🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

My Dearest Sinophobes:

Your knee-jerk downvoting of anything that features any hint of Chinese content doesn’t hurt my feelings. It just makes me point an laugh, Nelson Muntz style as you demonstrate time and again just how weak American snowflake culture really is.

Hugs & Kisses, 张殿李

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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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    • 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