Showing posts with label word of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word of the day. Show all posts

4.14.2009

Word(s) of the day...

At my Papa's for Easter the other day, I discovered an ancient dictionary. 2536 pages long...


An example of a beautiful old book!


This is my hand in comparison to the size of this monster!!



♥ Callah

3.31.2009

Love it.

Too funny. Watching Two and a Half Men the other day and the totally random Word of the Day I used in this post , schadenfreude, was used! Love it.

♥ Callah

2.23.2009

Something's not right...

What's wrong with this picture?

Word of the day:
hy⋅per⋅bo⋅le [hahy-pur-buh-lee]
–noun Rhetoric.

1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”


This word is SO me. I am the Queen of dramatized statements.

♥ Callah

2.17.2009

Word of the day..

schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

Schadenfreude comes from the German, from Schaden, "damage" + Freude, "joy." It is often capitalized, as it is in German.

He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
-- Will Self, How The Dead Live

thanks dictionary.com.

And, one of my fave pics taken during my travels. This is at a monastery, in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR.


♥ Callah