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Komorebi—A Beautiful Japanese Word That English Needs

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:10:39 +0000

Highlight:Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese word for “tree,” 木, the word that means “to leak,” 漏れ, and the word for “sun,” 日. Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese

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World Wide Words: Nerd

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:24:22 +0000

Cartoonists, illustrators and other artists have used nerds to mean eraser crumbs for more than sixty years. When I worked at newspapers in the sixties, we had a special brush for getting rid of nerds before inking a drawing because the tiny pieces of rubber would cause blots and blobs on the art.

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S#*@ scientists say

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:36:34 +0000

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10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction ) [Daily 10]

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0000

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THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:05:36 +0000

"In The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem's protagonist finds himself discussing futurology with a scientist and discovers it has been superceded by futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they might me

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Linguistic humor

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:38:09 +0000

"decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you"

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Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/deus ex machina

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:04:42 +0000

"Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty."

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Eastern Standard Tribe

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:39:38 +0000

"This is the second novel I've made available as a free download..."

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