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Friday, July 29, 2011
7 comments:
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Esteve said...
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Perhaps some Republican voters will get a little "Ilunga" (#8 at the link) by the next election and move on from these weak kneed compromisers that are supposed to be our leaders.
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7/29/11, 9:08 AM
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Anonymous said...
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1. Toska
... At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
English = blueballs
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
7/29/11, 10:39 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Not really asking you to give away trade secrets, in other words, it's a rhetorical question, but how the hell do you find stuff like the above?
I could cruise the web continuously for days and never run across this excellent piece of trivia.
jd -
7/29/11, 10:40 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I agree with Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick's disputation of the lack of translatability of Toska and add to his translation: "Socialism"
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7/29/11, 10:59 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I think Toska sounds like depression. I developed a fascination with words when I discovered the meaning of codpiece.
Tim -
7/29/11, 11:17 AM
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JMcD said...
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I love language and a favorite finding of mine was when I read that German immigrants to America using the word "ausgetzeichnet" were probably the source or the slang expression "out of sight".
The German word means "outstanding".
Kewl no? -
7/29/11, 1:04 PM
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JMcD said...
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Oops!.... ausgezeichnet
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7/29/11, 1:16 PM
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