Rhinovirus noun A virus that affects your nose (i.e. rihno in Latin). NOT a virus that would turn you into a rhinoceros.
Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change As opposed to nostalgia--the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home--solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.
Hmm. In other words, when I take a walk in the local park, and I see how many people threw away plastic wrappers and Coke cans on the grass (so the whole thing looks terrible, and bums me out) ... would that be solastalgia?
Hmm. Do you mean something like "Goddammit!! No matter how much I recycle, there's still garbage in the water and poison in the sky!! I miss the bad old days, when I turned on the tap and got hot and cold running crud!"
Illeism: the act of referring to oneself in the third person From the Latin ille, meaning "he" or "it."
Did anyone mention Latin? *cracks his knuckles* For a start, these two maxims are well-worth knowing... Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Translated (not quite literally, but close enough) as “The times change, and we must also change with them.” Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. Translated (not quite literally, but close enough) as “If you’d kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you knew what you were talking about.” But that's rather mean. So here's a nicer one ... nos qui morituri volumus uti latrina. We who are about to die want to use the toilet!
More an abbreviation than a word - can be used in place of etc. -- Etm. - in Latin, et merda, which translates - "and shit"
