Latest notable terms from this and last week’s Slate Culture Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page, which keeps a running collection of the terms from this series of posts).
- alternadad [SM, CG05-19-10]
- cowl [SM, CG05-19-10]
- detritus [DS, CG05-19-10]
- dint [DS, CG05-19-10]
- funereal [SM, CG05-19-10]
- joie de vivre [JT, CG05-19-10]
- lugubrious [SM, DS, CG05-19-10]
- mimetic fallacy [SM, CG05-19-10]
- précis [SM, CG05-19-10]
- proselyte [SM, CG05-19-10]
- rather (pronounced “rahh-ther”) [SM, CG05-19-10]
- sanguine [JT,DS, CG05-19-10]
- sprezzatura [DS, CG05-19-10]
- spriteliness [JT, CG05-19-10]