Rare English Words

Epoch -- a particular period of time in history or a person’s life

Intransigent -- refusing to agree or compromise

Beamish -- bright, cheerful, optimistic

Insouciant -- free from worry, concern, or anxiety

Veridical -- truthful

Effulgent -- shining forth brilliantly; radiant

Venetus -- having the color of the deep blue sea

Orphic -- mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding

Eldritch -- eerie; weird; spooky

Esoteric -- intended for or likely to be understood by only a select few; private; secret

Rout -- to howl as the wind; make a roaring noise

Aeonian -- eternal; everlasting

Verendus -- to be feared; worthy of reverence; giving an appearance of aged goodness

Being multilingual is constantly being confronted with the fact that you don’t know a basic word in one of the languages you speak.

Yesterday, while returning from the store, I realized I couldn’t remember the English word for the object I had just bought. This object may have been one of the first English words I learned in school and yet I couldn’t remember it no matter how hard I tried. The best I came up with was ‘tubular adhesive’. I had bought a glue stick.

they don't want to you to know about this but you can turn one plant into many plants by drying and storing its seeds

tragic to me that “rarity” & “pristine” aren’t more common as virtue-type names.

they don’t even have listings on nameberry, only a couple forum posts where they’re shut down & told they would work better as middle names.

in 2021 there were just 7 girls named pristine & 10 named rarity. source. they’d have only a 1-2% chance of ever encountering someone else with that name in their lifetimes. rare indeed!

For requests, could you maybe draw Lanolin the Sheep from the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics in the scenario of this base?

She's such a cutie in this base!

(Also I will always thank the Sonic franchise for teaching me very rare English words, I was today years old when I learned lanolin is actually a wool grease/wax)

such love for "you're begging for tissues, all you get is confetti" like, you're in need of something so simple but you're given this ineffectual thing that can't actually help you at all. it just reads as your needs are forgotten or minimised to their smallest possible point and if that isn't being treated seriously then it's mocked or can be dealt with by something small. in line with the song, your nose is bleeding and the best thing for this is tissues, but all you have is confetti, just this little thing that really isn't going to help whatsoever but it's all the help you're gonna get. And the way this comes just after "but [your friends are] all bloodsucking vampires", just adds bc it's like, well they're getting something out of your struggles but you, it's safe to say, are not having a good time. it gives this impression of people taking joy in your suffering but acting as though they aren't or are doing the absolute barest minimum in giving something that might help but, in reality, doesn't, if anything makes it worse, emotionally-speaking.

and maybe it's just me, but the whole thing feels very defeated. like whoever the character of the song is, has just been putting up with all sorts of crap for however long and is just exhausted by it all, but cover it all up "wave hello 'cause nothing's wrong" and take their "heart off of their sleeve" and just act carefree and like everything's okay when nothing is, just bury it all, they don't "get tragic" anymore (perhaps suggesting that they, along with taking their heart off their sleeve, they don't show any of their emotions anymore)

. again, maybe it's me, but "i'm gonna die before you, it's the first race that i'll win" doesn't inspire a particularly hopeful ending and maybe that ties in with being carefree and "hectic", suddenly - people who know it'll be over soon tend feel okay about it, without getting too deep into it right here right now.

maybe, the whole lot reads as a bullying narrative. talking about giving the kids "something to shout back / as the books fall out of my rucksack" and not being "everything to everyone", by trying to please everyone you please no one, so that type of people-pleasing behaviour never worked out for our character, and just resulted in, at least, teasing. "I don't take my phone off silent anymore" could suggest, if you follow this theme, that they don't want to see what people are sending them or saying to them, so you could call them but they probably won't see it or notice. And then, of course, "while your friends sing happy birthday / but they're all bloodsucking vampires" suggests fake friends and people who turn their backs when you're in need, when you'd give them your time and energy and care - they act like they care, shallow things like singing happy birthday, but won't actually help when it's needed, like our character's nosebleed for which they 'beg' for tissue, but all they get is confetti. (and the word beg suggests that they're really trying to get what they need, but to no avail, so they just have to make do with what they can get their hands on)

anyway. I don't know how much or how little sense any of this makes. all I know is all you get is confetti is an excellent song that has me in a chokehold (despite only being out for not even 5 hours at this point) and it deserves to be heard and read into and loved.

hi! I saw your “healing light” story (I loved it btw) and found your interpretation of the purple light really interesting! I’ve been wondering what it was - given that purple is the color of the upgraded telekinesis and butterfly charmer emotes, as well as the purple stream of light that connects us to mantas. My original thought was that it might be darkness (given that it makes it night and looks a bit similar to a darkstone diamond) (which would also place the red light as sort of a light element) or that it might represent memory (as the hint says “hoards ancient secrets). So I’d be curious to hear more of your thoughts on it! Do you have theories for all the lights, or just orange and purple?

Oh yes! I have so many theories as well as things I have basically just made up to make sense of how the world of Sky used to be. I think many different headcanons could be true since we know so little, but personally I don't really care if something is actually true or not if it's interesting.

But anyway my thoughts on colored lights!

I am using them to basically explain the magic system of Sky, (because that's what it is, magic). My headcannon is that (most) living things in the world of Sky have an inner light, that's basically their life force. It is possible to learn to control this inner light for different purposes and harvest the power of colored lights.

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Here is what each colored light represents for me:

Cyan light - AIR ~antigravity, weightlessness, air currents, wind paths

Red Light - DARKNESS ~consume/release, ability to absorb power from surroundings as well as from other creatures, krill's light, darkstone, the basic principle behind power crystal technology (This is the one I have thought about most and I have many fascinating ideas about it.)

Orange Light - FIRE ~healing, life

Blue Light - WATER - purifying, bubbles, snow

Purple Light - MIND ~ levitation, telekinesis, psychic powers, altering reality

Green Light - EARTH ~mostly plants

Yellow/White Light ~"regular light", contains the potential of all the other lights (just like in reality white light contains all the waveleghts)

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Like you can see I don't associate Purple Light with the darkness, for me all that falls under the Red Light which (quoting the Enchantment quests) "can be found where darkness prevails". I honestly never even considered making any connections between Purple Light and the darkness 🤔 Mostly I think there are two reasons for that:

By "the darkness" I don't mean just any absence of light. I think of the darkness more like a force of nature that's opposite to The Light(/Megabird) and I mostly use it in reference to pollution and corrupted things like dark crabs and krill.

Even if the Purple Light quest turns the Forgotten Ark into night after doing the Enchantment quest, it doesn't make the area dark, quite the opposite it fills it with moonlight that comes through the cloud cover and makes it actually pretty bright.

But you are of course free to headcanon things differently! :) Just like I said in the beginning we know very little about the world of Sky for sure and my headcanons also change when I think of something better/more fitting

what is your first wordle guess word 👀

GG: hi guys!!! i wanted to come on here and wish everybody here a merry christmas and a happy holiday season

GG: hehehe bec wishes you all a merry christmas too!!!

GG: oh!! you guys need to see this

GG: dave got me this a while ago! he says it makes me 100 times cooler because it's ironic and funny but i think he's the coolest!!

GG: i sent him and all my other friends some gifts this year, they all already got theirs!! mail takes forever to run from here so i always ship stuff really early

GG: i know they’ll love what i got them!!! i’ve already seen their reactions in the clouds

GG: not that you guys would really know about that!! i’ll explain later ><

GG: for now i just want to enjoy some time off!! that was my last prediction of the year, so now i get to relax with bec and my grandpa! though.. he’s not really one for the holidays!! he’s always so straight-faced, even during this time of year :/

GG: but maybe this time i’ll finally get him in the holiday spirit!! :D

GG: anyways i hope you all have a very merry christmas, and a happy new year!!!

i find it soo intriguing to look at threads of japanese people learning english and discussing confusing grammatical rules because it really is the same thing as what english speakers learning japanese do and talk about. like for as many pages as i had to read to actually understand the difference between は and が i just read a thread in japanese where someone was so confused about why its “i ate some bread” and not “i ate a bread”. like its so interesting to think about things in english that feel so natural to me

It was clear that he was in the throes of some vexatious problem.

Vexatious, according to the oxford dictionary: difficult to deal with and causing a lot of anger, worry, or argument

every day i find new bruises

Holy cow.

TIL the word for how a word or a name is pronounced is written as "pronunciation". I really thought it was "pronounciation".

Pro-Nun. Well I love Arknights Specter.

That reminds me some years ago I was absolutely bamboozled by "similar" & "available", I thought those were written as "similiar" & "avaible" .

My life is a lie.. all this from being curious on how to pronounce "Berrien County Jail".

english has a perfectly good word for shinkansen (bullet train) and yet no english speakers here seem to use it they literally all just say shinkansen

WORDS FOR KILLING DIFFERENT PEOPLE

If you are into crime documentaries and such, you might find this interesting. If this topic makes you uncomfortable, please ignore this and move on. :)

Amicide: Murder of a friend

Episcopicide: Killing of bishops

Filicide: Killing of one's own child

Fraticide: Killing one's brother

Gynaecide: Killing of women

Mariticide: Killing or killer of one's husband

Neonaticide: Killing or killer of a newborn infant

Parenticide: Killing or killer of one's parents

Parricide: Killing of parents

(With the last 2,

one is killing your parents or someone killing your parents, the other is killing parents, in general. Just thought I'd clear that up)

☆for the "im not american" ask game. 10

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

TEEHEES it's funny, i don't think we have a swear word BUT we do have swear phrases like 'KEPALA BOTAK BAPAK HANG LA' which means ' on your father's bald ass head, la!! ' and so on and so forth teehees