before you say cellar door
Top 10 Loanwords (via)
10. Ennui
Pronunciation: on-wee
French. Boredom of the soul.
9. Schadenfreude
Pronunciation: shah-din-froyd-ə
German. Taking joy in the suffering of others.
8. Wanderlust
Pronunciation: vunder-loost
German. A strong longing or desire towards wandering.
7. Sehnsucht
Pronunciation: sane-zookt
German. A self-destructive or addictive yearning for a time, place or thing that one can’t explain.
6. Saudade
Pronunciation: saw-the-thə
Portuguese. A feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future, although deep down you know it probably wont.
5. Doppelganger
Pronunciation: dopple-gang-ə
German. The ghostly double of a living person.
4. Weltschmerz
Pronunciation: velt-shmeartz
German. The pathological suffering felt by one who has realized that physical reality can never truly satisfy the demands of the mind. A melancholy sense of anguish about the nature of being.
3. Zeitgeist
Pronunciation: zight-gihst
German. Something that captures the spirit of the era.
2. Ad Hominem
Pronunciation: add om-in-im
Latin. Replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking the person who made it, and not what he said.
1. Déjà vu
Pronunciation: day-zha voo
French. The sense of having already seen or hear something being experienced for the first time.
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Thumbs up if you learned 8 out of 10 of these from being in CAL, where sophomores threw them around to look cool.
Robert Beard's 100 Most Beautiful Words in English via reddit
Another list from Altalang.
The Meaning of Tingo (Amazon link) -- I was able to find a copy on library.nu. A sample from another book in the series, Toujours Tingo on The Telegraph. Lol "layogenic". Our claim to fame.
10. Ennui
Pronunciation: on-wee
French. Boredom of the soul.
9. Schadenfreude
Pronunciation: shah-din-froyd-ə
German. Taking joy in the suffering of others.
8. Wanderlust
Pronunciation: vunder-loost
German. A strong longing or desire towards wandering.
7. Sehnsucht
Pronunciation: sane-zookt
German. A self-destructive or addictive yearning for a time, place or thing that one can’t explain.
6. Saudade
Pronunciation: saw-the-thə
Portuguese. A feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future, although deep down you know it probably wont.
5. Doppelganger
Pronunciation: dopple-gang-ə
German. The ghostly double of a living person.
4. Weltschmerz
Pronunciation: velt-shmeartz
German. The pathological suffering felt by one who has realized that physical reality can never truly satisfy the demands of the mind. A melancholy sense of anguish about the nature of being.
3. Zeitgeist
Pronunciation: zight-gihst
German. Something that captures the spirit of the era.
2. Ad Hominem
Pronunciation: add om-in-im
Latin. Replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking the person who made it, and not what he said.
1. Déjà vu
Pronunciation: day-zha voo
French. The sense of having already seen or hear something being experienced for the first time.
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Thumbs up if you learned 8 out of 10 of these from being in CAL, where sophomores threw them around to look cool.
Robert Beard's 100 Most Beautiful Words in English via reddit
Another list from Altalang.
The Meaning of Tingo (Amazon link) -- I was able to find a copy on library.nu. A sample from another book in the series, Toujours Tingo on The Telegraph. Lol "layogenic". Our claim to fame.