Category Archives: Miscellany
Foreign Words That Should be Part of English
microondas – Spanish for “microwave.” This one needs little explanation, really. Don’t you just wish you could tell your friend you’re about to go warm up your burrito in the microondas? Props also go to the Spanish paloma, “dove.” They know how to make their language poetical-sounding.
deinos – Ancient Greek. As in dinosaur. It’s a slippery thing to pin down what this word means, though. The meanings shade from “terrible” to “great” to something that’s roughly equivalent to the modern English “awesome.” When something is so cool it scares the crap out of you, it’s deinos.
quamquam – Latin. Actually I have no clue what this means, but it sounds great.
arigato – Japanese for “thank you.” English’s “thank you” is adequate for its purpose, but it just doesn’t convey the same depth of gratitude that the Japanese does. Try watching an anime sometime and you’ll see what I mean. When somebody looks another person in the eye and says arigato, you can tell they mean it.
Yeah! All hail the maize and blue!
According to this article here, Carleton made it onto the top 10 list of schools most loved by their alumni.
Thy colors ever dearest, thy children ever true! Ba da da da da da DA da… da da, da da, da da…
We Are the Robot Pirates
No explanation is needed.
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Now This is Just Getting Silly…
Guess what time it is?
ITTY BITTY OCTOPUS!
ITTY BITTY OCTOPUS!
AAAAAH!
And I must give credit where credit is due. Check out the incredible work of Ursula Vernon.
Another Itty Bitty Octopus
The Adorability
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Sign That You are a Nerd #34
When you write notes to yourself on Post-its, you use a little triangle to stand for the word “change.”
And Now for Some Utter Nonsense
Amborella! Ella! Ella! Ella! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh!