Compendium of Lost Words
So you think that habroneme isn't English? Or obrumpent. Ah, you foppotee, you should be pudified. You need to see this.
Dicaearchies, though, are just a figment of our imagination.
Dicaearchies, though, are just a figment of our imagination.
I love his list of favorite words.
'Tis Galimatias.
What's your favourite word, incidentally? Mine's paralepsis...any my favourite form of repartee.
Simulacra definately. Can't have enough of that word.
Ohh, and Spannungsbogen.
From Dune:
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
German root: arc (bogen) of tension (spannung).
OK, I'll stop myself from adding any more words now.
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