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pronunciation | in-ka-‘les-snt
pronunciation | ‘pEg-e-“snE-ye (PEEG-eh-snee-yeh)
with thanks to | my “English Literature to the 1800s” professor, and Geoffrey Chaucer
Check out how depressing these thesaurus.com entries for solitary are! This is why I don’t use thesauruses, especially when I do Otherwordly things. I refuse to believe that the only words for solitary are negative. I don’t believe that someone who likes their space sometimes should be called “friendless”, “desolate”, “distant”, “misanthropic”, “unapproachable”, “forsaken”. Those are terrible. Try these.
Solivagant means wandering alone; I’ve always wanted to post it but it has the same distinct suffix as something I already have up wait a second, it’s right here! Waldeinsamkeit is the feeling of being alone in the woods—something I could probably use today. Sturmfrei or stormfree is being alone, with the freedom do what you want.
If you wanted to get metaphorical, you could say you were an inselberg—an isolated mountain. And if you wanted to work baked goods in there somewhere, you could use eremite (closely related, of course, to ‘hermit’) which means someone who lives a solitary life and also, apparently, a “spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts”.
If anyone ever asks why I do this, this is what I’ll tell them—because the universe and the people in it are a lot bigger than any one language can wrap its words around.
Check out how depressing these thesaurus.com entries for solitary are! This is why I don’t use thesauruses, especially when I do Otherwordly things. I refuse to believe that the only words for solitary are negative. I don’t believe that someone who likes their space sometimes should be called “friendless”, “desolate”, “distant”, “misanthropic”, “unapproachable”, “forsaken”. Those are terrible. Try these.
Solivagant means wandering alone. Waldeinsamkeit is the feeling of being alone in the woods—something I could probably use today. Sturmfrei or stormfree is being alone, with the freedom do what you want.
If you wanted to get metaphorical, you could say you were an inselberg—an isolated mountain. And if you wanted to work baked goods in there somewhere, you could use eremite (closely related, of course, to ‘hermit’) which means someone who lives a solitary life and also, apparently, a “spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts”.
If anyone ever asks why I do this, this is what I’ll tell them—because the universe and the people in it are a lot bigger than any one language can wrap its words around.
pronunciation | ‘skin-ship
a brief history | This is a pseudo-English word coined by Japanese speakers referencing existing English words; it is not strictly English. Transliterated into Japanese, it is something like スキンシップ; in Korean, which has adopted the word, it is 스킨십. It can connote ‘sharing a bath naked’, but more often has the platonic context.
(Source: other-wordly)
pronunciation | ‘moot-er-“zE-len-‘al-lIn (al as in ally)
pronunciation | ‘or-i-flaam (ORE-i-flahm)
pronunciation | ‘a-ter-“mwa-men
THAT’S NOT BETTER
Okay, okay, hold up! I’m glad you all like my blog, I’m glad you thought I was a girl/thought I was a guy/thought I was an agender sentient entity/didn’t care about my gender—it is all good. It just feels weird to have half the internet think I’m a guy. I’m not a guy. There’s nothing wrong with guys, I just like being a girl.
Thanks folks. WOOO GIRLS ARE COOL that’s all okay we’re done here
good lord what’ve I been doing wrong
edit okay I’m reading all the replies on that other ask and it’s just unfortunate now /dies
