Lypophrenia
(noun): a vague feeling of sadnesss seemingly without cause.
I’m so glad there’s a word for it!
I like it; it sounds so much more romantic than depression.
(Source: floatingswans)
Ten Unexpected Collective Nouns
- rout • a rout of wolves
- clowder • a clowder of cats
- descension • a descension of woodpeckers
- disworship • a disworship of Scots
- mute • a mute of hounds
- raft • a raft of ducks
- unbrewing • an unbrewing of carvers
- neverthriving • a neverthriving of jugglers
- drunkenship • a drunkenship of cobblers
- shrewdness • a shrewdness of apes
Ian McEwan rather surprised me when I asked him about “like,” telling me that “it can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that’s full of parody and speculation.
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Whether it’s okay or not, I still say “like” far too often. |
