January 2012
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“But just as Facebook has become an instrument for meeting and seducing new...”
– Wesley Yang
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beauty in everything: 20 weird English words →
Erinaceous: Like a hedgehog
Lamprophony: Loudness and clarity of voice
Depone: To testify under oath
Finnimbrun: A trinket or knick-knack
Floccinaucinihilipilification: Estimation that something is valueless. Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flockə-nowsə-nəkələ-pələ-fək-ation.
Inaniloquent: Pertaining to idle talk
Limerance: An attempt at a scientific study...
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weird word of the week:
stickyembraces:
pogonotrophy - n,the act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
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Merism - Wikipedia →
A figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing. See, e.g. “heavens & earth,” “high & low,” and “have & to hold.”
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Figured out how to put things under a cut. Because...
thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:
People rarely date their actual friends. They date friends of friends, and people they met in bars and slept with six hours later. They date coworkers and people they met on OK Cupid. I’m always amused by the clichéd “let’s just be friends” breakup speech for that exact reason. Chances are you were never friends before you decided to be lovers, so there’s no frame of...
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“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is...”
– Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)
This combined with reading Open City last year has cemented by fierce, unapologetic love for Teju Cole.
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YES i have been struggling with how to articulate this
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Most of my family members were born...