What new word did you learn today?

Well, if we bothered to invent the word, then at one time, yes. If we bothered to propagate it, then probably frequently.

 

Nah, I don't buy it. I think you guys are just showing off all the cool things your language can do.

 

I love words like that. I saw a Tweet a while ago that contained a bunch of rarely used unusual words along those lines. I can only remember a few:

Wamble - the correct name for a stomach rumble.
Tines - the prongs on a fork.
Tittle - the name for the dot above the lower case i or j.
Petrichor - the name for what it smells like after it rains.
Overmorrow - the day after tomorrow.

 

That's delicious, I love it. I haven't seen "overmorrow" used before, but it maps exactly to the Norwegian "overmorgen". Well, there goes that one special thing we had.

 

"Morgen" is Germanic, we may both have got it from there.

 

Most assuredly. I mean, I'm assuming, since both we and the actual Germans use that word. How y'all managed to turned it into "morrow" I don't know, but hey. Language lives a life of its own if you're not paying attention.

 

For when you want to give your crappy natural disaster movies a Victorian vibe.

 

"Hark! For overmorrow, we perish, lest we somehow contrive to stop this runaway timepiece!"

 

I learned the word 娼婦 (しょうふ) today.

It may prove useful.

 

That's a naughty word. For shame.

 

What's the tittliest word you've ever seen?

 

Golf? Funny typo.

 

Well, I once had occasion to learn a few words of Finnish. "Tissit" is a pretty titty word, on account of that's what it means.

 

If that was one of the few words of Finnish you learned, I'll just mentally fill in the blanks on what the other few were. Hope the evening went well

 

No, man, I'll help you out. Another was "olut" (beer) and then I don't remember any more? I guess I learned perklele, which is some kind of cuss.

 

Soporific means drowsy.

 

Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.



Should be a real recognized word.

 

Minkenry - training mink to hunt and fish for you.

 

Probably "indistinguishability."

 

indistinguishabilities?

we need some Js in there!

 

Jiujitsuizationing? (The act of increasing the amount of jiu-jitsu in MMA fighting, perhaps.)

 

I remember it from this old book:

Don't know if anyone has really read it though, it got pretty awful reviews when it was published:

 

The critique is worse than it paints the victim.