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captain_nemo  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What word makes you happy?

I really like saying 'phenomenal' out loud. And I've loved the Japanese word 'kintsukuroi' ever since coming across this picture





kleinbl00  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Kintsukuroi makes me happy. I am glad to have learned of this. Thank you.

My wedding ring is mokume gane. Iron and gold.

captain_nemo  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is gorgeous

hogwild  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When I say "phenomena" aloud, I can't help but immediately sing it immediately after, to the tune of:

captain_nemo  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh wow totally forgot about this haha

Cedar  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Phenomenon is definitely a word that makes me smile, but not directly... my wife and I have a terrible habit of just continuing words like that. So phenomenonenomenon or dvdvdvd. I think for her it's a mental block against these types of words where she short-circuits and gets stuck in a loop, whereas I just like doing it to be a part of something!

caelum19  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    phenomenonenomenon

I do that too! Whenever I'm saying a word and get to a point where I can't pronounce the next part, I'll just repeat the previous sound over and over again, especially if it's already repeated once.

Cumol  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have the same picture saved somewhere :)