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out of curiosity
What is your favorite word of all time, the word that fills you with bizarre, ineffable happiness whenever you get the chance to use or say it?
Mine is 'sloth,' although my favorite not-English word is Old English neorxnawong, which is the word for Paradise (as in, the Garden of Eden). Nay-orx-na-wong! Say it!
I ask this question periodically because I love words and I love it when people talk about them and enjoy them. It makes me happy and it relaxes me.
Back tonight with fic! \o/
Mine is 'sloth,' although my favorite not-English word is Old English neorxnawong, which is the word for Paradise (as in, the Garden of Eden). Nay-orx-na-wong! Say it!
I ask this question periodically because I love words and I love it when people talk about them and enjoy them. It makes me happy and it relaxes me.
Back tonight with fic! \o/
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It sounds almost like what "nostalgia" formally means (not the way most people use it now)... Originally, it was the painful longing for home experienced by soldiers fighting foreign wars, although now it means longing for some time that was, or has to be, better than the current one. But it doesn't seem to have the same poignancy.