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And PALINDROME is more properly spelled
PALINILAP
Originally Posted By: tsuwmFoFong> peevers
heh.
OP the worthless word for the day is: sonder
[perhaps related to F. sonder, to probe?]
the realization that each random passerby is living a life
as vivid and complex as your own--populated with their
own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited
craziness--an epic story that continues invisibly around
you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with
elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that
you�ll never know existed, in which you might appear
only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background,
as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted
window at dusk
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Q: do all concepts require a specific word?
Q: do all concepts require a specific word?
I think not.
Words describe but also delimit information about the world around us.
For example your question and my answer are obfusicated
because of our use of words here.
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