yup, Pusher is the first thing I think of related to cerulean.