Category Archives: New words for emotions and new words
forever and a day all corners of the world it’s Greek to me short shrift household words thin air fixtures tongue-tied. seen better days, good riddance, charmed life, for goodness sake, didn’t sleep a wink, in a pickle heart of gold.
This seems to tie in with Purposive Drift: Making it Up as We Go Along by Richard Oliver at Change This Your life is not a project plan…. He says we are all more ignorant than we know and smarter than we think and believes our real compass point is our sense of well-being.
My favorite battlefield slang from Iraq via Austin Bay Battle rattle: Slang for combat gear…. “Gone to Blackwater” indicates that a soldier quit the armed services and went to work for a private security firm.
Take a look at In My Language on YouTube. When you watch it, it’s like being in someone else’s skin.
via Jonah Goldberg who I think spends more time sniffing out timewasters and utterly useless bits of information that anyone I know. minimus, ophryon, rasceta and columella nasis all describe parts of the body.
You may be a middlescent The middlescent is frustrated, confused and exasperated, finding themselves leaving work feeling “burned out, bottlenecked and bored”…. That’s a good thing because it’s usually a crisis that forces you to assess your life and find new meaning and passion.
the constant and relentless chatter coming from our computers, phones and other high-tech devices is diluting our mental powers….you’ve become so busy attending to so many inputs and outputs that you become increasingly distracted, irritable, impulsive, restless and, over the long term, underachieving…. If you don’t allow yourself to stop and think, you’re not getting the best of your brain.
When you hit your funny bone, you say “Ouch” or swear because it somehow relieves the pain…. What do you say when someone else hits their funny bone on knee or elbow?
After all, we humans are pretty much the same as humans were a thousand, two thousand years ago except we know what’s happened since and we build on what’s gone before…. Elevation is a new word to describe that warm tingling feeling in the chest you feel when seeing, even reading about, acts of kindness or heroism that motivates you to be better.
