Words Are Alive

"Words are alive, cut them and they bleed" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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submitted by notti963 | (watch)

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Kopfkino, usually imagining the most unfortunate outcomes or disgusting details of an event or a situation. (submitted by missionjournaling)

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Isaac Taylor - Table of Runes, “Greeks and Goths: A Study on the Runes”, 1879.

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It was an ancient tradition in Japan, China, and Korea for a literate person to compose a ‘death poem’ as they were dying or before an impending execution. Most were written in haiku or tanka form, and the custom continued into modern Japan. Source

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Word of the Day: affabrous

adj. Characterized by or requiring skill or ingenuity; ingeniously made or finished.

Image credit: Claypots by johannatherealtor. CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay. 

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yaraana याराना

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“the word (temul) was best exemplified by ‘the look in the eye of the horse that is racing where it wants to go, no matter what the rider wants’”. – Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004)

(submitted by blessedbirdsong)

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walwalün, also the sound that the stomach makes when hungry (from Mapudungun, one of the indigenous languages of Argentina and Chile, spoken by the Mapuche people); submitted by stardiouses

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Orchid or demon: Flower of a new species of orchid looks like a devil's head

A lone and unique population of about 30 reddish to dark violet-maroon orchids grows on the small patch of land between the borders of two Colombian departments.

A closer look at its flowers’ heart reveals what appears to be a devil’s head, giving the new species its name—Telipogon diabolicus.

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Runic Alphabet.

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Gobbledygook

Noun

[gob-uh l-dee-goo k] 

1. language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand:     the gobbledegook of government reports.

Origin: 1940-45; fanciful formation from gobble2

“Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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Word of the Day: explicans

n. the explanation or explication given for a fact, thing, or expression

Image Credit: “The scientific explanation” by Ky. CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

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