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Nick Corrado
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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

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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.

Happy #birthday G+!

"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.

Merry Christmas!

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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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