Ah the usefulness of languages: being able to more or less
navigate in three, I have long realized the benefits of other languages.
Sometimes it is the English that best explains a situation, sometimes the
French is more elaborate, a verbal bouquet of “fleurs” (flowers), then again it
might be a pithy German expression such as Schadenfreude
that makes it into our own vocabulary
Now Facebook is not necessarily known for its wealth of
properly written sentences (sorry, even I am not always ready with a
grammatically correct phrase whilst replying to one or the other posting),
however it does introduce one to some lovely sites where one can enjoy the
written word, be it quotations, be it slang, be it funny, be it profound.
This morning I came across one such site – thanks Shawnee - delightfully
labeled “Word Porn” ( mailto:https://www.facebook.com/thispageisaboutwords
) where the word of the day “Nothing
haunts us like the things we don’t say” Mitch Albom, led me to the site where I
discovered Dormiveglia., which was
described as “the space that stretches between waking and sleeping”. Well it is actually an
Italian word that means half-awake, or half-asleep, whichever you choose, but
the description is a great one of how many people look at their day!
So, off to explore more fun words, such as alexithymia – go on, I dare you, look it
up! Words are such fun!
Just make them all golden.
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