A word is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. A page filled with idioms, words, and other sayings that have no English translation of the word.
A teenager or 20-something who has withdrawn from social life, often obsessed with TV and video games.
Missing someone so much it literally makes you sick. “Someonesickness” on the model of “seasickness”.
A word describing the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
A sort of happiness or contentedness felt through having everything you want in life and/or not having any looming worries. It describes a long-term feeling about one’s life situation rather than a happiness achieved through a singular outcome or situation.
To allow a lover access to one’s bed for chitchat.
Literally, ‘fun-eyes’. The eyes of a chuckling person who is up to benign mischief.
The time spent after lunch or dinner talking to the people you shared the meal with.
To look worse after a haircut.
The power of human will to change the world. Set up as an opposing force to fate or destiny. If powerful forces beyond your control are trying to force a particular outcomes, orenda is a kind of vocalised summoning of personal strength to change this.
A good opportunity wasted by staggering levels of incompetence (from multiple sources) evidenced in its implementation.
