Around the fifth century, theGothswere a tribe that helped defeat the Roman Empire; by the 1500s,gothicmeant "barbaric" and was used to insult a new style of architecture; that architecture became associated with the medieval age; ideas of medieval darkness and mystery inspiredgothic fictionof ...
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0 That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes u...
Each of us having our first kids in between writing the song, Peter moving across the country halfway though and things finally coming together at the end of last year. Who are the other artists/musicians on this EP that you would like to shout out? Dan Arlien and Boom Service for gett...
We all rely on crutch words when speaking and writing. But did you know that these unnecessary crutch words are hobbling your writing?
And we lacked no ingenuity in the words we used to describe the journey. Topics Social Good X/Twitter Identities Jess Joho Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in the digital age, from sex and relationship to weed and all media (tv, games, film, the web). ...
(or even remotely recent). Furthermore, the addition of a word to the dictionary is not an endorsement, but rather a documentation of its use in the real world. Our mission is to be descriptive—we work to describe and document language as it is really used (not just how we or others...
Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism. BDSM A catch-all term for a broad array of sexual practices that is used to describe the activities of the leather community. Bear A bear is a larger and often hairier man who projects an image of rugged masculinity...
THE WORD“demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are some 800,000 posts on TikTok with the tag #demure. Youngsters today are using the word with lashings of irony, invoking it to describe everything from Saturn to sun...
飒isoriginallyused todescribethe sound wind makes. In a moderncontext, it means someone who isattractive, neat and determined, especially women. The wordgrabs everyone's attention, for about half of the front-line doctors and more than ...
Although the words meretricious and garish have much in common, meretricious stresses falsity and may describe a tawdry show that beckons with a false allure or promise. a meretricious wasteland of casinos and bars When could tawdry be used to replace garish? While in some cases nearly identica...