Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news
ね (ne).
Because it’s a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.
そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn’t it.
に！に！に！
How do you feel about the Canadian “eh?” or the British “innit?”
I will now read every Japanese sentence ending in ね as “innit?”
I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.
I’m a fan of the British “yhu-no”
I never liked the Glaswegian “but”. Silly way to end a sentence but
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Sono*
あああああああああ！！！
Fixed.
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
We use it up here as a form of punctuation, if you can find it check out Bowser and Blue: Use of Fuck in Canada
Asinine. It’s a perfect descriptor and it’s succinct.
Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for “stuff”
Kumquat
It sounds funny and it’s fun to say.
Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.
Detritus
Hullabaloo
Fracas
Widdershins
Ideological
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Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.
Lackadaisical.
Entreat - verb - ask someone earnestly and anxiously to do something
It’s a handy word that kind of combines “pleading” and “asking”. It’s a bummer it fell out of style because I can think of many scenarios where it would fit perfectly.
I entreat that we bring this word back
Smithereens, because I’ve been playing overwatch and I play as soldier 76 a lot. He’s such a funny character.
The way he says “I’m goin in!” cracks me up.
Serendipitous. just fun to say
Koselig, the Norwegian word for cozy that is also a reflexive verb.
English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus
French word: hippopotame
Moist
Yes, my fav too, it has such fun uses, as in, that muffin is so moist. just drag out the oi a little. The fact so many dislike the word prolly helps
