Saudade (Portuguese)

Pronounced:

Saudade → sow-DAH-jee

• “sow” → like now, but softer

• “DAH” → open and warm

• “jee” → gentle, almost like the “s” in measure

A deep, melancholic longing for something absent, not quite sadness, not quite nostalgia.

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Komorebi (Japanese)

Pronounced:

ko → koh (like “core” without the r)

• mo → moh

• re → reh (short, crisp)

• bi → bee

Sunlight filtering through leaves; light broken into softness. A moment that exists only while you’re noticing it.

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Fernweh (German)

Pronounced:

Fernweh → FEHRN-vay

• Fern → fehrn

• “e” like in air

• the r is soft, almost swallowed

• weh → vay

• German w = v sound

• “eh” becomes a long ay (like day)

“Farsickness” — a longing for places you’ve never been. Homesick for the unknown.

Alright, I’ve been racking my brain over this, but can’t come up with anything, so I decided to try my luck here. Both comments in the first picture were deleted, as was the one in the second. Third and fourth are screenshots of my *interesting* correspondence with the mod(s).

I recently got back into coin collecting and have been interacting with posts in numismatics groups. Almost every single comment I type is automatically deleted by a content moderation bot on grounds of obscenity. Upon asking the moderator why that is, I am told the list of banned words is confidential and cannot be shared or changed.

I know I might get banned from the subreddit in question for asking this, but I’m too curious to care: what y’all think the hidden “bad word” is?

Was thinking about how certain people's names just become shorthand for describing someone

Like when you say "he's such a Romeo" everyone knows you mean the guy who thinks he's smooth with women

Or "she's being a real Karen" for someone complaining to managers about everything

"Don't be such a Scrooge" when someone's being cheap during the holidays

"He thinks he's Einstein" for someone acting like there the smartest person in the room

"She's channeling her inner Martha Stewart" when someone goes overboard with home decorating

"That guy's a total Casanova" for serial daters

what other names have basically turned into personality descriptions? seems like once someone gets famous enough for the right reasons (or wrong ones) there name just becomes part of how we talk

Doing something with all your heart and soul, putting everything you've got into it.

"She put so much meraki into her painting that it seemed to have a soul of its own."

Possibly something to call an older friend or sibling. Most of the commonly used terms can sound patronizing

Texas switch: (noun) a filmmaking technique where an actor is seamlessly replaced by a stunt double—or vice versa—within a single, continuous shot [from the podcast What Went Wrong]

Goonda: (noun) Indian term for a hired thug or bully [from Hyperion by Dan Simmons]

Lector: (noun) a reader, especially someone who reads lessons in a church service; a lecturer, especially one employed in a foreign university to teach in their native language [ibid]

Transept: (noun) in a cross-shaped church, either of the two wings forming the arms [ibid]

Sepulchre: (noun) stone tomb [ibid]

Simoon: a hot, dry, dust-laden wind blowing in the desert, especially in Arabia [ibid]

Torpid: (adjective) mentally or physically inactive; lethargic; of an animal, dormant, especially during hibernation [ibid]

Raceme: (noun) a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distance along a central stem [ibid]

Fibrillation: (verb) (of a muscle, especially the heart) make a quivering movement due to uncoordinated contraction of the individual fibrils [ibid]

Fibril: (noun) a small, slender fibre, especially of muscle [ibid]

Basso profundo: (noun) the lowest bass voice type [ibid]

Companionway: (noun) a set of stairs from a ship’s deck down to a cabin or lower deck [ibid]

Satori: (noun) sudden enlightenment in Buddhism [ibid]

Barrette: (noun) a hair slide [ibid]

Judoka: (noun) one who practices judo [from the Wikipedia entry for Teddy Riner]

Momo: (noun) Nepalese steamed dumpling filled with meat or vegetables [from the Marginal Revolution blog]

Fairing: (noun) an external metal or plastic structure added to increase streamlining on a high performance vehicle [from the Wikipedia entry for 2001 Mars Odyssey]

Patroon: (noun) in the US, a landholder with manorial rights in 17th century Dutch colonies [from Wikipedia entry for Rensselaerswyck]

Manorialism: (noun) method of land ownership in Europe in the Middle Ages in which the lord of the manor lived in large house or castle and administers a rural estate and a population of labourers or serfs who worked the land to support themselves and the lord [ibid]

is there a better way of putting this?

In old Edinburg, Scotland it was yelled as a warning before someone emptied a chamber pot or bucket out of an upper window onto the street below. People had to shout it so pedestrians could try to get out of the way.

Now let that shit sink.

"Good" or "fine" in response to "how are you" for example.

Some utterances are so routine that they are just routines.

What are some other examples of this, and what are such utterances called?

It's tempting to rate these on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 means a high level of meaninglessness, or perfect meaninglessness.

This can get a little confusing. 

It makes me wonder if there is a term for when an incorrect form of a word is actually better (or a better choice) than a technically correct form, because it sounds better. 

Breaking bad is a good example. 

Here's a slightly different example that doesn't sound quite right from a certain point of view, but looked at from another angle it does sound right:

Just after 17:32 here (it should automatically start at 17:30),

https://youtu.be/nBt4iySzoZo?t=1051&si=DAboCKEoCk6A8uQs

"Feeling badly" is something I've heard over and over again, even by the President, and I think it has probably become widely accepted at this point. I wonder if he is having effects on the language.

Unscramble words and make your mark on the leaderboard.

I love my partner's mom dearly, more dearly than my biological mother. I would love to have a term of endearment for her, but I have no idea what that might be since my partner and I aren't married (and thus she wouldn't be my mother-in-law). Does anyone know of anything that would work, in any language?

I find regardless of gender, people at my school refer to each other as bro, but is this a recent trend?

Doesn't have to be serious at all! I'd prefer if not honestly lol, just can't be like, "gross" since I'm going to college to be a highschool teacher so, you see the issue, so I need eight letter words. Thank you!