Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

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[ourwakingsoules-deactivated2019]

a fab medievalist on twitter put me on to this and !!! {x}

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jewel words

[slumbering]

pendeloque: a drop-shaped diamond or other gem used as a pendant

toadstone: a small stone, once believed to be a jewel embedded in the head of a toad, worn as an amulet

pearlaceous: resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly

mundil: a turban ornamented with imitation job or silver embroidery

margaritiferous: producing pearls

feitsui: a pale green variety of jade, highly prized in China

kincob: India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold

caracoly: an alloy of gold, silver, and copper, used to make jewelry of inferior quality

clinquant: glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery

cacholong: 1. an opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; 2. a similar variety of opal

lecanomancy: divination by interpreting the sound or effect of an object or substance falling into a body of water. gems are commonly used

goltschut: a small ingot of gold or silver, formerly used as money in Asia

parure: a set of jewelry meant to be worn together

dactylomancy: divination by various methods using rings, such as silver or gold rings placed on the fingernails in patterns in conjunction with the planets

exornation: ornament; decoration; embellishment

oroide: an alloy of copper and zinc or tin that has a gold color, used in making inexpensive jewelry

reliquary: 1. a container to hold or display religious relics; 2. an object that sustains the memory of past people or events

ewer: a kind of widemouth pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle

tsavorite: a dark green garnet

grevillea: any of many Australian shrubs and trees in the genus of Grevillea

parterre: 1. a flowerbed, particularly an elevated one; 2. a garden with paths between such flowerbeds; 3. a part of the section of theatre seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra; 4. an apartment balcony 

carcanet: a richly decorative collar

lavalier: an item of jewelry consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace

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[boyboobs]

ramekin is such a dope ass name for a little bowl

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[knightofleo]

[humanjeff]

all the photos of him are like this, I love that this guy understood he had been born with the face of a wizard or axe murderer and just leaned fully into it

[humanjeff]

he knew EXACTLY what he was doing

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[bumblebeebats]

Top 3 ways to pronounce "worms":

• woims (old-timey New York gangster)
• wurrums (Scottish)
• weuhrms (bad French accent like the narrator from spongebob)

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[skyberia]

something so scary but so sexy about the word "hallow", particularly when it's used to mean something you can do to someone rather than something. to hallow someone, to be hallowed. and it's mostly word association i suppose but part of it to me is how close "hallow" is to "hollow". turning someone holy, emptying them out of everything that actually makes them who they are in the process. do you understand. do you feel me

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[mlarayoukai]

Girl isn't even a word to me anymore he's a friend

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

We're doing to girls what the guys did to guys

[polyphonetic]

i'd love to do to girls what guys do to guys

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[fairydrowning]

"In my culture, we know death intimately. In Arabic, the highest expression of love is the phrase "ya'aburnee" Translated "you bury me" . It means "I love you so much, I'd sooner die than bury you". It was used by mothers in our lineage who were so used to losing their young in war. In my culture, we cannot talk about love without speaking death's name"

-George Abraham, "Untitled," Published In Black Napkin Press

[fairydrowning]

Interactive: House Saints By Hala Alyan

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[metapianycist]

it is really cool that there is now an official maori word for autism, created with input from autistic maoris, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental

quote from article:

“In my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as ‘takiwatanga’, meaning ‘his or her own time and space’,” [Keri Opai] told government-funded Maori Television.

(source)

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[hedgehog-moss]

If one day you see me sitting on the ground in my little vegetable patch, looking very focused on pulling weeds, you should know that this is the tireless internal monologue that accompanies this activity:

Turnip is so good. Definitely superior to navet. Just an excellent word. English names for vegetables often fit much better. Leek! I mean it doesn’t look like a real word, all tiny English words (poke wig work jug dig blurb quirk leek) sound like Klingon to Romance language speakers who enjoy syllables, but leek is the sound of delighted surprise you make the first time you pull one of these out of the ground. Pickle is adorable. Pumpkin has the exact same dorky-cute energy as our citrouille. Spinach is a word that holds me in contempt. Even in my head I can’t pronounce it. I have tried every possible combination of sounds and never chanced upon the right one. Maybe spine and a sad German ach. If I look it up I will just forget again. I also dislike that other word for courgette. It’s a little courge so it’s a courgette! Zucchini is a clown name. Ginger, though! Such a cool, spunky word. I don’t know why we have a suffix that makes it sound like a month. As a kid I really thought gingembre should be a month—Novembre, Décembre, Gingembre. I don’t like asparagus but only because I think anglos should love themselves and shake off Latin suffixes like the rest of us did, since even native speakers seem nervous and apologetic when they have to use their plural form. They sound like they need to triple-google-check it every time, that’s no way to live. We cut our Latin cord and call it an asperge and the plural is pronounced identically so we have time to worry about real problems, like how caper berry is feminine but the word sounds deceptively masculine. Câpre. Or aromatic plants! Aromate—no one wants to hazard a gender for these words so we use the plural form at all times out of cowardice, it disgusts me.