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May themes
This month's themes are foreign words not found in the English language. Happy writing!
1. l'appel du vide ("the call of the void", the instinctive urge to jump from high places)
2. keien (appearing to respect someone while actually keeping them at a distance)
3. luftmensch ("one who lives on air", an impractical dreamer with no business sense)
4. jung (a feeling stronger than love that can only be proved after surviving a huge argument)
5. zhaghzhagh (the chattering of teeth due to cold or rage)
6. lagom (not too much or too little, but just right)
7. backpfeifengesicht (a face badly in need of a fist)
8. glas wen (an insincere or mocking smile)
9. saudade (longing for that which you love and which is lost)
10. kalpa (time passing on a cosmic scale)
11. gumusservi (moonlight shining on water)
12. manque (having failed to become what one might have been)
13. mamihlapinatapei (the look shared by two who desire to start something yet are reluctant to)
14. ilunga (forgive the first time, tolerate the second, never a third)
15. ya'aburnee ("may you bury me", one's hope of dying before another because it'd be too hard to live without them)
16. koi no yokan ("premonition of love," the sense two have upon meeting that they will fall in love)
17. duende (the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person)
18. schadenfreude (pleasure from someone else's pain)
19. yuputka (walking in the woods at night)
20. orenda (the invocation of the power of human will to change the world around us)
21. greng-jai (not wanting someone to do something for you because it would inconvenience them)
22. cavoli riscaldati (attempting to revive an unworkable relationship)
23. retrouvailles (the happiness of meeting again after a long time)
24. ayurnamat (no point in worrying about that which can't be changed)
25. kouyou (the changing of the colors in fall)
26. nunchi (the subtle art of listening to and gauging others, and knowing what to do in a situation)
27. goya (the as-if, transporting suspension of belief one feels from good storytelling)
28. dépaysement (the feeling from not being in one's home country)
29. guanxi (goodwill built up and used with gifts and favors)
30. sisu (determination, tenacity, resilience, perseverance, stoic toughness)
31. toska (the anguish, ache, and yearning of the soul)
Annotations:
(Except for most of the Japanese ones, I got all of these from those "20/40/60/etc foreign words not found in the English language" lists, so if you want more info on any of them then it'll be easy to find those.)
1. French
2. Japanese; specifically, it's keeping up polite appearances while trying to keep distance between yourself and someone whom you dislike or who irritates you, makes you feel uncomfortable, etc
3. Yiddish - "The prototype of the luftmensh was one Leone da Modena...who listed his skills and cited no fewer than twenty-six professions… Why would so accomplished a man be classified as a luftmensh? Because out of all twenty-six professions..he barely made a living."
4. Korean
5. Persian
6. Swedish
7. German
8. Welsh - literally "blue smile"
9. Portuguese - can also mean to love and long for something that never existed, that does not or cannot possibly exist
10. Sanskrit
11. Turkish
12. French
13. Yagan, an indigenous language from Tierra del Fuego. In not-constricted English, it's "the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start."
14. Bantu; more specifically, it's the stature of a person "who is ready to forgive and forget any first abuse, tolerate it the second time, but never forgive nor tolerate on the third offense."
15. Arabic
16. Japanese
17. Spanish
18. German
19. Ulwa
20. Huron; also, the counterforce to fate or destiny
21. Thai
22. Italian - literally "reheated cabbage"
23. French
24. Inuktitut
25. Japanese; refers to the leaves changing colors and is a seasonal event like hanami (cherry blossom viewing) that many people go to see yearly
26. Korean
27. Urdu
28. French
29. Mandarin Chinese; more specifically, you build up guanxi by treating people or doing favors for them, and you use up guanxi by asking for favors/guanxi to be repaid
30. Finnish; not quite bravery but more the "will and decisiveness to surmount challenges against impossible odds" (for more, check wikipedia)
31. Russian, and okay I ridiculously paraphrased for the purpose of space. From Vladmir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
1. l'appel du vide ("the call of the void", the instinctive urge to jump from high places)
2. keien (appearing to respect someone while actually keeping them at a distance)
3. luftmensch ("one who lives on air", an impractical dreamer with no business sense)
4. jung (a feeling stronger than love that can only be proved after surviving a huge argument)
5. zhaghzhagh (the chattering of teeth due to cold or rage)
6. lagom (not too much or too little, but just right)
7. backpfeifengesicht (a face badly in need of a fist)
8. glas wen (an insincere or mocking smile)
9. saudade (longing for that which you love and which is lost)
10. kalpa (time passing on a cosmic scale)
11. gumusservi (moonlight shining on water)
12. manque (having failed to become what one might have been)
13. mamihlapinatapei (the look shared by two who desire to start something yet are reluctant to)
14. ilunga (forgive the first time, tolerate the second, never a third)
15. ya'aburnee ("may you bury me", one's hope of dying before another because it'd be too hard to live without them)
16. koi no yokan ("premonition of love," the sense two have upon meeting that they will fall in love)
17. duende (the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person)
18. schadenfreude (pleasure from someone else's pain)
19. yuputka (walking in the woods at night)
20. orenda (the invocation of the power of human will to change the world around us)
21. greng-jai (not wanting someone to do something for you because it would inconvenience them)
22. cavoli riscaldati (attempting to revive an unworkable relationship)
23. retrouvailles (the happiness of meeting again after a long time)
24. ayurnamat (no point in worrying about that which can't be changed)
25. kouyou (the changing of the colors in fall)
26. nunchi (the subtle art of listening to and gauging others, and knowing what to do in a situation)
27. goya (the as-if, transporting suspension of belief one feels from good storytelling)
28. dépaysement (the feeling from not being in one's home country)
29. guanxi (goodwill built up and used with gifts and favors)
30. sisu (determination, tenacity, resilience, perseverance, stoic toughness)
31. toska (the anguish, ache, and yearning of the soul)
Annotations:
(Except for most of the Japanese ones, I got all of these from those "20/40/60/etc foreign words not found in the English language" lists, so if you want more info on any of them then it'll be easy to find those.)
1. French
2. Japanese; specifically, it's keeping up polite appearances while trying to keep distance between yourself and someone whom you dislike or who irritates you, makes you feel uncomfortable, etc
3. Yiddish - "The prototype of the luftmensh was one Leone da Modena...who listed his skills and cited no fewer than twenty-six professions… Why would so accomplished a man be classified as a luftmensh? Because out of all twenty-six professions..he barely made a living."
4. Korean
5. Persian
6. Swedish
7. German
8. Welsh - literally "blue smile"
9. Portuguese - can also mean to love and long for something that never existed, that does not or cannot possibly exist
10. Sanskrit
11. Turkish
12. French
13. Yagan, an indigenous language from Tierra del Fuego. In not-constricted English, it's "the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start."
14. Bantu; more specifically, it's the stature of a person "who is ready to forgive and forget any first abuse, tolerate it the second time, but never forgive nor tolerate on the third offense."
15. Arabic
16. Japanese
17. Spanish
18. German
19. Ulwa
20. Huron; also, the counterforce to fate or destiny
21. Thai
22. Italian - literally "reheated cabbage"
23. French
24. Inuktitut
25. Japanese; refers to the leaves changing colors and is a seasonal event like hanami (cherry blossom viewing) that many people go to see yearly
26. Korean
27. Urdu
28. French
29. Mandarin Chinese; more specifically, you build up guanxi by treating people or doing favors for them, and you use up guanxi by asking for favors/guanxi to be repaid
30. Finnish; not quite bravery but more the "will and decisiveness to surmount challenges against impossible odds" (for more, check wikipedia)
31. Russian, and okay I ridiculously paraphrased for the purpose of space. From Vladmir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”