Serious or irreverent welcome

    • cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than “sky blue”
    • gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such … well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
    • charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
    • the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
    • nubivagant is a word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
    • niggardly is another word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
    • frippery is just fun to say

    I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported “Schadenfreude”:

    • Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for ‘a punchable face’
    • Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who’s done something cringe
    • Weltschmerz is a word I’ll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age

    There’s also a Chinese word I’d like to bring into English and make common:

    • 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta “san gwun”, means literally “three views”, and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals