pingas

May refer to:
• another slang for ping-pong
• plural form of “pinga,” which can be a slang for a baby’s pacifier
• a spiral or spring on the wall that prevents the doorknob from touching it (mainly used in the US)
• any of a pair of pins or prongs on an electric plug

Me: “Anyone wanna play pingas?”
Ava: “Yeah. That’s my favorite sport.”

by bluestinger66 April 30, 2024

laguz

The twentieth letter of the futhark alphabet

Pronunciation of laguz: LAH˙gooz
Letter sound: l
Appearance: ᛚ
Meaning: water, lake
Related words: laukaz (meaning leek), logr (meaning water, sea)

by bluestinger66 December 20, 2023

Cogito, ergo sum

English translation of “I think, therefore I am”

René Descartes, the founder of rationalism, said the famous statement, “Cogito, ergo sum.”

by bluestinger66 April 13, 2023

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The best word for speed-typing

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by bluestinger66 August 04, 2022

tenten

A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced

Some of the consonants in Japanese can be hardened by adding “grammatical markers” called “tenten” and “maru” in Japanese. They are added to the hiragana/katakana characters. The tenten look a bit like speech marks, and maru is a circle.

by bluestinger66 January 23, 2023

noodlesaurus

A dinosaur that eats noodles

Have you ever thought of how a noodlesaurus might look like? Actually, there are about 1,000 of them on the whole planet. A noodlesaurus looks like a bird with a long neck and a long tail, and has webbed feet so that it can swim in the water.

by bluestinger66 April 15, 2023

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Hey, guess what. I just came up with an excellent thing to type into Google. It’s aazzbbyyccxxddwweevvffuuggtthhssiirrjjqqkkpplloommnn.

by bluestinger66 October 24, 2022