A girlfriend once told me I am a droll person. It sounded derogatory, so I looked it up and was relieved to see that it meant funny. But what kind of funny? Am I some kind of clown to her? I don't feel whimsical like the definition here says. It's so perplexing because there are conflicting definitions. I've interpreted it also as dry or ironic humor. So which is it? Can you tell droll humor from other types?
Japanese aesthetic vocabulary. Originally "profound or mysterious" but now mainly "intuitively sensed" and lying "beyond" art, related to "eternal loneliness".
Can anybody confirm this? I thought for the longest time that yugen meant a heightened spiritual awareness. For instance like during a deep meditation.
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gerbert commented on the word droll
A girlfriend once told me I am a droll person. It sounded derogatory, so I looked it up and was relieved to see that it meant funny. But what kind of funny? Am I some kind of clown to her? I don't feel whimsical like the definition here says. It's so perplexing because there are conflicting definitions. I've interpreted it also as dry or ironic humor. So which is it? Can you tell droll humor from other types?
December 30, 2013
gerbert commented on the word doth
thanks!
April 8, 2009
gerbert commented on the word doth
So how is it pronounced then?
April 8, 2009
gerbert commented on the word damn
Hot damn!
November 13, 2008
gerbert commented on the word mu
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: expressing a spontaneity that suggests the Buddhist ideal of detachment from self
November 3, 2008
gerbert commented on the word aware
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: originally surprise or delight, but now tinged with melancholy that may bring one to the brink of tears.
November 3, 2008
gerbert commented on the word okashii
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: delightfully humorous, maliciously witty.
November 3, 2008
gerbert commented on the word dick fingers
I saw that daily show, "dick fingers" had me laughing my ass off.
October 30, 2008
gerbert commented on the word miyabi
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: elegant and refined providing a quite, delicate pleasure
October 30, 2008
gerbert commented on the word seido
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: the inner life or essence of something expressed simply and directly, especially (for example) in a rapid ink sketch
October 30, 2008
gerbert commented on the word en
In Japanese aesthetic vocabulary: exquisite to the point of fascination.
October 30, 2008
gerbert commented on the word yugen
Japanese aesthetic vocabulary. Originally "profound or mysterious" but now mainly "intuitively sensed" and lying "beyond" art, related to "eternal loneliness".
Can anybody confirm this? I thought for the longest time that yugen meant a heightened spiritual awareness. For instance like during a deep meditation.
October 30, 2008
gerbert commented on the word phased
to do or introduce gradually: the redundancies will be phased over two years
October 29, 2008
gerbert commented on the word panties
I love the word panties. It's cute, delicate, and sort of naughty, just like the word for a woman's underwear should be.
October 22, 2008