Every time I come across an interesting word or phrase, I add it to a yearly list.
- tsundoku, leaving a book you bought unread
- cotisuelto, man who insists on leaving his shirt untucked
- iktsuarpok, repeatingly going outside to check if anyone is coming
- trepverter, perfect retort that comes to you later
- longueurs, dull and tedious, usually plural
- Rahula, hindrance
- ikigai, Japanese technique for finding your purpose in life via four questions: 1. What do you love? What are you good at?What does the world need from you? What can you get paid for?
- ptomaine, nitrous substance from putrid protein
- heterotopias — the production of shared spaces of ‘otherness’ through the disruption of the usual conventions
- Lebensreform — life reform
- technicians of midcult — creativity in the service of dominate ideologies, e.g., journalists, graphic designers, etc.
- paralipsis – a way to make an accusation or spread a rumor while skirting the consequences
- bergerie: shepherd’s cottages
- mishegoss: crazy, silliness
- two-dimensional ersatz dashboard Jesus
- 4Ds: dismiss, distort, distract, dismay
- Nijinsky of dreams, famous dancer
- gjakmarrja, Albanian revenge killing
- maskirovka, camouflage
- taranoa, watch me carefully
- hxaro partnerships, gift giving relationships
- acephalous, no formal heirarchy / governance
- witvoets, white foots
- sonzai-kan, the human presence
- non-places, Marc Augé
- a little hiccup in the psychospace of reality
- A hedged freedom
- The freedom of desolation
- Useless people on useless land
- Praise also the light and creation unfinished
- egoizing
- subvising, supervising from below
- interverify
- maquiladoras, Mexican factories
- runcible, fit for multiple purposes
- exploration of the possible
- refuseniks
- dostadning, death cleaning
- dim, desperate, or drunk
- London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial
- taphophobia, the overwhelming fear of being buried alive.
- Es tut mir sehr leid, it brings me great pain in German, also very sorry
- monks and drunks
- Ad Aster Per Alia Porci, To the stars on the wings of a pig
- animal laborans, a laboring beast
- zoi se mas, life to us
- arrière-boutique, room behind the shop
- parrēsía — to be outspoken
- silphium, lost classical herb
- okaeri nasai, welcome home
- Lover of the Strange
- Sympathizer of the Rude
- Barbarianologist of the Farthest Peripheries
- cryptids, mythical creatures
- homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man
- peripatetic, walking, Aristotelianism
- homo mimeticus
- Magen veLo Yera’e – Unseen Defender
- prosaism
- sannyasins / sannyasa: 4th stage of life
- Polanyi’s Paradox, we know more than we can say, which in modern times has morphed into the question of whether humans can maintain advantages over machines
- dysphemistic, substituting a disagreeable term for an agreeable term — fired rather than “let go”
- Malveillance, bad surveillance — a term with already bad connotations
- Dyson sphere, solar tech encapsulating a sun to power advanced civilizations
- Matrioshka brain, an artificial intelligence or computational framework powered by a Dyson sphere
- Yuppies Afuera (Spanish for “outside”)
- moishe kapoyr, oppositional
- Zos Kia Cultus, chaos magician pre-cursor
- nocebo effect, where negative expectations can start a chain of harmful events which ultimately fulfill those expectations
- colpo d’aria, a hit of air
- apophenia, meaning in randomness
- budgerigar, parakeet
- Guelo, my dad’s dad
- kodokushi, lonely death
- death doula
- etiolated, to make white and sickly, esp. plants without sun
- Todos somos hijos de la tierra: we are all children of the earth.
- cabrón: “bastard” or “dumbass”
- pinche / chingada: “fuck”
- To’on Na’atik means “We understand each other” in Mayan
- τόκος, ancient Greek, usury/offspring
- Gadji beri bimba, Dada poem of Hugo Ball with sound patterns rather than meaning. He lived to ” “to remind the world that there are people of independent minds – beyond war and nationalism – who live for different ideals.”
- maenads, female Greek followers of Dionysus
- Verfremdungseffekt, “alienation effect”
- stamukha, grounded accumulation of sea ice
- Lyapunov function, differential equation used to evaluate stability
- residual runoff of human desire
- Unblessed with beauty
- No hay que confundir la velocidad con el tocino, do not confuse speed with bacon
- virus in the system
- Okhrana, secret agents of the czar
- shtetl, a small town with a large Jewish population that used to be in Europe prior to the Holocaust.
- kyriarchy, social system based on domination, oppression, and submission
- nepreryvka, continuous work week
- presentational self
- chemolithoautotrophic, organisms that obtain necessary carbon for metabolism from bedrock
- aperçu, glimpse, clever insight, outline, general idea
- lumpen digitariat, common users, digital underclass
- Ithaa means “mother of pearl”
- kanko oto—”call and response”
- shisa kanko, point and call
- déjà vecu, feeling you’ve been in a situation you haven’t
- Déjà visité, feeling you have been somewhere you have not been
- kaze no denwa, or “phone of the wind”
- Demographic of the dumb
- There’s no way to freedom but through freedom.
- Eudaimonia – well-daemoned
- It takes a village to produce a village idiot.
- anam cara: soul friend, Celtic
- Non Sanz Droit, not without right, Shakespeare motto on heraldic crest
- lumpenproletariat: criminal underclass
- Closed Cell Restricted: solitary in Angola prison
- “W.W.T.P.D.”—What would the Panthers do?
- stigmergically, consensus social mechanism
- Prince Rupert’s drop, toughened glass beads
- Arecibo message, 1974 interstellar radio message with basicinformation about Earth
- groupuscules, a small political group, particularly of radicals
- chode, penis wider than it is long
- Weltanschauung, worldview
- ponyatiya, unwritten rule, things that are understood.
- Travail, opium unique
- Anodyne, drug to lessen pain
- inchoate, early stages
- Elmer Gantry, character in Sinclair Lewis novel parodying evangelical Christianity
- John Frum, figure associated with cargo cults
- Turducken, deboned chicken stuffed into deboned duck stuffed into deboned turkey
- Bratsky Krug, circle of brothers
- Bespredel, chaos
- Farb, historically inaccurate
- capillary electrophoresis: detecting extra terrestrial life
- apocalypticist
- a debate without data
- hipoisie, hipsterdom
- zoi se mas, life to us
- ni bheidh a leitheid ann aris: His likes will not be here again.
- Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a.k.a., Finn McCool
- Benandonner, giant
- high place phenomenon
- Stomata ga nai, “it cannot be helped”
- Pero mi existir es resistir. My existence is resistence.
- Per aspera ad astra, “through hardships to the stars.”
- Managed democracy
- …anyone who’s gone out of sane consciousness knows that a door once opened is never satisfactorily shut.
