I was reading another one of those end of year life hack articles yesterday, about how changing one word can change your attitude toward obligations. The crux: instead of saying, "I have to wake up to go to work at 0600," you change it to get, "I get to wake up to go to work at … Continue reading Words & Worldviews
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Words & Phrases, 2018
When I come across an interesting word or phrase during the course of the year, I write it down. Previous years: 2017, 2016. tanquam explorator, I am wont to cross over even to the enemy’s camp—not as a deserter, but as a scout. —Epicurus heta linjen-upploppet, the hotline riot masspsykos , mass psychosis dystopian fever dream … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2018
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How do you say: 100,078,098,528,085? One hundred trillion, seventy-eight billion, ninety-eight million, five hundred twenty-eight thousand, eighty-five. —Number to Words Calculator
Words & Phrases, 2016
Every time I come across an interesting word or phrase, I add it to a yearly list. I tried making a poem using this one last year. Pointless cacophony Buddha of subterranean impulses Métro, boulot, dodo — commute, work, sleep rossignol, French cryptographers whose name became French slang for a device that picks locks. cynegetic tendencies Viktor … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2016
Words & Phrases, 2017
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, … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2017
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