Snaggletooth (Rebroadcast) - 3 January 2021
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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I Have Stolen the Anasthemia From Greek, Theathenia
i was looking for a word that means to steal, at the same time, just desperately lonely, but also absolutely revelling in your solitude. No one could come up with anything so they suggested i coin a word: am. The word i coined is dyco tilistenia, ad tyco silistenia. And i got there from am, dyconomy. Dico for dicodome. When an hage is is solitary, and when is happiness. There's no such thing as an untranslatable word. But it mightn't takebe a paragraph rather than a single word. This word is a german word, vald, valdinsem
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