Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
ね (ne).
Because it’s a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.
そのいえは大きいですね。
ko-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn’t it.に!に!に!
How do you feel about the Canadian “eh?” or the British “innit?”
I will now read every Japanese sentence ending in ね as “innit?”
I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.
I’m a fan of the British “yhu-no”
I never liked the Glaswegian “but”. Silly way to end a sentence but
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Sono*
あああああああああ!!!
Fixed.
Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including “y”.
Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means
It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that’s what it meant.
Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.
I think it means like a person is taking something that is foolish or misguided far to seriously.
Yes :) , it looks that it takes its roots to Don Quixote (english is not my first language but come on, Don Quixote I could have remembered that)
I means acting in a manner that’s hard to understand.
ℹ️ “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical”
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
We use it up here as a form of punctuation, if you can find it check out Bowser and Blue: Use of Fuck in Canada
Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for “stuff”
Kumquat
It sounds funny and it’s fun to say.
Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes
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Onomatopoeia, it’s a fun word on it’s own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.
English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus
French word: hippopotame
“optimal frustration” (one single word in several languages that aren’t English)
Something is too easy? Easily bored.
Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.
Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.
floccinaucinihilipilification
Ah, yes, the state or being of believing in NOTHING
Lackadaisical.
ℹ️ “lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy”
Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.
Asinine. It’s a perfect descriptor and it’s succinct.
Moist
Yes, my fav too, it has such fun uses, as in, that muffin is so moist. just drag out the oi a little. The fact so many dislike the word prolly helps