r/FoundWords

94 archived posts · Nov 2012 – Jul 2019

Stealing words from other languages because English isn't enough

r/FoundWords

Stealing food off of someones plate, that cozy feeling with friends on a good night, that feeling of inexplicable smallness you get when staring at the stars... Got a word from a non-english language that describes something in need of descripiton? This subreddit has the goal of expanding the english lexicon, so the main focus is on words that have a chance of being adopted. This means no 20 syllable words (unless you can change it to make it work)! Whorfianists and everyone else welcome!

Created Nov 28, 2012 · restricted

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