Month: October 2021

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This week’s questions (and their explanatory introductions) are inspired by this Mental Floss article about words in other languages without English equivalents.

1. Iktsuarpok is Inuit for that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet. Who last invoked iktsuarpok in you?
2. Georgians call it shemomedjamo when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it. When did you memorably shemomedjamo?
3. Zhaghzhagh is Persian for the chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. When were you last so cold (or so enraged) you experienced zhaghzhagh?
4. A bilita mpash in Bantu is the opposite of a nightmare: an amazing dream. Whenever a dream question shows up in memes, half the respondents say they don’t remember their dreams, but here we go anyway. What is one bilita mpash you remember?
5. In Thailand, the feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them is greng-jai. When did you recently resist greng-jai and ask someone anyway?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be safe and LAGOM!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What recently made you proudest of yourself?
2. Whom do you envy?
3. When did you most recently express wrath?
4. What do you eat when you are too slothful to prepare something or to get takeout?
5. What or whom do you lust for?

Shout-out to my undergrad Medieval literature professor, the late David Miller, for the title acronym. Thanks for participating, and have a naughty-but-safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Who needs you?
2. Who runs to you?
3. Who forgets you?
4. Who keeps you hangin’ on?
5. Who’s watching you?

Thanks for sending me, and have a lovely, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What do you expect to do syrup-titiously in the coming weeks?
2. What did you ketchup on this week, or ketchup with?
3. What was the occasion the last time you enjoyed dressing up?
4. What television series did you most recently watch with great relish?
5. When did someone most recently shoyu how to do something?

Thanks for participating, and mayo have a wonderful, safe weekend! There are still a lot of people blogging out there, but aioli have eyes for yours!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s your favorite weapon in a movie?
2. What’s your favorite car in a movie?
3. What’s your favorite cat or dog in a movie?
4. Who’s your favorite sidekick in a movie?
5. What’s your favorite painting or sculpture in a movie?

Thanks for participating, and have a delicious, safe weekend!