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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I know which word I’ll be using today..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

If your job is somehow enriching someone else, spuddle every day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can't find any citation for this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Ooh I love this

Is there a community where there's daily interesting words, either from old timely English or just plain uncommon even in today's English?

That's how I learned English way back then, on top of having an awesome teacher encouraging it. She would ask the class to find a couple of words or give some weekly, have us write a couple sentences using it and she would correct us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Searching for "etymology" on Sync for Lemmy brought up two results with less than 100 subscribers each.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Logophilia was the name of the Reddit one, but the equivalent here only has one subscriber

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Good shout. I'll do that, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

On the German side of things, we have basically a "fabulous words" community, often just putting up words that are kind of neat, even if they're not particularly exotic: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks the link don't work for me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

That would be a fun community! Not sure how popular it would be though. There's TIL obviously

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

So the usage would be "I'm a bit spuddle today"? Or maybe "it's a spuddle kind of day today" or maybe "I'm just going to have to spuddle my way through this"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Well, it says it's a verb, so it'd have to be the last one...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

I was thinking "spuddling along"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

That is a great word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Describes me pretty well.