May 2013
35 posts
Foreign Words We Could Use in English →
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Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it?
Tartle (Scots)
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.
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“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via katisque)
“Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their...”
– Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via ellesugars)
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April 2013
51 posts
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via larmoyante)
“…desire, the sole motivating principle of the world, the only master humans must...”
– André Breton, L’Amour fou, translation by Mary Ann Caws (via frenchtwist)
