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Aistlaţervièllîmļ, for example, is the term for “a situation where one lets a normally unavailable opportunity pass by because it is not seen as being the optimal instance or form of that opportunity, despite the likelihood that such an optimal instance/form of the opportunity will likely never come (e.g., letting a bottle of expensive wine go past its prime because one can never decide when would be the optimal time to drink it; or letting slip by an opportunity for true love because one hopes someone even ‘better’ may come along.)” ~Toki Pona, The Atlantic
John Quijada is the best. He has a number of words like this; my favorite is in an excerpt from the New Yorker article by Josh Foer:
“Well, no language, as far as I know, has a single word for that chin-stroking moment you get, often accompanied by a frown on your face, when someone expresses an idea that you’ve never thought of and you have a moment of suddenly seeing possibilities you never saw before.” He paused, as if leafing through a mental dictionary. “In Ithkuil, it’s ašţal.” ~Utopian for Beginners, The New Yorker (If you're curious, ašţal is more or less pronounced "ashthal.")
The article is well worth reading and rereading: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners
John Quijada is the best. He has a number of words like this; my favorite is in an excerpt from the New Yorker article by Josh Foer:
“Well, no language, as far as I know, has a single word for that chin-stroking moment you get, often accompanied by a frown on your face, when someone expresses an idea that you’ve never thought of and you have a moment of suddenly seeing possibilities you never saw before.” He paused, as if leafing through a mental dictionary. “In Ithkuil, it’s ašţal.” ~Utopian for Beginners, The New Yorker (If you're curious, ašţal is more or less pronounced "ashthal.")
The article is well worth reading and rereading: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners
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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-mystery-photo-haunting-reddit-appears-to-be-image-recognition-gone-very-weird
Don't judge by the cover picture, this article is by far the coolest thing I've seen all month.
Don't judge by the cover picture, this article is by far the coolest thing I've seen all month.
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Whoo! I finished A Storm of Swords this morning. Those last two chapters: wow! Moving onto A Feast for Crows, and then I'm probably going to hold off on the series until I can buy A Dance with Dragons in October or so.
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"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world." ~Power Nap Comic
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Hey +Joe Kowalski, they cracked the Voynich Manuscript! Totally for srs.
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Today's photo is spectacular!
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My Reader feeds have taken a strong turn to the right and I could really use some leftist news, please. Seriously guys, don't you read any reliable liberal, Marxist, socialist, mutualist, etc., news?! =/
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