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Kummerspeck
The German word “Kummerspeck” means excess weight one gains from emotion-related overeating. It means “grief bacon.” Another translation would be more along the lines of “boredom cookie”, but its all the same in the end (well, OK; hips).
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How New Words Are Created
http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/issues_new.html By Creating from Scratch Many of the new words added to the ever-growing lexicon of the English language are just created from scratch, and often have little or no etymological pedigree. A good example is the word dog, etymologically … Continue reading
10 classic Indianisms: ‘Doing the needful’ and more
How to fix grammatically insane phrases found in common Indian English By Daniel DMello 13 June, 2011 “Do one thing…take this piece of chalk…” We are a unique species, aren’t we? Not humans. Indians, I mean. No other race speaks … Continue reading
Faux Friendship By William Deresiewicz
"…[a] numberless multitude of people, of whom no one was close, no one was distant. …"—War and Peace "Families are gone, and friends are going the same way."—In Treatment We live at a time when friendship has become both all … Continue reading
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An Irish paradigm for Indian authors
It was only after having been to Ireland that I discovered the distinctive parallels we Indians have with the Irish. We shared a common colonial past, do have the same love and hate relationship with the British nation, faced … Continue reading
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