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Darshaglot
1. A polyglot (person fluent across multiple standard written/spoken known languages) who also has an innate ability to perceive, translate, and communicate across a broad spectrum of diverse non-verbal systems.
2. Each Darshaglot's gifts will vary, but known systems include the language of music, the language of flowers, the language of plants and gardens, the language of design, human body language, the language of animals (pets and non-pets), the Love Languages. Individuals that have synesthesia would often be considered Darshaglots.
3. A Darshaglot is gifted with the ability to translate both the unspoken and spoken, and in doing so, elevates communication abilities as well as knowledge creation and acquisition into a single, interconnected mother tongue.
4. Etymology: Darshana (Sanskrit for "system of seeing/vision") + Glot (Greek for "tongue/speaker"). The Meaning: A person who speaks through multiple philosophical frameworks. The Sanskrit word Darshana implies a "holy sight" or a deep internal shift in how one perceives reality, thus, a Darshaglot doesn't just translate words. A Darshaglot translates the very "vision" of a thing—whether that vision is expressed through a piano concerto or the arrangement of a bouquet.
5. The energy of this level of communication harkens back to something ancient, spiritual, and deeply perceptive.
2. Each Darshaglot's gifts will vary, but known systems include the language of music, the language of flowers, the language of plants and gardens, the language of design, human body language, the language of animals (pets and non-pets), the Love Languages. Individuals that have synesthesia would often be considered Darshaglots.
3. A Darshaglot is gifted with the ability to translate both the unspoken and spoken, and in doing so, elevates communication abilities as well as knowledge creation and acquisition into a single, interconnected mother tongue.
4. Etymology: Darshana (Sanskrit for "system of seeing/vision") + Glot (Greek for "tongue/speaker"). The Meaning: A person who speaks through multiple philosophical frameworks. The Sanskrit word Darshana implies a "holy sight" or a deep internal shift in how one perceives reality, thus, a Darshaglot doesn't just translate words. A Darshaglot translates the very "vision" of a thing—whether that vision is expressed through a piano concerto or the arrangement of a bouquet.
5. The energy of this level of communication harkens back to something ancient, spiritual, and deeply perceptive.
Everyone knew there was something special about Maya. It was more than her knack for languages (she spoke six before she was 10). She seemed to see and perceive a subscript to all existence—even silence—that no one else seemed to even know was there. Then one day she told us, "I'm a Darshaglot," and explained it. "Everything is like a language," she said. "It's all telling me a story."
Darshaglot by ThisWriterWrites April 23, 2026
Smochină Smooch Scale
First-known documented scale by an Eastern Bloc author (Nichita Smochină of Moldavia) created for men and women courting one another to rate flirting and kissing on a scale of 1 to 9 (Communist belief did not allow for a 10). The original scale was published in 1930 by Smochină's in the anthology, Cunoștințe Utile ("Useful Knowledge").
As the story goes, Smochină was in Paris at the time, and met a young woman who simply could not flirt or kiss. When he tried to explain to his friends how poorly this woman communicated and later smooched, there was simply no language for explaining this problem. That night, Smochină created the famous Smochină Smooch Scale in one draft. Many say he was divinely inspired.
The rating for #1 took off and gained quite a bit of fame internationally. In its original form, it was "Ăsta se sărută ca o sardină rece de la Marea Neagră" (This one kisses like a cold sardine from the Black Sea.) By the time is was used in speakeasies in Chicago, it had been notably shortened to "Ca un peşte rece" (Like a cold fish).
As the story goes, Smochină was in Paris at the time, and met a young woman who simply could not flirt or kiss. When he tried to explain to his friends how poorly this woman communicated and later smooched, there was simply no language for explaining this problem. That night, Smochină created the famous Smochină Smooch Scale in one draft. Many say he was divinely inspired.
The rating for #1 took off and gained quite a bit of fame internationally. In its original form, it was "Ăsta se sărută ca o sardină rece de la Marea Neagră" (This one kisses like a cold sardine from the Black Sea.) By the time is was used in speakeasies in Chicago, it had been notably shortened to "Ca un peşte rece" (Like a cold fish).
Smochină Smooch Scale by ThisWriterWrites September 27, 2024
all over the map
all over the map by ThisWriterWrites June 2, 2018
stick together
stick together by ThisWriterWrites December 21, 2017