Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
ね (ne).
Because it’s a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.
そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn’t it.に!に!に!
How do you feel about the Canadian “eh?” or the British “innit?”
I will now read every Japanese sentence ending in ね as “innit?”
I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.
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I’m a fan of the British “yhu-no”
I never liked the Glaswegian “but”. Silly way to end a sentence but
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
We use it up here as a form of punctuation, if you can find it check out Bowser and Blue: Use of Fuck in Canada
Kumquat
It sounds funny and it’s fun to say.
“optimal frustration” (one single word in several languages that aren’t English)
Something is too easy? Easily bored.
Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.
Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.
Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including “y”.
floccinaucinihilipilification
Ah, yes, the state or being of believing in NOTHING
Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means
It meant my Dad never played Scrabble with my mom ever again, that’s what it meant.
Across two Triple Word tiles, no less.
I think it means like a person is taking something that is foolish or misguided far to seriously.
Yes :) , it looks that it takes its roots to Don Quixote (english is not my first language but come on, Don Quixote I could have remembered that)
I means acting in a manner that’s hard to understand.
ℹ️ “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical”
Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for “stuff”
Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.
bubble
Smithereens, because I’ve been playing overwatch and I play as soldier 76 a lot. He’s such a funny character.
The way he says “I’m goin in!” cracks me up.
Serendipitous. just fun to say
Someone already took cattywampus, so I guess I’ll go with ennui or petrichor.
Bonus: triskaidekaphobia.
(Intense fear of the number 13.)
Thanks MTG.
Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes
Onomatopoeia, it’s a fun word on it’s own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.