April 2011
19 posts
“As the room came into view, Harry slipped a few stairs in shock. It was packed,...”
– Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 30- The Sacking of Severus Snape. (via quickquotesquill)
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What You Own - Rent Movie...
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and reserved....
Words that Don't Exist in the English Language
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in...
Two Random facts
In June 2008, at the U. S. Olympics trials in Eugene, Oregon, sprinter Tyson Gay won the 100-meter event. OneNewsNow.com- a news service run by the conservative American Family Association- reported the story, but because they used computerized word-replacement filters that substitute “family-friendly” words for ones they find objectionable, readers were told that the race was won by...
Things Disney Taught Me....
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely...”
– C.S. Lewis
Anyone who’s ever had to defend the Harry Potter series will enjoy this.
(via benkling)
