Serious or irreverent welcome
I love you. :'(
‘moist’
Hysteresis
Knowing the word would ideally be due to people knowing the meaning of it, which most people can’t grasp. Especially important for most political actions, such as tariffs and climate change.
Smoke weed every day
I was wrong.
Too much to ask, pure fantasy
- “Thank you”
- “My bad”
- “I am not familiar with the subject so I have no opinion on it”
On point number 3, I once got dunked on for saying that I didn’t know anything about the subject at hand when asked. The other person told me “Well, that’s just a cop out. Just make something up!”
edit: clarification
I petition to bring back regular use of Kerfuffle.
I’ll sign that petition no doubt
“Hi nice to meet you I’m your soulmate and future wife and I’m going to fix you and we’ll help fix the world together”
(i mean if someone said that exact phrase to me I’d probably run screaming lol. But you know.)
“Wow isn’t life great since we went to the 3 day working week!”
Catalyst
“lambasts” or “pillories” instead of “slams” in news headlines
How about “threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table” instead of “slams”
lambasts
Lambastes?
Verisimilitude. It’s just nice.
It’s a good word! How would you use it in a sentence?
I’m less high now!
I normally use it when talking about miniatures and toy train setups.
“The miniature painted conifers with bits of snow really have the scene verisimilitude”
I could still be very wrong.
Do you mean the simulacra gave the scene verisimilitude?
Very likely! Even when not high, I use words wrongly! Very very wrongly.
Poorly! As I’m currently high and do not feel confident using it correctly!
Looks cool though!
The general meaning is the appearance of truth or validity.
But I usually use it to describe something that is “believable” even if the underlying premise is not. So a fantasy story that pays close attention to detail and is highly consistent might be described as having versimilitude. On the other hand, a story where the characters make out-of-character choices might be lacking versimilitude, even if there are no overtly “fictional” elements to the story.
That’s usually how I’ve heard it used, not sure if it’s the “main” usage though.
The novelist’s meticulous attention to historical detail—from the cadence of 19th-century dialogue to the texture of hand-stitched corsets—lent her story an uncanny verisimilitude, making even the most outlandish plot twists feel hauntingly plausible.
“Bosom”. Religious nuts shouldn’t have a monopoly on the word. Also, it makes me chuckle every time.
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
It’s like the wholesome counterpart to “boob.” Both kinda sound like what they describe, but “bosom” feels classy.
- 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
“cerulean is a blue dream.” – x-files
Yup, Pusher is the first thing I think of related to cerulean.
“proselytize”
Only came across the word recently.
