Wörd of the week – e Ore
- December 20th, 2009
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glee [glee] – noun
1. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.
2. an unaccompanied part song for three or more voices, popular esp. in the 18th century.
Dont stop believing in yourself, in what you want, in what you can be.
Never stop believing in your capacity for Glee
Life Flow
/lahyf floh/ – noun
The flow or amount of work to and from an home, family, or private person
A lifeflow is the sequence of connected steps used to achieve the goals and objectives of your personal life – as opposed to those in your work life. Lifeflow involves tools, techniques and processes that lets you organise your life and make things happen
Some examples:
Saturday Morning Lifeflow involves the houshold chores, gym and shopping that results in being free, relaxed and ready for a fun Saturday night and a lazy Sunday.
News LifeFlow involves finding, ingesting and exploring news content resulting in you being up to date with whats going on in the world – and being able to make witty banter about it at parties, with the further potential result that you will get laid more often (if you prey base includes the geeky and socially aware).
Tsuji-giri n. a Japanese word from samurai days meaning, “to try out a new sword on a passer-by”
The worthless word for the day is: Oblomovian
[fr. Ivan Goncharov's novel, Oblomov]
characterized by sloth or lassitude
(see also Oblomovism, sluggish inertia)
“Gumbo was in a bad mood. His Oblomovian head
was dizzy and drooped over the bar.”
- Drago Jancar, Mocking Desire (tr. 1998)
A lingering sense of dissatisfaction and emptiness caused by prolonged exposure to things with little nutritional or edifying content: junk food, video games, twitter
Yo pron. He or she. First heard in Baltimore schools (“Yo is a clown”), this gender-neutral pronoun has piqued the interest of linguists, whose widely publicized observations are edging the word into general usage.
Thanks to the folks at Wired for this
Hem Bairg
A small leather holdall used by Strine women for carrying all manner of possesions and personal effects with them everywhere they go (“Haya seemie Hem Bairg pet? Air! ya leftit honour flaw roite wear oycud treepova eet! Woy carnya peekie dup, ya shtubid bet!”)
Airpsly Fair-billis
Exceptionally good or pleasing ("Aw heddan Airpsly Fair-billis toime lar snoite")
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